r/interestingasfuck • u/SilkenSeraph • 1d ago

/r/all Ryan Waller, a 22-year-old man who, despite having a bullet in his eye, endured 4 hours of interrogation by cops who thought he was lying—only to receive medical help too late.

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u/AsstronautExplorer 1d ago

It’s a legal system not a justice system. You were just duped into thinking that justice is a goal for the courts.

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u/Ashky22 1d ago

A legal system. And laws are nothing but threats of institutional violence (unless you have enough privilege to be above the law). They are not restoring justice by any stretch.

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u/aspoonfulofsammy11 1d ago

Yep. It was probably that whole “With Liberty and Justice for All.” thing, that had us thinking there’d be some justice…

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u/ThonThaddeo 1d ago

Egg on my face

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u/jnmtx 13h ago

a real chicken egg? in this economy?

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u/Seksafero 18h ago

Bullet in my eye

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u/Benevolent__Tyrant 6h ago

They also write "your work will set you free" on slave camps.

It's just only in America are people dumb enough to believe the propaganda.

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u/aspoonfulofsammy11 6h ago

It’s just only in America? 😂😂😂 Oh sweet summer child…

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u/Benevolent__Tyrant 5h ago

There is no equal to American stupidity anywhere else on the globe.

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u/denbobo 1d ago

Someone get this comment an award

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u/ManyNicknames15 23h ago

This would have been flipped on proper appeal. I know that because I self-represented myself in lawsuits before. You can't side with one legal opinion of one side without hearing the other. Everyone is entitled to their day in court and to present their evidence contradictory and supporting. This is an abject failure of the legal system.

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u/femaleZapBrannigan 1d ago

We should edit the pledge of allegiance and remove the liberty and justice for all part. 

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u/gfunk1369 1d ago

Perfectly said.

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u/Coyrex1 23h ago

Not surprised, courts will do what they need to give the city/cops a win.

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u/ChemistBig9349 22h ago

The type of “legal system” in the US is LITERALLY CALLED CRIMINAL JUSTICE. smdh

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u/CantCatchTheLady 15h ago

Thank you! I’ve been campaigning to get us to stop using the expression “justice system” for years.

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u/EnvironmentalBar3347 15h ago

It sucks but that was the first thing I learned in law101, the difference between what is and what ought to be, and the difference between what is law and what is ideal.

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u/Kwasan 13h ago

Yup. Anyone who thinks the U.S. works the way we were taught in school is stupid, ignorant, or evil. Find me someone who doesn't fit that, and I'll be impressed. This country is evil, corrupt, and will use and abuse us until we all die.

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u/Confident-Local-8016 22h ago

The only goal of courts anymore is to get money out of the common people, or prevent them from getting money from others unless it's even more egregious, our legal system is a shame, but at least we don't actually arrest 6 yrs old for checks notes apparently being transphobic so I mean at least there's that