The Ahmaud Arbury Murder Trial

In this latest police traffic-stop killing, one interesting factoid that’s doubtless going to come up :
The officer is claiming he feared for his life because Mr Lyoya had gotten his taser. The cop had already deployed the taser twice - that taser wasn’t any more deadly than any lump of plastic.

So, I guess we’ll see.

The officer had been half-tazed in training, he knew exactly how pissed off the driver was.


If they can murder a small 12 yr old kid with an obviously toy gun within 8 seconds of running up on him in a city park ... well, another cop will murder and skip,

"Intent" is a factor in severity of sentence in both directions. I get it, but it should be a weighted consideration. If intent makes up 10% of the elements of a crime, why did that murdering cop get more than 50% of her sentence adjusted.

Gregory and Travis McMichael get second life sentences for
federal hate crime convictions in Ahmaud Arbery's killing
(cnn)

Works for me. The part that still kills me is how because dad was a retired cop and father and son both worked in law enforcement, how the blue curtain tried to let this murder slip under the door.