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Multiple Life Sentences for Minor in Police Shooting He did not Participate in. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Headlines are always abysmal at impartially presenting facts.

This happened in 2015. The now ~25 year old kid's sentence has been reduced to "just" 30 years. https://aldailynews.com/advocates-back-effort-to-amend-alabamas-proximate-cause-murder-law-prosecutors-push-back/

The kids were robbing houses, a neighbor called the cops, the kids bolted when the cops showed up. The cops shot them in the back despite there being no threat to anyone's life... except those the cops shot at.

How the murder charge isn't just a case against the cop shooting unarmed teenagers who were committing a crime without any risk to life and limb is astounding.

Kid and his buddies were definitely on the hook for the burglary, sure... but that's certainly not decades of prison. It's been ten years now, the kid should have been out of prison at least 9 years ago. Burglary just shouldn't be a long term sentence for 15 year old children.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In one article posted on this case, one of the teens charged an officer with a drawn gun per body cam footage. If that's correct, then that teens life was forfeit the moment he pulled the weapon. It's stupid to commit a burglary, it's really stupid to do it with a gun, and it's suicide if you pull it against a cop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ah, here we go. The omitted devil from the details. Of course that will be left out when they talk about getting the kids off the hook.

It is quite fucked up to be guilty by proxy for murder but that's the law there. I think it should be changed but I have exactly this much influence in alabama's house and senate:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I think we all agree on that. But the other 4 having the book thrown at them just for robbery is a bit... Fucked.