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Originally Posted by GBBob
So a White Jew lawyer is defending Black cops who killled a guy..plus other white cops who killed the same guy...??
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The point is simply that Dershowitz is very liberal. He is a defense attorney and he is often times very critical of the police. So when he is an outspoken defender of the police, I think it means something. I'm not saying that it means mistakes weren't made by the police in this case. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a full and exhaustive investigation. I'm just saying that there shouldn't be a rush to judgment and the police should not be overcharged, simply to placate the protesters.
It is unheard of for police in this situation to be charged with false imprisonment. I have friends who are prosecutors. They have told me they have never seen anything like this in 25 years of prosecuting cases. If police make a mistake and arrest a guy because they think his knife is illegal and it turns out the knife is legal, the charges against the guy are going to be dropped. The police aren't go to be arrested for false imprisonment. That doesn't happen, ever. But in this case, that is what the prosecutor is doing. It's crazy.
One of my friends who is a prosecutor was telling me that he can't personally be sued for making a mistake. The city could be sued for his mistake but he couldn't personally be sued. The only way he could personally be sued would be if there was some type of intentional misconduct on his part. He can't personally be sued or arrested for making a mistake. If he could, who in their right mind would go into that field? It is the same with becoming a policeman. Who in their right mind is going to become a policeman if you can get sued and arrested for making a mistake. The officer did not know that the particular knife that Gray had was legal. You're going to arrest the cop for false imprisonment in that case? That is insane.
I'm not saying that some of the charges in the Gray case may not turn out to be legitimate. A few of the charges could be legitimate but some of the charges filed so far are absurd.