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cstanleytech

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4. If you mean the part where it says

Reply to countryjake (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 21, 2015, 05:52 PM

Jan 2015

"Federal prosecutors faced a similarly high legal standard for proving that Birk acted willfully and with the intent to violate Williams' civil rights."
then that is probably what happened here, without the evidence to show that the officers intended to violate their rights it becomes next to impossible to secure a conviction at the federal level unless of course they rewrite the law so it says all police officers are now automatically guilty and have to prove their innocence though I doubt the scotus would agree with that.

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Exactly like they did with the John T. Williams murder in Seattle... countryjake Jan 2015 #2

If you mean the part where it says cstanleytech Jan 2015 #4

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This doesnt have a damn thing to do with Democracy being alive or dead. nt cstanleytech Jan 2015 #10

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