Friday, November 05, 2021

We're the Only Ones Planting Enough

Judge throws out man’s guilty plea after bodycam footage reveals NYPD drug planting [More]

He pled guilty on a resisting charge because it was the least life-threatening option, even though he had every right to resist with lethal force. And what kind of psychopath must the Staten Island DA be?

Every once in a while I come across something that makes me question my instinctive opposition to public crucifixions.

[Via Michael G]

2 comments:

Ken Windeler said...


David, You call it "public crucifixions" sometimes I refer to "good old fashioned vigilante justice" but like you there's "that instinctive opposition."

David Codrea said...

Yeah, neither way can work-- one empowers a state to torture people to death and the other ignores due process. That said, the occasional visceral fantasy can sometimes be cathartic for a few seconds.