It’s not a distraction and it a key element of an arrested person’s rights. Whether or not this person talks is not the real issue here.
Not all people who are arrested are guilty.
http://washingtonindependent.com/84716/fbi-interrogators-urge-obama-to-keep-miranda-warnings-intact
FBI Interrogators Urge Obama to Keep Miranda Warnings Intact
This is a US citizen arrested on US Soil.
That could be any Right Wing Christian who DHS deems a terrorist because he shot someone . Might have been self defense. But let’s not follow basic Constitutional law.
Btw, for all of you that think everyone knows not to talk because of TV ...then you are not familiar with pressures that can be brought to bear to get a person to talk.
Including LIES.
Yes, they can lie to you when interrogating you.
I’m aware of the dangers but not concerned what the police do or say regarding reading “rights”
Most Christians know their rights or hopefully should. They dont need some officer to tell it to them.
It’s not really relevant.
More relevant I think is they’re charging under Federal law not MA law which means they can seek the death penalty in a state that doesn’t allow it.
Where’s the ACLU now? Aren’t they against the death penalty?!