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[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago
[-] 133arc585@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Wow. Reading through those Descriptions is rough. Many of them involve the cop lying with verbal testimony not matching bodycam footage. One I saw was after the guy was already restrained, he bit the cop's finger, so the cop shot him. Others show that they are looking for (or will make up) any excuse to shoot: one person had a lighter in their hand which caused the cop to shoot and kill them. It's honestly disgusting that people will go out of their way to defend this system. I guess that's a level of privelege that I just don't understand; how can you possibly be sure you'll never be in such a situation with a lying, murderous police officer?

[-] astral_avocado@programming.dev -1 points 2 years ago

Huh, looks like this is talking about cops, of which there are millions of in America, and cops lying in reports, and not a about a court of law ruling a lynching was okay.

[-] 133arc585@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

You're taking an overly specific definition of lynching and framing the situation wrong, and coming to a bad conclusion.

A court's refusal to punish it, in nearly every case, is tacit support. They aren't saying "please, lynch!" but they're saying they won't punish lynching.

This also easily fits any definition of lynching that's not so restricted so as to only include "hanging black people from trees in town squares".

[-] astral_avocado@programming.dev -1 points 2 years ago

Courts are refusing to punish lynching?

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

The American people had to do a countrywide uprising just to get the courts to prosecute one case but go off ๐Ÿ‘

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