No one should be beaten in prison no matter what they did. OJ should have been held to account for his crimes in the prior trial. But he wasn’t so a lot of people feel that justice was cheated and thus, things like this are justified. They aren’t. They don’t serve justice.
Sometimes justice for one thing comes out of injustice of another. God can allow things to work out ironically that way.
Am I in favor of guards or other inmates being able to beat on anyone they want? No. Is it wise to provoke the guards or inmates while in jail yourself? No. If OJ had not done anything and was targeted while minding his own business, would I approve of him getting beaten up? No. Do I feel bad for him for provoking hardcore skinheads to the point they kicked the crap out of him for what he knew would piss them off? Not really.
The hell you say. Justice is better served in dribs and drabs than never at all. You purists are not playing in the real world.....nor necessarily with a full deck if you think the punishment must fit the crime charged. More often, the punishment fits A crime committed by the same defendant at some point. In OJ’s case, the rest of his life in prison and a solid beat-down by whitey barely scratches the surface. He deserves worse. For those of us with 30 years of LE under our belts, we understand that justice is actually fickle and is often delivered in unexpected ways by people and means you’d never think of.
Forget the pollyanna dreamworld of justice you think mankind is capable of. We are not. It’s a vision to aspire to that nods to us in assent from time to time. Those are the rare occasions when the criminal justice system metes out punishment that fits the crime committed. It will never become the meat and potatoes reality of day-to-day justice.
You would be wise to embrace trickle-down justice. :)
Maybe not, but I'll bet the murderous bastard keeps his mouth shut about white women now.