[your_username]

The FBI is all kind of hanky. This just affirms my experience.

In my experience, they don't do their due diligence of a victim's reporting: they take what they say at face value if it's a corporation. Multi-million dollar loss? Couldn't have possibly been calculated in bad faith.

It was.

[Clubber]

There's a lot of videos on police encounters where this very thing happens. Not only that, it's amazing how many times the callers embellish what happened to make their case stronger. At least in these videos, the police don't bother to do any type of investigation. I can see how easy it is to weaponize police.

The government isn't some omniscient, omnipotent entity. It's made of people with all the flaws of regular people. The only difference is they have legal ass coverage in the form of qualified immunity, they investigate themselves, they know the system and how to hide their mistakes, and they protect their own. We should consider putting the beast on a diet.

[PragmaticPulp]

> Couldn't have possibly been calculated in bad faith.

> It was.

Lying to the FBI is a serious crime. There’s no way the corporate counsel from Amazon would just allow some “bad faith” calculations to be used to give a false story to the FBI.

Generally, these criminal cases involve multiple employees at the company. The story doesn’t say who else was arrested as part of the investigation or what their outcome was. The FBI can prefer to target the people at the center of a crime.

[brians]

It has happened. Repeatedly. Sometimes at the FBI’s instigation: look at the E911 memo stuff, where FBI pushed AT&T to count the cash value of any computer accessed as damage!

[Jaepa]

You don't have to lie for a bad faith argument.

> Two officers arrived and located the suspect, a male believed to be in his 40s, in his car. He was order to step from his car. After he got out, he physically resisted officers. Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress. Officers called for an ambulance. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center by ambulance where he died a short time later.

The above is part of the original police report of George Floyd's death. I would say it was made in bad faith, but there is little there that is an outright lie.

[dionian]

Funny thing is, the FBI lying to you is not only legal, it's par for the course.

[your_username]

The case I'm referring to didn't involve Amazon.

[zapataband1]

Cops serve property owners first and foremost.

[metalliqaz]

Hah, I invite you to say the same after you've tried to get them to do anything about a residential break-in or vandalism.

Like everything else they orbit centers of power and serve those structures. There has to be real wealth involved to get 'service'

[zapataband1]

Yeah good point, fewer than half of crimes reported, fewer than half of those solved