EMNofSeattle
Regular Member
So, are you trying to imply that our 'justice' system is like a football game where:
1) You're on one team.
2) 'They' are on the other team.
3) All the refs are picked from the bench-warmers on 'Their' team.
4) Therefore it's reasonable to assume that those refs are not treating your team fairly.
That's just crazy talk
Do you have any real proof of these outrageous allegations? (Birk!)
What about Birk? keep in mind that not only did SPD conduct a review, but an inquest jury was called and a death inquest was conducted in which average citizens who couldn't come up with a better excuse not to be there were seated to listen to both sides of the argument, one of which was presented by an attorney the Williams family had hired, and that jury couldn't find Birk clearly guilty. (I believe the Inquest was a coroners inquest conducted under RCW 36.24.20 although King County does have a charter government so maybe it's not) remember 4 of 8 jurors ruled that Williams was an imminent threat. also the jury for the inquest board was pulled out of the same pool as trial jurors would, if you can't get a jury to agree on a proceeding with NO criminal penalties then it would be a waste of the county's time and money to prosecute, becuase when you add criminal liability my guess is Birk would be cuising straight to aquittal (and then SVG would be complaining about juries I'm sure, probably will bring up an idea to have "free market" jurors or whatever. The average citizens would be conspiring with the government to let birk go free :banghead if brought to trial.
Seattle police covered nothing up, the reports and dash cam video are publically available, King County covered nothing up, they brought birk to inquest in a public venue, using jurors randomly pulled from the community, and with the jurors decision the King County PA decided it was unlikely he could win at trial (meaning he can't prove beyond a reasonable doubt) This is exactly how the system is supposed to work
This is not government shielding an officer, this was the proper decision to make regarding the circumstances under current law.
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