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TheHeretic -> RE: "Ooops! We locked him up - and forgot about him" (3/12/2013 6:33:47 PM)
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I missed nothing, Polite, and I've been expressing an issue that the guilty get a walk on this, from my entry to the discussion.
Some (I have to guess a bit, for those who have had the privilege of appearing on my screen revoked) want to get pissy because I refuse to look at this within the narrow parameters of how CNN chose to frame the story, or restrict the subject to a one-dimensional "awww" response.
Welcome to life outside the lines. It's where the victim in this case lives, and where the staff at that jail chose to spend their on-the-clock hours. It's where an honest investigation would have gone.
I can only speculate on what sources have informed your vision of how law enforcement in the US actually gets carried out. I'm certain you've heard of the hated Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who got famous for the tents, and putting the inmates in pink skivvies, but have you ever even heard of the Twin Towers jail, or have the vaguest clue of the routine conditions for pre-trial (as in, not convicted of anything) confinement in that facility?
You don't know what you are talking about. Fine. Have fun anyway. I'm a free speech kind of guy, as you know. But if what I'm saying is going right past you, maybe hush, and see if you can puzzle it out. The victim here is not unique. He's just the one who got the right lawyers, and the right jury, and a check most people have to spend a dollar to dream about. At least with Rodney King, a few people went to trial before he got paid.
My refusal to assume the assigned, "oh, he's such a poor dear," stance, doesn't in any way lessen my outrage with what happened to him, or my disgust that the case is closed.
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