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This man was clearly and obviously wronged by law enforcement and the justice system, and it's nice to know that at the very least he won in the end. With that
by dpratt 11y ago
This man was clearly and obviously wronged by law enforcement and the justice system, and it's nice to know that at the very least he won in the end.
With that said, I can't agree with the statement "If the cops had done their job, two people wouldn't be dead." That line of reasoning, when extended, can be applied to pretty much anything.
The only people culpable for the deaths of the two people robbing the gas station are the individuals themsevles - they chose to rob a store, and suffered the consequences.
- chc 11y ago> With that said, I can't agree with the statement "If the cops had done their job, two people wouldn't be dead." That line of reasoning, when extended, can be applied to pretty much anything. Not really. The cops have a responsibility to the public. "Pretty much anything" does not have a similar responsibility. I agree that we shouldn't go all Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with regards to culpability, but it's definitely the case here that the cops failed in their duty here, and this failure seems to have had predictable bad consequences.
- klodolph 11y agoI get what you're trying to say, but you're wrong. Culpability is not the same as cause and effect. Either you are conflating the two concepts, or you are assuming that someone else is conflating the two concepts. "If those cops had done their job, two people wouldn't be dead." This is a statement of cause and effect. It is not a statement of culpability. Imagine that I said, "If you had remembered to lock your car, your backpack wouldn't have been stolen out of the trunk." You can accuse me of "victim-blaming" or you can realize that I'm not stupid and I actually do understand that the thief is to blame for the theft.