That’s a good assessment. Remember that it doesn’t take much to indict Even a ham sandwich.
They also have to get past a grand jury before a full trial.
Violence sells newspapers and gets news networks advertising dollars. If there was complete racial harmony in this country that would hurt the ability of the MSM to make money.
Headlines that say “Whites and Blacks Live in Harmony,” don’t sell like “Atlanta Has Not Burned Like This in 156 Years.”
18 years running, I've never had a case no billed by a grand jury. 9 times out of 10, they don't even ask questions. I'm a detailed guy, but I won't even put that credit toward myself. The only questions I've ever answered when presenting a case was either for a brand new grand jury or someone that had an overt bias in one direction or another. I've never understood why they don't ask more questions.
In a situation like this, everyone's motivation is so blatantly obvious, its sickening to me. It can't just be about the facts and it's an abomination of the justice system that I desperately want to have faith in.
The document that the DA produced has some compelling points, but given his relationship to the accused, I honestly dont know how to take it. That's why I'm trying to wait to see the evidence in its entirety before I form an opinion. I just see a slant from every possible angle.
It's gonna be almost impossible to make a case for 1st degree homicide, beyond reasonable doubt, from what I've seen. The premeditation just isnt there because they couldn't have known he was gonna come back, if it was actually him that was there before. But that's the charge the angry masses wanted to see and nothing else will suffice.
And the bigger travesty is that even though the legal system likely caved to public opinion and brought that charge, if the jury doesn't return a guilty verdict, it'll most likely be like the summer of 65 all over again.
It's not actual justice they want. It's their perverted version of justice. And by they, all I mean is those with an agenda that they profit from. Which, much like a child, means they'll pitch a fit if things don't go their way.
Right, wrong or indifferent, this is a tragedy. Whether saint of sinner, a young man lost his life and the other parties (right or wrong) have to live with the taking of a life, as well as the upside down turn their lives and the lives of their families are taking, regardless of the outcome. By this, I mean look at the lives of Darren Wilson and family. He was legally exonerated, but they'll live in hiding for the rest of their lives. Where's the justice in that?
I'll give it this though: anyone that's been through an academy in Ga has had the case law of Tennessee vs. Garner drilled into their heads from the first week and again and again throughout their career. It's hard for me to imagine that even with some of the mouth breathers I've seen come down the line over the years, that they'd present a weapon without some kind of circumstance that at least half-ass justified it. There's always an exception to the rule, but it's just difficult to ration it.
I've grown up, lived my life and spent more of this life than not, in law enforcement at this point, in the South. And I'm the third generation in my family to do it. I've seen some real racism in my life, career included. It exists, no doubt. Not as much as some would like to believe, but it's still alive. But the people that claim racism before having factual information, or the ones that use it as leverage, just cheapen the meaning of the term to the point that it has no value any more. That's the biggest tragedy. Anymore, an actual victim of it just gets passed off as the boy who cries wolf. The whole thing is just fucking awful.