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Originally Posted by GoodLife
What is funny about these types of threads
1. The USA has a legal system where guilt or innocence is decided by a jury after seeing all the evidence.
2. Nevertheless, people continue to pronounce guilt or innocence based on media reports and only a portion of the evidence.
Lots of people were 100% sure Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin. Jury pronounced him innocent on all counts after seeing all the evidence.
Lots more people thought Michael Brown was murdered with his hands up by Officer Wilson. But it was all a lie. Brown wasn’t surrendering and didn’t say don’t shoot. And he wasn’t a victim of police misconduct. Rather than the “Gentle Giant” he was portrayed at in the media, he sucker punched Wilson while Wilson sat in his police car, tried to grab Wilson’s service pistol, and was shot when he charged Wilson a second time.
BLM movement was founded on these two cases.
Nobody here knows what will happen in the Floyd case yet because a jury hasn't been shown all the evidence yet.
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Yes, the defendants in the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown cases were not found guilty of any crime. But, their lives were still ruined. Not by the jury, but by the prosecutors who caved in to public opinion and protestors and charged cases that they could not prove. Prosecutors don't have the authority to declare someone guilty of a crime, but just by charging them and taking them to trial will ensure that they will be punished. Where is the accountability for the prosecutors? I don't think either one of these cases should have gone to trial.