Wednesday, August 20, 2014

DUE PROCESS: Don't Lecture People on Due Process when you have a gun pointed at their head.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/20/1323250/-Don-t-lecture-people-on-due-process-when-you-re-pointing-guns-at-their-heads

An American police officer shooting an unarmed black man is something that happens often enough that there can be studies done on it. Now that's depressing.

It remains to be seen whether Wilson will face criminal charges, but a limited review of similar killings by police suggests that the officers more often than not walk away without an indictment, and are very rarely convicted. Delores Jones-Brown, a law professor and director of the Center on Race, Crime, and Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, looked at 21 publicized cases from 1994 through 2009 in which a police officer killed an unarmed black person. Of those, only seven cases resulted in an indictment—for criminally negligent homicide, obstruction of justice, conspiracy, or violation of civil rights—and only three officers were found guilty.

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