Due process does matter. Agreed.
Evidence does matter. Agreed.
Innocent until guilty does matter. Agreed.
But do they only matter for police, or are they also supposed to matter for the guy who was arrested and died with a broken spine?
He’s not gonna get a trial. He’s in the ground. Did he deserve to die for a legal knife because he’d had priors?
Or do we only give the benefit of the doubt to those who wear a badge?
People who excuse and rationalize government oversteps are the scariest of all, wouldn’t you agree?
None of the charges leveled against the officers even carry the death penalty, and it can be argued at this time that the elements for a number of these charges do not apparently exist. Furthermore, the death penalty does not exist in Maryland.
Yet I am conversing with a person who is calling for their execution.
"People who excuse and rationalize government oversteps are the scariest of all, wouldn’t you agree?"
Yes, I would agree that such people are scary, However, that is not what I am doing if that is what you are implying.
I am asking that charges be proven by evidence, and I am asking that penalties fit convictions during a conversation with a person calling for the execution of these officers, when the evidence, charges, the general scenario and the location of the incident here do not warrant.