Posted on 03/29/2022 8:20:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Chris Rock almost made the Oscars worth watching. Almost. Rock declined to press charges, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the matter has been resolved.
According to California law, prosecutors are responsible for holding guilty people accountable for their actions and an obligation to pursue justice despite influence from the alleged victim or the community. The prosecutor can consider factors including whether the victim is cooperative or not, but that should not be the determining factor on filing criminal charges. The decision should ultimately rest on whether there is evidence that a crime has been committed and whether the case can be proved in court.
The only factor that should matter is the first, but pragmatism requires the second. If there is little or no hope of ever attaining a conviction, there is no point in wasting time and money taking an unwinnable case to trial.
Naturally, House representatives Ayanna Pressley and Jamaal Bowman announced their support for Will Smith on Twitter before apparently realizing they had just endorsed violence and deleted their tweets. Bowman's staff took responsibility for his tweet and explained they thought the altercation at the Oscars had been staged, but Pressley didn't say anything. She just pretended the whole thing never happened.
Is the Will Smith prosecution unwinnable? It certainly shouldn't be. There were thousands of live witnesses in the audience and millions more on television. It should be simple for police to have a warrant issued for the show script. Unless there is a scene where Will Smith is supposed to charge Chris Rock on stage and slap his face, Smith should be charged with battery. Of course, that will never happen, because this is Hollywood and Black Lives Matter.
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Zero chance. Literally zero.
“Pinkett a few years ago complained about the Oscar’s being ‘too white’. Well they are now more black and this display did not help her cause.”
With some people, everything is about race. But, they are multi-millionaires BECAUSE of their race; it sure as hell is not because of talent.
This is LA.. Both are black. No charges, no trial. C’mon. In CaCaLand all laws are applied along racist lines. Been that way for ages.
Perhaps what we are seeing is actually Will Smith’s delayed response to the Smollett verdict.
Period!
Totally fake event.
How many men do you know that would march up and bitch slap a man instead of punching him?
How many men have you slapped?
PR stunt.
...but he will not because he is a member of two special groups. Fisrt, he is a dark skinned human and the other is he is a fabled, important person called an ‘actor’. Actors will not be arrested even after they shoot and murder someone.
Yeah, riiight.
As if anyone believes a “woke” legal establishment is actually interested in actual violations of the laws....by certain races. Oh well, the Oscar actions removed yet another “actor” from my respect list. Actually, there are darned few on that list. Take away their scripts and the stupidity just pours out.
JUSSIES IN JAIL AS WE TYPE.
Not with Soros puppet Gascon as the DA.
Nothing takes the focus off the democrats destructive policies like a hollywood production.
They put him back? I didn’t hear.
It was a publicity stunt, and it worked.
The fact they will not even prosecute shoplifters for stealing hundreds of dollars of goods because that is being “racist” tells me they will not even dare touch a non-existant hair on his head or his wife’s bald head.
> ... as transparently staged as the Three Stooges throwing pies at each other. <
I once met Moe, and had a short conversation with him. He was a real gentleman. And since he wasn’t carrying any pies at the time I escaped unscathed.
Looking back, I wish he would have thrown one at me. It would have made for a better story.
Will Smith should be forced to do a documentary on the life of Tupac.
Then there are those here who thought it was faked...they look like fools...
Oh the irony. Prosecute Will Smith for a relatively mild slap against another man who insulted his wife while his fellow melanated peoples can rob, rape, and assault without a care in the world.
Forget this, nothing is going to happen to Smith, if the Academy had any Balls they would take back his Oscar, but they won’t, all they will do is give him a Reprimand on his Permanent Record and life will go on.
Now of this had been someone else, then all Hell would been brought down on them.
[[According to California law, prosecutors are responsible for holding guilty people accountable for their actions]]
Well that is a big fat fail on their part then. They do everything they can to coddle the guilty if they check al. The checkboxes for liberal.
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