http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/12/23/3099651/great-travesties-justice-2013/
we are endanger from our country and it's flawed and malfeasance of law enforcers.
those who would be kings have cleverly trampled on all American tenets this particular one not so subtle as others as it was never meant to be as it states.
Every year, stories emerge that serve as a reminder that the American system of justice means injustice for too many, with some receiving little or no punishment for egregious offenses, while others receive harsh or faulty punishment for much less. Here are some of the worst injustices of 2013:
3. A man who killed an escort for refusing sex was acquitted by a jury
On Christmas Eve, Ezekiel Gilbert hired escort Lenora Ivie Frago and gave her $150 as what he believed was a payment for sex. But when she didn’t deliver that, Gilbert shot her in the neck and she died several months later from critical injuries. A jury acquitted Gilbert after his lawyer argued that he was authorized to use deadly force under a Texas provision that goes even farther than Florida’s Stand Your Ground law in authorizing the use of deadly force to “retrieve stolen property at night.”As in any jury trial, we’ll never know if that’s the reasoning the jury accepted when it acquitted Gilbert. Regardless, he will not face any criminal penalty for the shooting.
a murderer is more relevant then the one who he seeks out to break the law then compounds it by murdering that person he went after, murder 2 at least. why was he strapped he knew where he was going and the potential of trouble.
doesn't say what their races were why would it have made it even more suspicious or more of a white wash?
5. A man whose testimony was beaten out of him spent 30 years in prison before he was released last month
More than a decade ago, a special prosecutor undertook an investigation that revealed a longtime Chicago Police Department detective and commander had routinely tortured black men to coerce them into confessions or false testimony. Some of the convictions were reversed. A few others were pardoned by then-Governor Ryan. And Jon Graham Burge was convicted on related perjury charges and sent to jail.But Burge’s misconduct is still taking its toll on many of the 148 people who claimed abuse Just last month, a man who spent more than 30 years in jail was released after Judge Richard Walsh found that officers had lied about beating Stanley Wrice with a flashlight and a 20-inch piece of rubber, and about imposing similar treatment on a witness in Wrice’s case to elicit false testimony against him. Even as the emergence of DNA evidence has exposed the frequency of wrongful convictions, justice comes slowly or not at all for those who have already been convicted, including those who sat on death row.
Lord only knows how many times that has been repeated in this country's history? so little is published and when they are they are mostly by all people Black and White forgoten all to soon.
10. Shooters around the country granted immunity for causing death
A South Carolina man who shot and killed an innocent 17-year-old sitting in his car across the street. An Alabama woman who shot her ex-boyfriend’s step-son as he walked up her driveway. A Florida man who killed an acquaintance after he threatened to beat him up. Each of these defendants was granted immunity under the state Stand Your Ground laws that gained notoriety after the death of Trayvon Martin, while others like Marissa Alexander were serving 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot in self-defense (before a judge released her pending a new trial.) Yet even in Florida, the legislature has continued to reject any moves to roll back the law, and is insteadadvancing a bill to expand it.
this is nothing more than a license to kill and we see a disturbing but not surprising specific group of Americans being murdered because the state official said it was ok "just say, you were standing your ground" what of those whose ground was violated in order for those murderers to kill them?
CHANGE THE LAW OR IT WILL COME BACK AND BITE THEM.
