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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Chauvin

 Depressing number of people think he will walk or only get the lightest sentence. I'm cautiously optimistic. People point to how police are rarely held culpable for their crimes and this is true. But as we saw from the Laquan McDonald case, if the cops break the Blue Wall, juries side with THOSE cops over the one in the defense stand.

I certainly hope I'm right.

However, it doesn't mean that we've turned a corner on prosecuting the police.

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