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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Headlines are always abysmal at impartially presenting facts.

This happened in 2015. The now ~25 year old kid's sentence has been reduced to "just" 30 years. https://aldailynews.com/advocates-back-effort-to-amend-alabamas-proximate-cause-murder-law-prosecutors-push-back/

The kids were robbing houses, a neighbor called the cops, the kids bolted when the cops showed up. The cops shot them in the back despite there being no threat to anyone's life... except those the cops shot at.

How the murder charge isn't just a case against the cop shooting unarmed teenagers who were committing a crime without any risk to life and limb is astounding.

Kid and his buddies were definitely on the hook for the burglary, sure... but that's certainly not decades of prison. It's been ten years now, the kid should have been out of prison at least 9 years ago. Burglary just shouldn't be a long term sentence for 15 year old children.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You really have to wonder who benefits from sharing such bullshit lies like this post.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Of course, the prosecution must have used the classic legal argument "why are you hitting yourself?"

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