On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:13:23 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 11/25/15 12:00 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:03:39 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 11/25/15 7:41 AM, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:08:32 -0600, Boating All Out wrote:

Will coverage of cop the killing a teen in Chicago be
another 24/7 story?
Can they manage two 24/7 stories?
We'll see.

The video definitely makes the cop appear in the wrong. But, a first degree murder
charge has been filed. What more do the marchers want. Is this an excuse to begin
looting and burning in Chicago?
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You probably didn't understand the civil rights demonstrations and
marches of the 1960s, either.

Those demonstrations were because they felt their grievances were not
being heard. Charging an on duty cop with murder 1 is far from that.
It is clear that the Chicago DA was doing more than a reasonable
reaction. He better add murder 2 and manslaughter as lesser included
charges or you might have a Zimmerman moment.

It is going to be hard to make a murder 1 case although murder 2 is
possible and manslaughter is reasonable.

Without a death penalty, there is really not a significant difference
in sentencing. In most states you can still do "life" for murder 2. As
prisons get more crowded "life" really means "until you get so old and
sick that we can't afford to keep you" anyway.


It took 13 months for an indictment, and I think that only came about
because a journalist filed an FOIA and the tapes had to be released.
Thirteen months for an indictment? That's bull****, when you have tapes
in hand.

Might be more indictments. Apparently there was a coverup and part of
that involved cop erasures of video tapes from nearby security cameras.

The tape they have is going to be near impossible to refute. Emptying
your magazine into a guy who you've already shot and who is on the
ground...that's going to be tough to defend, eh?

I wonder if the cop will cop a plea.

My guess is that they had to be sure they had all the "Is" dotted and
the "Ts" crossed before they moved on this. You know the union is
going to hold their feet to the fire. Nothing will be worse than
losing this case over a technicality because someone got in a hurry.

I haven't heard but where has the cop been for the last year?
I bet they are still paying him, no matter what.

Ain't unions great?