Mob justice isn’t justice.
On this occasion they have stopped the right person, but imagine if he had been an innocent man fleeing the scene.
We don’t want to see lynchings (I am aware of the racial meaning, and it’s not used in that way despite the colour of the dead man)
There’s no suggestion that they intentionally killed him, but the question was whether this was justice. Which it isn’t.Is there any suggestion the concerned citizens tried to harm him?
The report reads to me they were trying to restrain him, albeit I don't suppose they were too concerned about his welfare one way or the other.
There’s no suggestion that they intentionally killed him, but the question was whether this was justice. Which it isn’t.
And we’re this sort of thing to be condoned then mob justice could become more common place.
Not. Justice would have been served if he had survived and been convicted and punished by the courts.
It appears that he may have died from positional asphyxia, something that police officers are trained to avoid causing, although not always successfully.
I don’t blame the crowd for doing their best to restrain an offender. We can only speculate why the police took fifteen minutes to arrive but their response time may not have been helped by their numbers being cut by 20,000 over the last decade.
Not. Justice would have been served if he had survived and been convicted and punished by the courts.
It appears that he may have died from positional asphyxia, something that police officers are trained to avoid causing, although not always successfully.
I don’t blame the crowd for doing their best to restrain an offender. We can only speculate why the police took fifteen minutes to arrive but their response time may not have been helped by their numbers being cut by 20,000 over the last decade.
Exactly, and this incident happened in 2017. It's actually worse than the graph shows. My contacts tell me that officers now do many of the more administrative but still necessary tasks once carried out by civilian staff.
On many occasion people would just post a link and say 'discuss' so don't give me that one.It would be helpful to follow the convention that was in place before this area was moved away from CC whereby the poster was required to provide their own view held on the story/topic linked to.
Also, posting just a bare link with no summary was not allowed.
On many occasion people would just post a link and say 'discuss' so don't give me that one.
Although I think the fella dying was very unfortunate and I wouldn't have wished that on him, I have no sympathy whatsoever and in my opinion if you enter a premises masked up and carrying a weapon with every intent to rob and harm someone if they don't do what you say then you getting some of the same is more than justified.
Happy?
Is there any suggestion that any of them may be prosecuted?