Conservatives love SWATing

Punching down is like level 0 for them though. But I still agree with you.

No. George Floyd was murdered because an asshole cop thought he could choke him out with impunity

That is some dark shit to do to someone. The hardest hit people, that are usually mentally unstable, being setup. Fuck'd up

crimes against fellow Americans

FTFY

Strangely enough, the secret service covers stolen and counterfeit money

The whole thing stinks as schoolboy level revenge fantasy. I doubt there's truth to it.

Prop money has specific laws and guidelines and is very easily identifiable and therefore do not count as counterfeit.

If a $5 bill does find its way in the economy no one gets arrested probably, someone just made a stupid trade. Otherwise half the store owners would be in jail when attempting to deposit money that happens to contain a fake note here and there.

Uhm that's why the secret service was notified.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter25&edition=prelim

Yes

The Secret Service was created to investigate counterfeiting. The president stuff came later.

https://www.secretservice.gov/investigations

Counterfeiting of United States currency, bonds, checks, and other financial obligations and securities. Distributing or passing of counterfeited, forged, or altered U.S. currency and other financial obligations and securities. Criminals sometimes use online forums to sell bulk counterfeited U.S. or foreign currency.

Well their original charter was to investigate counterfeiting. The presidential protection thing was kind of an add-on. But my impression was that the original function was moved to a different agency and the USSS, originally under the treasury department, moved to Homeland Security. So I don’t know why they would have anything to with this. Unless I remembered that wrong.

They basically handle counterfeit money cases, so people spending counterfeit money provided by this asshole would have been investigated by the secret service.

Those cannot be reasonably mistaken for real currency. Carefully so, even.

This person allegedly (from his own mouth) intentionally passed off paper convincing enough to be used in films, as real currency, to people with a high likelihood of mental illness, in the express desire to trick them into using it as real currency so that they get arrested.

Who knows if any of this is true, but from the asses' own mouth, that's a world of difference in intent.

The people who pass these out are huge assholes...but do honestly need it explained to you why tricking a homeless person into using fake money so they are arrested is not the same as some religious nutter attempting to trick you into reading their proselytization?

If a homeless man accepts a Hollywood bill, believes it genuine, and tries to spend it - they're not at fault for most of the currency related laws. Simply handing a homeless person a fake bill with the intent that they believe it is genuine is the super illegal thing. There's a large mens rhea component to most crimes but especially around fraud... the basis of most fraud cases is inequal information: you purposefully don't disclose a significant quality of the goods being transferred.

I hope this shitheel learns thoroughly that the secret service are really fucking serious about their non-bodyguard duty.

(Also, shout out to Warehouse 13 for being a fucking hilarious premise right in this area)

The person handing them out, passing the fake bills off as real money to the homeless(even as a donation) is the illegal thing. Spending a counterfeit bill without having known it was fake is not illegal in the US afaik, but you can still be arrested for it because the police don't have to believe that you didn't know.