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To: JohnM who wrote (265115)11/25/2014 2:36:57 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 540685
 
Given the decisions in this area this case wasn't even CLOSE. I kid you not. You don't like that? It's a supreme court problem. But you're all over the prosecutor. Not his fault. And yes- lots of people are dumb because they don't know the law but they insist on arguing it. I imagine doctors feel that way too- when they're patients self diagnose, incorrectly. Obviously it's not "dumb" to call for a trial, even if you know it's unwarranted, if you are doing it as a political ploy. That's disingenous, and manipulative, but it's not "dumb". So we'll have to disagree on the dumbness too.



To: JohnM who wrote (265115)11/25/2014 3:30:20 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 540685
 
This was a long time ago, but a white police officer shot and killed a white homeless man who was waving a stick at him from ten feet away in Austin, Tx. The grand jury there did not indict him either.

These decisions seem to go according to the "worth" of the victim. Black "thug", homeless man = unworthy.