Interesting, but....
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/09...onvictions
the headline is misleading. It is far worse than that. It implies that they were "acquitted." They weren't. Most were not even charged.
Despicable performance by Georgia.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/09...onvictions
Quote:How Georgia has made it effectively impossible to convict cops who kill; 171 murders; 0 convictions
the headline is misleading. It is far worse than that. It implies that they were "acquitted." They weren't. Most were not even charged.
Quote:Not a single fatal police shooting since 2010 has gone to trial.
Two-thirds of police shooting cases never went to a grand jury because district attorneys used their discretion not to bring charges.
Of 48 cases that went to grand jury, only nine involved the presentation of a criminal indictment. In the rest, the prosecutor simply asked the grand jury to determine if the shooting was justified or unjustified.
Consequently, only one officer has ever been indicted in Georgia and less than 24 hours after the indictment, a judge overturned it. It's the Georgia way. Not one case of police murder has even gone to trial.
Despicable performance by Georgia.