Genuinely fuck thise Jurors…
How can you have nearly all of the available evidence contradict police testimony, including video evidence that clearly points towards them being guilty, and then just decide that they’re clearly not guilty anyways?
It feels like a perversion of the law that these officers were able to assault and kill a man in broad daylight, who had (at the time) done nothing wrong short of talking to the police officers, and justify it based on the guy’s past crimes.
“The biggest reason why I personally think this jury found reasonable doubt is because the defense was essentially allowed to put Manny Ellis on trial,” Ericksen said via email. “The defense attorneys were allowed to dredge up Manny’s past and repeat to the jury again and again Manny’s prior arrests in 2015 and 2019. That unfairly prejudiced jurors against Manny.”
Fuck the judge who allowed this, too.
Exactly. They allowed the police to air out the man’s dirty laundry when he couldn’t defend himself anymore, and used it to justify his murder. Sickening
Well they’re just telling everyone it’s legal to do now, so if that’s the case… I hope they’re prepared.
It’s baffling that the jurors saw reasonable doubt when all the witness and video evidence showed otherwise.
People in general just want to believe that the police have a hard job and want to blame the people they murder. They will look for any excuse to give them a pass.
It doesn’t help that the judge allowed all the information on his previous charges and sad past to be repeated over and over.
Americans have a fetish for punishing ex-criminals.
“The only response at that point that I could think of is, ‘If you can talk to me, you can still breathe,’” Rankine said in testimony.
How was this allowed to stand unchallenged? This is patently false, and everyone should know it by now, especially cops.
Oh, great, we gotta do all this shit again
Welp, at least Bobby Ferg tried.
