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Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

semper wifi posted:

Everything I've seen about them says they were there to poo poo-stir and things escalated, nothing about them planning to shoot anyone.

From "they were there to poo poo-stir" to "things escalated;" why the convenient and not-at-all leading switch to the passive voice, semper wifi?

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Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

ToxicSlurpee posted:

They can probably get a wrongful death suit out of it.

God help us if they actually do, though. The right wing hate sphere is going to have a field day on that. You're going to hear nonstop "they're just greedy jerks using the tragedy for a quick buck."

The DA who spiked his case has already said exactly that, in case you weren't angry enough.

quote:

Ohio prosecutor Timothy McGinty accused the family of 12-year-old police shooting victim Tamir Rice of being “economically motivated” in their pursuit to bring the officer responsible to trial.

“They waited until they didn’t like the reports they received. They’re very interesting people… let me just leave it at that… and they have their own economic motives,” McGinty said during a community meeting Thursday, Cleveland’s WKYC reported.

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

He later issued a clumsy non-apology that of course Tamir's cynically scheming golddigger of a mother had every right to mourn his tragic-yet-fully-justified murder how could anyone think he'd meant anything else?

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Monaghan posted:

Is there something wrong with this? I don't think prosecutors should try cases in which they don't have a reasonably good shot of conviction.

The issue here isn't that McGinty didn't think he had a good shot of conviction, it's that he transparently didn't want a good shot of conviction.

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