object level view incoming not much love for cops here but as a past target of prosecution, hard for me to be upset a not guilty verdict
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No. The process level view is that if rule of law is so easily circumvented by whether or not you have a badge, the system loses legitimacy
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I don't think the two points are incompatible
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In this specific case, they are.
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I mean was there some aspect of law not followed in this trial? It's totally possible But if the trial was carried out lawfully . . .
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I believe Roy Bryant and JW Milam's trial was carried out lawfully, too
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which was a bad outcome, as was this almost surely but condition on state at beginning of the trial; what was process issue?
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I don't understand your second sentence
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hmm yes lemme refine (1) view today's trial outcome as a draw from a distribution defined by the conditions at the beginning of the trial
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that's true in general but in the case of police there's a serious risk of eroding legitmacy
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if you're acting as an agent of the state you need to be held to a higher standard
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I think that is the optimal policy but is it the extant, de jure policy?
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