Disgusting

[bcholmes]

In the same week that Mehserle was released, there's a new attempt by cops to "manage" a killing.

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[wild_irises]

I certainly don't want to defend Mehserle or say that he got a fair sentence. At the same time, I think it's important to remember that he was the just about first policeman ever to get a sentence in California, and the case was the first murder prosecution of a policeman ever in San Francisco. Perspective.

[bcholmes]

*nod*

I get that.

One of my cow-orkers used to be a crown prosecutor who specifically brought cases against the police (the road from crown prosecutor to programmer is a strange one). He's often said similar things about the Ken Deane trial: there's every reason to be disappointed with the outcome of Deane's trial, but the fact that he actually got convicted was a big deal.