cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15408610
Texas mom says police held her face in pile of fire ants, covering head and neck with hundreds of bite marks
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15408610
Texas mom says police held her face in pile of fire ants, covering head and neck with hundreds of bite marks
The video where she’s shown hog-tied face down in a pile of fire ants? Yeah, there’s nothing she could have done that justifies what we see in the video. No criminal or suspect ever deserves police brutality, regardless of the crime.
Regardless on any crime whatsoever? Even murdering 1,000 families?
Edit: point taken.
Correct, not even for serial killers. Police are not judge, jury, and executioner. They apprehend suspects, and the courts first prove that the suspect did the crime beyond a shadow of a doubt, and then if found guilty the courts decide the punishment which cannot be cruel and unusual and the punishment must fit the crime. For murdering 1k families it would be life in prison or the death sentence.
When the justice system was founded it was established with a number one priority of protecting the innocent, with a priority of avoiding false convictions. Otherwise, a king with absolute authority could order you to be executed by pouring molten metal down your mouth and on your face for the crime of
flipping him the bird.your neighbor accusing you of talking ill of the king even though you never said anything of the sort.True. Point taken.
The standard for criminal trials is “beyond a reasonable doubt.” There’s a whole speech in To Kill a Mockingbird about it.
Its not supposed to be the police that metes out the punishment. They have a historically bad track record on the matter