I don’t think paychecks that are smaller than a few hundred bucks a week are really worth even considering. The great thing about being a min wage employee, is that you can get paid that anywhere.
I’m not going to speculate about the economic impact of burning down an auto zone. But I will say that the guy who owned the auto zone probably doesn’t worry about his kids getting shot in the streets by police.
The people who burned it do.
If you make a mockery of the grand jury process by sending in a prosecutor to actually argue a defense, and you strip this community of it’s right to justice, and you take away the venue by which they can have the truth come out through back room bullshit…I think the message they’re sending is that they’ll burn your shit down.
So make all the shady deals you want, and be as biased as you want toward them, and take away their rights and shoot their kids, and play games with the public instead of serving them and I think what’ll probably happen is that a lot of your shit will get burned down.
If they want it to be another way, then don’t manipulate the indictment process by sending in a prosecutor to actually not prosecute, but instead defend the guy. When he does that, he’s undermining the adversarial nature of our court system and the result is that the truth stays hidden from everyone.
People seem to fail to understand that even if he thinks the guy isn’t guilty, his job is to still argue that he’s guilty. With as many unknowns as there seem to be in this case, it’s a fucking 1 in a million chance that a competent prosecutor would fail to get this case to trial.
All he had to do was walk in and tell the grand jury, “ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got 50 witnesses and a host of evidence all of which point to opposite sides. We need to get this in front of a judge so that the public can know the truth and so that we can sort out all the facts.”
That’s it.
But instead he goes in, tells them, “look, we pretty much know this guy isn’t guilty, the public’s just calling for his head. There’s no evidence against him except a bunch of witnesses that are contradicting each other. Check it out…here’s 1 witness that says the kid was even charging at the cop.”
Then they throw it out.
So people aren’t as stupid as a lot of folks seem to think. So when they’re waiting on justice, and they get what they got here instead…they’re gonna burn shit down. They’re angry, and rightfully so. They have a right to justice…at least in as much as they have the ability to perform actions which give them a sense that it was served.
I’m proud of these people. I think it’s important that some element of society put it’s foot down and say, “you kill our children, and we’ll react in an overwhelming way”.
If someone shot my child, I would do the same thing.
