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Will Smith could be prosecuted even if Chris Rock doesn’t file a complaint
American Thinker ^ | 03/29/2022 | John Leonard

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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TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: assaultandbattery; chrisrock; oscars; slapping; whocares; willsmith
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To: SeekAndFind

Zero chance. Literally zero.


21 posted on 03/29/2022 8:43:29 AM PDT by mykroar (There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. - Sun Tzu)
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To: Michael.SF.

“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.


22 posted on 03/29/2022 8:44:26 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


23 posted on 03/29/2022 8:46:30 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: SeekAndFind

Perhaps what we are seeing is actually Will Smith’s delayed response to the Smollett verdict.


24 posted on 03/29/2022 8:46:37 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SeekAndFind
He ought to be prosecuted.

Period!

25 posted on 03/29/2022 8:46:47 AM PDT by blam
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


26 posted on 03/29/2022 8:47:26 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

...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.


27 posted on 03/29/2022 8:47:31 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


28 posted on 03/29/2022 8:48:01 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Telepathic Intruder

JUSSIES IN JAIL AS WE TYPE.


29 posted on 03/29/2022 8:50:58 AM PDT by Liz ("Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not with Soros puppet Gascon as the DA.


30 posted on 03/29/2022 8:51:58 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: SeekAndFind

Nothing takes the focus off the democrats destructive policies like a hollywood production.


31 posted on 03/29/2022 8:54:31 AM PDT by robel
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To: Liz

They put him back? I didn’t hear.


32 posted on 03/29/2022 8:55:08 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SeekAndFind

It was a publicity stunt, and it worked.


33 posted on 03/29/2022 8:55:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Depopulate the depopulationists. --FJB)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


34 posted on 03/29/2022 8:57:06 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: Wallace T.

> ... 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.


35 posted on 03/29/2022 8:58:33 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Will Smith should be forced to do a documentary on the life of Tupac.


36 posted on 03/29/2022 8:58:52 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: SeekAndFind

Then there are those here who thought it was faked...they look like fools...


37 posted on 03/29/2022 9:00:15 AM PDT by vespa300
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


38 posted on 03/29/2022 9:02:44 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


39 posted on 03/29/2022 9:02:45 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: SeekAndFind

[[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.


40 posted on 03/29/2022 9:02:51 AM PDT by Bob434
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