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Richard Spoor

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Is a public Interest lawyer with a special interest in land reform, mines and communities and compensation for occupational diseases. Militant non-racialist.

White River, South Africa
goldminersilicosis.co.za
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    Richard Spoor‏ @Richard_Spoor 5 Aug 2020

    A terribly sad story. Two young and idealistic lawyers, get wrapped up in the BLM protest movement. In a moment of madness they throw a Molotov cocktail into an abandoned police car and burn it. Now they face a minimum 35 years in a federal prison.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/lawyers-arrested-molotov-cocktail-nyc-protest.html …

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      2. Richard Spoor‏ @Richard_Spoor 5 Aug 2020

        Most people, even good ones, do something stupid sometime. When that results in the ruining of their otherwise good and productive lives, it’s tragic. I have seen it many times. In legal systems like ours it can be mitigated, but in the US with harsh minimum sentences it can not.

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      3. Richard Spoor‏ @Richard_Spoor 6 Aug 2020

        Every time you got drunk and mooned someone, you made yourself guilty of indecent exposure, when you drove drunk, it’s only your good fortune you didn’t kill someone and went to jail for five years.

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      4. Richard Spoor‏ @Richard_Spoor 6 Aug 2020

        Yo, people are harsh. So many supporters of hangings, amputations and lengthy prison sentences. Me, I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. I have defended murderers and child abusers and I have never found mercy to be inappropriate.

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      2. Hugh Randall‏ @hugh_randall 5 Aug 2020
        Replying to @Richard_Spoor

        I think it will be fitting for them to learn a tough lesson and serve as an example to others that this sort of criminal act comes with severe punishment.

        42 replies 30 retweets 1,216 likes
      3. Jonathan Els‏ @jonathanelscpt 5 Aug 2020
        Replying to @hugh_randall @Richard_Spoor

        35 years. Who did they murder?

        21 replies 0 retweets 46 likes
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      1. Freddie ☠ 🗿 🇪🇺‏ @andyjmaher 5 Aug 2020
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      2. Richard Spoor‏ @Richard_Spoor 5 Aug 2020
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        What they did was not “bad”, it was stupid and pointless.

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