1/ “Innocent until proven guilty” is a core principle of justice. If you’re tried in a court of law there are rules of due process: the defendant’s lawyer gets to cross-examine the accuser, defendant gets to bring his or her own witnesses, circumstantial evidence investigated etc
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2/ But when you’re tried in the media or on social media the court of public opinion can be vicious and cruel these days. Just because someone said something, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true! Gossip isn’t evidence. Accountability is one thing, but mob justice is another.
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What you describe is not the political system; it’s a perversion of the legal system. Cops executing people is not the legal system; it’s murder. The legal system is their being arrested and tried.

Jul 10, 2020 · 10:57 AM UTC
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I think the point is the inherent racism that has infused the system. But we shouldn’t conflate the system itself with the lack of ethics of on the part of too many people within it. The same system that has destroy so many people’s lives is the system we need to use to fix that.
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