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Haven't gone through the entire posts, but I agree that 2nd degree murder is simply not going to be "provable". By going for all the marbles, you get a Rodney King situation. A jury WOULD have convicted the cops on a LESSER charge, but they went for the much more severe charge, and couldn't get the jury to convict.

Result? Acquittal. Riots. Then Obama goes after Z on "civil rights charges", like GHW Bush did. Lotta good THAT did him with the black community he was trying to appease in 1992.

It simply won't work. Didn't 20 years ago. We've learned nothing from history.

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We've learned nothing from history.

No kidding...didn't learn much from Rhodesia, either...

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If memory serves, the charges in the first King case were assault under color of authority and filing a false police report. Sgt. Koon was charged with failure to stop the activity. The jury found not guilty on all but one false report count against one officer. I think the real prosecutorial error was the assignment of a black prosecutor whose presence made the case more about race than justice. Racially charged argument doesn't go over really well with a white/asian/hispanic jury.

Interestingly, in the Federal trial, with a mixed jury, half the officers were acquitted, which is an indication that the case wasn't as solid as the media claimed. The other thing that's interesting about the Federal trial is that the jury opined that the section of the video shown repeatedly by the media actually portrayed a permissible use of force. Their conviction was based on the length of the use of force, not on the use of force itself.

The parallel here is the media getting so out of control that the case had to be moved out of town, then whipping up the mob with the help of several local and national race baiters so that “justice” became synonimous with conviction.