Was the knife legal or illegal? Has civics class failed me?

[Aerows]

20. Too many people

try to come up with reasons to blame the person that is the victim of a crime for whatever "crime" they imagine said person was guilty of.

It's one of those things where people *really* want to believe it will never, ever, happen to them or someone they care about. Somehow it's some rationalization that if they condemn the person that was a victim, they themselves will never be a victim of injustice.

Which is obviously dumb, and just heaps insult on top of injury.

I think we have every right to be outraged that a young man was executed on the street, regardless of how it came to be - and in fact, we HAVE to be outraged, otherwise we have the risk of becoming the next person "responsible for dying at the hands of police, in police custody."

That's the narrative - Gray was responsible for dying. How dare he die and make the Baltimore police look bad!