A Black man who spent more than 16 years in prison in Florida on a wrongful conviction has been fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop
    • LordGimp@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      You know what comes from “just going with it”? 16 years on a life sentence for a crime you didn’t commit. Dude wasn’t going back, and that’s 100% justified imo. I’m digging how none of the police will elaborate on precisely why he was pulled over or what the arrest was supposedly for. Sounds like a contempt of cop they’re trying to slow play because it’s absolutely egregious in this scenario

      • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I’m not disagreeing with your scenario, I’m just thinking about pure statistics right now. We now incarcerate and murder POC in the US with enough frequency that it almost feels like “wrongfully incarcerated and then murdered for being black” all via coincidence has a higher statistical probability than we could possibly imagine. I’m not defending the cop, I’m saying that the system is so broken that these scenarios could actually just start happening passively.

    • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      8 months ago

      No I’m sorry but the cops in the US are bat shit crazy. They shoot at anything and anyone that has anything darker than a little tan. This doesn’t happen in any other country. Or at least, not as often as in the US. It’s ridiculous.