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