Posted on 05/09/2017 10:00:39 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
--SNIP-- “The evidence indicates that the derailment was caused the engineer operating the train far in excess of the speed limit,” the Philly DA’s office said in a statement announcing it had wrapped its investigation.
“However, we cannot conclude that the evidence rises to the high level necessary to charge the engineer or anyone else with a criminal offense.”
Prosecutors found no evidence that 34-year-old Brandon Bostian “acted with criminal ‘intent’ or criminal ‘knowledge’” when he accelerated Amtrak No. 188 to more than twice the speed limit on May 12, 2015, the office said.
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That is the standard they use with Hillary, and they say they cannot prove it because she will deny everything. I think it’s the wrong legal standard. This engineer operated with reckless indifference to passenger safety, whether or not he intended to commit a crime.
Must have big (D) connections......................
Okay. What about criminal negligence?
It’s well known that the justice system in Philadelphia is controlled by the unions. In this case, his union decided to protect him.
106mph in a 50mph curve? did he at least get a spanking?
If you did what he did with a bus full of people, you would go to prison, no questions asked.....why should a train be any different?...................
If a bus accident happened within the political limits of the city of Philadelphia and the driver were protected by a union, he wouldn’t be charged either.
“No criminal intent” is a truly absurd legal standard.
If the perp did harm or damage, his ‘intentions” are irrelevant.
Eight killed, >200 injured.
“Must have big (D) connections......................”
Even better protected class, he’s gay.
It is just a coincidence that he is a homosexual activist.
This is outrageous.
Now the union will fight like Hell to make sure he keeps his job — and that’s no joke. They will.
Next week, he will be suing the train board of directors for not giving him his job back, plus back pay, of course!
“Why???!!”
If he drove a car into a pole st 106 mph and killed someone hed at least get manslaughter
Something is very weird about this
Was he a perv doing something stimulating?
This tendancy of the Labor Union to protect their own at expense of hiring an incompetent worker only gives them a bad name.
If you ask for black coffee, and it offends a black person, you are guilty whether you meant to offend or not. Isn’t that their standard? Why don’t they apply that standard here?
That is exactly why Soros is getting involved in the Philly DA race. If you control the DA you can use the power of government to advance leftist causes and power.
Given his obsession perhaps something was getting spanked...
Protected classes have urges we need to not only tolerate but celebrate
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