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Ah, I see you are advocating a new system where injustices are answered with further injustices.

MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
A new system? This is how society has been since time immemorial. It is the basis of our capital punishment system. People only point it out as being some sort of new phenomenon when minorities are the ones lashing out.
- engi_nerd 12y ago
  I don't intend to argue, here, in favor of the capital punishment system. What does offend me is your assertion that what I said had ANYTHING to do with race.
Lancey 12y ago
There is no system in place where this can end with justice. Every time that justice has been called for in cases of police brutality against minorities over the past year, only once was that justice served. Murderers are at large, and richer for, injustices that were defended by the system. Those that are supposed to deliver justice consider themselves all-powerful and above the laws they should be upholding. Justice failed Michael Brown and all the others that died at the hands of police officers on a power trip. When justice doesn't work, what is there to turn to?
- msandford 12y ago
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/04/11/thousands-dead-few-prosecuted/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/04/11/th...
- engi_nerd 12y ago
  I don't know what the answers are, but burning the businesses of innocent people who have nothing to do with all of this is not one of those answers.
- tzs 12y ago
  > Justice failed Michael Brown and all the others that died at the hands of police officers on a power trip. How do you conclude that justice failed Michael Brown? The physical evidence pretty overwhelmingly backs the officer's account of their encounter. See the DoJ's report for a discussion of this. If you want a face for people unjustifiably killed by police, why not someone like Eric Garner, who was doing nothing wrong before or during his encounter with the police and so whose killing was clearly unjustified?

A new system? This is how society has been since time immemorial. It is the basis of our capital punishment system. People only point it out as being some sort of new phenomenon when minorities are the ones lashing out.

engi_nerd 12y ago
I don't intend to argue, here, in favor of the capital punishment system. What does offend me is your assertion that what I said had ANYTHING to do with race.

Lancey 12y ago

There is no system in place where this can end with justice. Every time that justice has been called for in cases of police brutality against minorities over the past year, only once was that justice served. Murderers are at large, and richer for, injustices that were defended by the system. Those that are supposed to deliver justice consider themselves all-powerful and above the laws they should be upholding. Justice failed Michael Brown and all the others that died at the hands of police officers on a power trip. When justice doesn't work, what is there to turn to?

msandford 12y ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/04/11/thousands-dead-few-prosecuted/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/04/11/th...
engi_nerd 12y ago
I don't know what the answers are, but burning the businesses of innocent people who have nothing to do with all of this is not one of those answers.
tzs 12y ago
> Justice failed Michael Brown and all the others that died at the hands of police officers on a power trip. How do you conclude that justice failed Michael Brown? The physical evidence pretty overwhelmingly backs the officer's account of their encounter. See the DoJ's report for a discussion of this. If you want a face for people unjustifiably killed by police, why not someone like Eric Garner, who was doing nothing wrong before or during his encounter with the police and so whose killing was clearly unjustified?