In the case of stranger fruit, there was a young man walking home from a small liquor store nearby when all of a sudden a police officer came by, they started to have a conversation when the police officer started shooting at the young man, he started running to get away and he was wounded, the police officer took his time to get out the car and aim to keep on shooting at the young man, the young man was never armed he didn't have any weapons he never disrespected the officer. When they came into court they were trying to convict the cop of murder but they decided NOT GUILTY. In my opinion, I think he should have been found guilty because there was enough evidence to convict him of second-degree murder.
I agree that police officers should be held accountable to the same standards that average citizens have to abide. The problem is that sometimes police officers are protected and have unfair power due to their position. It is important that the justice system can see through his position and judge him with no bias. This way police officers can be held to the same standard.
ReplyDeleteIn American society, we believe in the rule of law meaning that everyone and everything is equally subject and accountable to the law. It's sad to thing we let this principle go out the window when it comes our police officers.
ReplyDeleteI think this is very interesting because i feel that cops should be treated like civilians in crimes.
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