r/mildlyinfuriating 1d ago

Justice system..

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u/botella36 1d ago

For us, it is just midly infuriating, for him and his family a lot more than that.

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u/shoesafe 1d ago

belongs in wildly infuriating

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u/CCuff2003 21h ago

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u/jonny32392 19h ago

I just clicked the link and the first post was tire tracks in a lawn. I think these two post need to switch places.

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u/TwinSong 18h ago

Heh yes

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u/GatePorters 16h ago

Yeah but you don’t have lead poisoning so you wouldn’t understand why it’s such a big deal.

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u/WispyBooi 1h ago

For people who care about their lawns that is like a 2 month setback

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u/MrPlautimus468 17h ago

How did you get around the fact you can't post sub links in comments??!?!?!

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u/maxman162 13h ago

Yeah, did they abolish that rule?

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u/MrPlautimus468 13h ago

No, cause I tried using the infuriatingasfuck sub link, but my comment was removed due to the link.

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u/kingSlet 16h ago

No it’s above infuriating

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u/rvralph803 13h ago

Yeah, but did you curb your infuriation?

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u/ResolveLeather 1d ago

The issue is that his name will always be associated with "found guilty of murder on Saturday". Those headlines tend to take priority on the search engine probably.

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u/aphosphor 11h ago

It's crazy that the dude will most probably struggle finding a job as well because his background check is always going to come up as him being convivted.

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u/Big-Leadership1001 21h ago

For everyone it is massively infuriating. He had to prove he is innocent instead of the legal system needing to prove guilt.

If he was a CEO the prosecutor would be fired and charged with terrorism. If he was a billionaire it wouldn't matter if they had video committing the murder in 4K hed simply never be charged. The legal system is as far from being a justice system as it can possibly get.

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u/ChanglingBlake ORANGE 21h ago

This.

It’s how a convicted felon now runs the US.

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u/Psenkaa 19h ago

Well yes, but people also chose exactly him, so sadly system isnt the only problem here

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u/ChanglingBlake ORANGE 17h ago

Yes, there are too many morons here, too.

But he never should have made it to the point where their idiocy mattered.

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u/MeanandEvil82 13h ago

America and the UK have political systems that don't care about facts or the people.

Both countries care about corporations and twisting the facts to keep the money and power right where it is.

Neither country have actual opposition.

Whether it's Republicans, Tories, Democrats or Labour, they are happy for the status quo to keep rolling. It keeps them all in power. Any change in voting systems to make things fair would harm their monopoly on the countries.

They will pretend to be different, but they really aren't. All four are right wing, just different levels of right wing.

And it's not changing in our lifetime.

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u/ChanglingBlake ORANGE 6h ago

Not without open warfare.

I thought that maybe, a very very small maybe, there was a chance before, but not when the carrot won again and people around me can’t explain why they voted for him other than “Kamala bad”

I don’t care if you vote for the person I’m not, but at least be able to explain why without regurgitating Faux News.

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u/aphosphor 12h ago

Not just those two countries, it's a worldwide trend at this point.

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u/Wheres6The9Bussy420 9h ago

They don't even pretend to be different at this point. There was no primary held for the democratic vote. And the candidate they were forced to vote for is a "centrist". What exactly is a centrist? Thats right, a right leaning democrat. So you end up with the exact same policies just with some fine print to win the minority vote. What a freaking joke. And voters are too busy playing find the racist, to actually even research their own candidates.

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u/MeanandEvil82 3h ago

The thing to remember is all Democrats are right leaning. Just not as far right as Republicans.

Sure there's outliers like Sanders, but they're never letting him have a sniff of actual power, and we all know why that is.

Same reason they had to cut Jeremy Corbyn off at the knees with blatant lies over here. It would cause problems for the rich if they were to get in. And we can't have the rich not getting their way at our expense.

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u/aphosphor 12h ago

Eh, it's a bad cycle. Too many morons leads to bad politicians being elected, which results in shitty policies and laws, so the justice system degrades and you end up with convicted felons allowed to be presidential candidates.

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u/Noctisvah 19h ago

Sieg heil to the orange adolf I guess

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u/turkish_gold 10h ago

If he was a billionaire the victim would have been charged with bio-terrorism for bleeding on his rich fists.

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u/Severe_Plum_19 9h ago

"He is so young and bright, his life shouldnt be destroyed just because of 5 minutes of fun."

u/Big-Leadership1001 1m ago

"Affluenza" was the word judges had to invent because "I've been bribed so this murderer shouldn't be punished" was too spicy to admit in court.

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u/BecauseJimmy 21h ago

There’s a Netflix documentary on this. dude is so lucky him and Larry were on footage

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u/Honey-Ra 20h ago

I'll watch that when I'm able to, but I'm super curious right now. 😀 Care to provide the 25 words or less version of how this came about?

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u/BecauseJimmy 20h ago

No rush just watch the video. I’m bad at explaining 😅

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u/Honey-Ra 20h ago

Thanks Jimmy. 😆

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u/BecauseJimmy 20h ago

Anytime 😎

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u/Reasonable_Box_2998 12h ago

Yes I watched that a few years ago and was livid for him! He was so innocent and you could genuinely tell he was a good person and didn’t do it. So infuriating that good people get wrongly accused of a crime and have to suffer consequences. I was crying with relief when they showed that footage of him at the game!

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u/user_x9000 19h ago

His fault for being poor and brown

/S

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u/Hydra57 17h ago

If I was family of the victim I’d be pissed too. It’s bad enough an innocent man is in jail, but then the killer gets to go scot free too.

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u/wirelessp0tat0 12h ago

He must have been mildly relieved when they cleared him

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u/aphosphor 12h ago

And that's all thanks to his lawyer who went the extra way and looked for him amid the crowd in the footage of the game. Imagine all the innocent people who most probably spent all their life in jail because they were charged guilty or because their lawyer backed out.

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u/SituationWitty 6h ago

At least it was 6 months. Imagine more. Without counting name defamation and more