Just because something's accurate doesn't mean a public official can say it without repercussions. A judge cannot, in his or her private life, make general but true comments about the statistical likelihood of a black man committing a violent crime compared to an asian man without facing motions to recuse himself every time he or she sits on a case with a black male defendant charged with a violent crime.
And again, I totally agree. I am looking at this from the point that justice is supposed to be blind. I know that it is not. Nor do I think there are no consequence. In fact, consequence of one’s actions was the defining part of my argument.
That we are at the point that because of PC concerns, not actual legalities and laws, when provably a true statement hinders the course of a legal proceeding (due to the substitution of racial ‘feeling’) is part and parcel why ‘law’ and actual justice are either unobtainable or flatly do not matter.
A/that/any cop, IMO, may or may not have a race issue. But for a cop to say “live like/die like” is a statement based on statistics supporting the claim.
The fact that an officer can be suspended/fired for making a true statement that goes against only PC ‘law’, or that an officer can have this true statement of fact used to disqualify him in testimony/court, is why justice in America in NOT blind and in ‘fact’ just a historical footnote.
In short, if stating the factual is a legal disqualifier, (and obviously it is now) we are doomed as a country.