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There are so many underlying issues here. Race. Politics. Police conduct. Private prisons. Even NSA-level surveillance (the obvious efforts to geolocation his phone prior to the arrest). Demonetization of felons. Just about everything that is wrong in the US landed on this guy. Everyone needs a lawyer. You don't have to pay them, but memorize their name/number for that day you find the world landing on your head.

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> Demonetization of felons

Do you mean disenfranchisement?

I think he means "demonization" but it's a really interesting typo.

That makes a lot more sense. I was really confused and wondering if we had veered off into YouTube territory. Although, there is still an argument to be had about felons are monetized because private prisons make money off of it. Hmm...

Stupid work computer is always correcting my spelling without me noticing. Back at home now on a machine that actually works (linux).

The process of taking dollar-valued felons into the human sphere is truly demonizing.

Probably meant something akin to 'demon-ization'.

Felons have trouble getting jobs. Demonetization may have been the intended word.

That would assume felons were ever "monetized".

I mean, plenty are (of the Wall Street kind), but we're far from demonetizing them.

The private prison system is, in many cases, state-sanctioned slavery. Prisoners are very definitely monetized — and not just by the $15/minute phone calls to their loved ones.

Private prisons monetize prisoners, so releasing someone is demonetization. (I joke ... sort of.)

Prisoners are monetized via slave labor.

Or it could have been demonetization of florins.

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