[Filo]

Wrong justice has been served. The man screwed up and now he has to pay for it.

And as is typical with cops, he's paying far less than is fair.

A man is dead, a child has no father, a mother has no child and the murderer is going to spend a few months in a minimum security country club, carefully segregated and protected from the other "inmates."

If a civilian did the exact same thing he'd spend 30 years behind bars, minimum.

[conimbricenses]

FWIW I would even be inclined to afford Mehserle a little clemency for a seemingly sincere apology...if it were not for the blatant double standard that already affords him leniency by virtue of being a cop.

Let's accept for a moment that he did fire the gun by accident as he claims. So what next? If the situation was reversed and a civilian shot a cop completely by accident that civilian would be in jail. In fact one of them is right now - Ryan Frederick, who legitimately and justifiably mistook a cop for a burglar when that cop was bashing through his front door on a no-knock raid.

[linn37]

Yeah he ruined his life,lost his job,now has a criminal record,has to serve time and you think he is skating. Okie dokie smokie.