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comment by j4d3

I would like for the media to really dig into what cops did what, when.

Who filled out her intake form, and when? Are we sure? Who was in the jail the morning she died? Is the coroner buddies with someone who was at the jail that morning? Who all has access to the dashcam and jail videos?

If these are all different people who don't know each other well, maybe there's nothing to this aside from a crazy unjust arrest and a sad suicide. But if everyone in the police force decided they hated Sandra Bland, and the sheriff in charge has a worrying history, I worry that we're seeing an IRL example of the Stanford prison experiment.





deanSolecki  ·  3404 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think at this point, what looks like murder should be assumed to be so. There is no pretense of rule of law, anymore. When the people that are committing the crimes are also the ones investigating them, there's no "waiting for all the facts to come out." The facts aren't going to come out. We'll never get the facts that matter, we'll get the facts that the criminals committing the crimes want us to get.

When the institutions that enforce order are committing the crimes all the "rule of law" stuff goes out the window. There won't be a fair trial, there won't be an indictment. The only judgments we can make are now going to be based on incomplete information that is provided by those that are committing the crimes.

It's all fucked. Properly fucked.