“Society loses its moral grounds when we stoop to the actions of the most broken people to punish those who hurt people. But I’m living proof that hurt people not only hurt people — we can heal.”
Instead of protecting defendants’ right to have their guilt or innocence decided by their peers, judges routinely punish defendants for exercising that right.
The AG trying to restore norms, but so far he’s let the people who shattered them get away without consequence.
The verdict, said the Huber family, sends the "unacceptable message" that armed vigilantes can "use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street."
In Texas, dying in jail is “par for the course.”
"While this may help heal our grieving community, this rare moment of consequence for killings by police does not represent justice."
Through the first four months of 2021, there are less than a week’s worth of days in which police did not kill anyone, data shows.
Elite media would have us believe they are engaged in a serious reckoning with the racism of the US criminal justice system, that they care about over-incarceration and prison conditions. Yet elite media continues its silence about Mumia.
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There will be no fixing public trust – or the law enforcement system – without ending the legal doctrine known as qualified immunity that protects government employees from being taken to task for assaults on your constitutional rights.
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