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In reply to the discussion: A Startling Admission By The Ferguson Prosecutor Could Restart The Case Against Darren Wilson [View all]calimary
(81,198 posts)Shouldn't have even been allowed to offer testimony. The FLAGRANT bias here is just really infuriating. And embarrassing!
THERE ARE SO MANY WRONG SIGNALS SPINNING OUT OF THIS STUFF!!!!!!!
AND IT'S BOUND TO END BADLY!!! Heck, ALMOST GUARANTEED to end badly.
For example, all the mouths yapping about how the protests spurred the murder of those two New York City cops? SHIT! The protests have NOTHING to do with that!!! For Pete's Sake! It's the widely-perceived INJUSTICE that's spurred it! Flagrant and repeated injustice unfortunately can be expected to spark something like this. It's gonna provoke someone feeling great grievance about this just to snap! You get enough of the repeated incidents where white-cop-kills-black-civilian-and-isn't-held-accountable - and invariably some hothead out there is gonna be very tempted to take matters into his/her own hands. All it's going to do is provoke more vigilante justice among those who feel that the system is so stacked against them and the game is so rigged that they have to go all Lone-Ranger-meets-Robin-Hood and "settle this" on their own. Somebody's gonna go rogue and do something really reckless in the name of seeking justice, or payback, or whatever one might want to call it.
It's just bad, and sad, all around. I wish more of our justice-system people could see and understand this. Don't they study human nature? Or is it just me? When I first heard about the ambush killing of those two cops, that's the first thing that popped into my mind. Somebody's trying to even the score, on their own, because those cops in the Eric Garner case didn't face any consequences for CLEAR and OBVIOUS police brutality.
It's NOT the protesters. It's NOT the protesters! They've been peaceful. Large in number but basically peaceful. They're holding signs instead of guns and ammo.
This is so damn sad. It just makes me feel disgusted and ashamed.