Well, the jury split the baby. Atodaso.
In case you missed our coverage of the Haxhiaj trial and its profound implications for this city’s already-rotten-enough political culture, read the latest here.
And you can watch pretty much the entire trial via a series of videos I put up on YouTube—Haxhiaj trial playlist—a painstaking and frustrating endeavor, but worth it, as the cops have rarely told on themselves so hard.
In today’s show we go over some choice clips from prosecutor Steven Gagne’s arguments and Shauna McGuirk’s ummmmm inconsistent testimony. Her whole testimony is worth a watch.
Here’s Etel outside the courthouse afterwards as well, in case you missed that.
Thomas Duffy statement (We’re not dignifying it with a link, you get no clicks from us ya dickhole dingus)
“Last November city residents sent a strong message in our local election and today Etel Haxhiaj was convicted by a jury of her peers for assault and battery on a Worcester police officer.
We can never allow or tolerate violence of any kind to be directed at any member of law enforcement.. In recent days we have seen multiple officers shot in Spencer and Fall River, we continue to pray for their recovery. We ask that God always protect members of law enforcement as they perform this dangerous job. I want to thank the overwhelming majority of citizens of this city who show support for our officers as they perform a difficult and dangerous job daily.”
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RIP “Royster” and the eight other fishery workers MA lost in January. Fishing is an actually dangerous job. Part One in a maybe ongoing series of “Jobs That Are Statistically More Dangerous Than Being A Cop”. It’s been a very deadly start to the year for them, and they actually do a job that makes our lives better.
The TP USA Halftime Show was way worse than I could’ve even imagined. I apologize for maligning Florida-Georgia line last week. It’s so much darker and dumber.
Here’s the song Lee Brice performed called “Country Nowadays”
Lyrics:
“I just want to catch my fish, drive my truck, drink my beer / And not wake up to all this stuff I don’t want to hear / Like the same kind of gun I hunt with / Just killed another man / Only thing mine ever shot was / Deer from my deer stand.
I just want to cut my grass, feed my dogs, wear my boots / Not turn the TV on, sit and watch the evening news / Be told if I tell my own daughter that little boys ain’t little girls / I’d be up the creek in hot water in this cancel-your ass-world.
Chorus:
It ain’t easy being country / In this country nowadays / The direction the finger’s pointing / When everything goes up in flames / Saying I’m some right-wing devil / Because I was down South Jesus raised / It ain’t easy being country / In this country nowadays.
Intro by Bill Shaner 2.16.26
Outro: Pigs Theory” by Jayy Grams
