• PapaSkwat@lemmings.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    Laws are applied equally to everyone.

    Laws should be applied equally to everyone, you mean. I think if Brian Thompson committed actual crimes, then he should have been prosecuted and sent to prison. Not shot dead on the street. Luigi deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. Just because he killed an asshole, doesn’t mean he shouldn’t answer for the crime.

    Besides, if he’s such a hero like Lemmy thinks he is, and did it all in protest, thjen he should man up and accept his punishment.

    • JohnnyFlapHoleSeed@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Brian Thompson committed crimes that are typically handled by military tribunals and the Hague. But I’m not here to make excuses for the last 30 years of US criminal policy towards mass murders, fraudsters, con-men, and other ‘white’ collar criminals. The president is already busy doing that.

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        19 hours ago

        Brian Thompson committed crimes that are typically handled by military tribunals and the Hague.

        Cool. Then he shoulda been arrested and convicted. Not shot by some coward with caterpillar eyebrows who thought he was gonna start a revolution. And that revolution didn’t happen. And won’t happen. :)

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          9 hours ago

          And he wasn’t. So now a jury will decide if killing him was wrong or not. Jury nullification isn’t a bug. It’s designed as a final option in the face of injustice, a gift from our founders.