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To: RKBA Democrat

Just saw that on Hannity that 3 cops are black so there goes the race factor .

They cannot have a fair trial at all and the corruption of the prosecutor taking money from Grays lawyer, and looking at who she is married to along with her comments of “I heard your shouts of no justice no peace” That is a political statement.


508 posted on 05/01/2015 8:00:51 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: manc

I disagree. A prosecutors job is to prosecute. She is also an elected official. While I absolutely disagree with her politics, she has the same right to make political statements as any elected official. The question really is whether or not she is abusing her discretion and illegally prosecuting these individuals? I can only base my views on what I’ve seen, but so far I’d say there is at least enough to obtain an indictment. The charges are plausible and I’d say with the exception of the one murder charge, within reason. And the murder charge, while a reach, is possibly a much used prosecutorial tactic to charge high and convict low. Another likelihood is given that there are six individuals being prosecuted, by charging high you increase the chance of one or more turning states evidence.

So what is the problem? That police are being prosecuted? I resd plenty of articles where there are collective gasps of horror at police misconduct. Gunning down former Marines, tossing flashbangs in babies cribs. Yet we have a situation here where the police are being prosecuted for what is arguably a police killing and there are gasps of horror abounding.

You can’t have it both ways. If you want to hold police accountable to the same standard everyone else is, then you’re going to end up in situations where police are being prosecuted for doing bad things to bad actors.

Let me conclude by noting the extreme naivete regarding politics. Criminal justice is inherently political, from the decision as to what is a crime, who will be prosecuted, who the prosecutor is, who the judge is, to what the makeup of the jury (if any) will be. All crimes are political crimes, iIt’s silly to expect politics to somehow take a vacation at the courthouse steps.


528 posted on 05/02/2015 5:15:56 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Ted Cruz 2016)
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