That is quite fucked up. D.A.’s can be horribly unethical.

DNA would still show up even if you used a condom (under fingernails, skin flaking off, etc.).

Paying off an alleged victim not to testify is a felony. Why are people insinuating this happened?

You honestly believe that? Based on what? I’ve been following this story and her being paid off would only make this bizarre story even more incredible.

That’s because the main defense to those crimes is not consent, as it is in many rape cases. So news outlets should be saying alleged victim, rather than victim. She is the accuser, there is nothing alleged about that, so perhaps it’s an easier identifier?

I would say the mother opened up her daughter to such harassment (if indeed she is receiving any) by crafting a fake evidence bag and accusing the police/D.A. of breaking the law.

She can’t say in the headline that the “officer assaulted the kid” but she can say that the “video shows officer assaulting kid” without facing a libel suit. Because that’s what the video shows. Do you see the difference? “Appears to show” is some bullshit, local tv news, pandering to cops-level shit.

I am deeply committed to the concept of “innocent until proven guilty.” However, this video depicts an assault (and battery). If we lived in a country where prosecutors charged police officers with crimes, the only defense this officer would have would be a justification for why he assaulted this child (for example,…

This video shows an officer assaulting a child. Why the “appearing to assault” language? What is with this false objectivity? Why write a title that softens what this officer did to this child? The video speaks for itself. Sometimes assaults are justified (such as in situations of self defense) but that doesn’t change…

Clinton should be called out for voting for the war more than other Democrats, because she is the Democratic front runner for President. The criticism is particularly important because during Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, she supported more misguided and harmful wars, in Libya and in Syria. Moreover, during…

The title of this article makes it seem classist/racist. What he actually said isn’t.

What’s the difference? The government makes huge profits on prison-made license plates and there are certainly no OSHA regulators coming to make sure prisoners’ working conditions there are safe.

It’s because we’ve jailed more people than anywhere else in the country and then in any other time in world history for the past twenty to thirty years. People are uncomfortable thinking about how many innocent people there are in prison and the disparities faced by people of color (like Adnan) and poor people, who…

How was that your takeaway from that program? She raised numerous issues that should have left you with serious and certainly reasonable doubt of his guilt. Even if your convinced he’s guilty (because you believe our criminal justice system works despite vast evidence to the contrary), how can you be so smug about a…

You really think you helped mentally ill people by locking them up? You honestly believe that? I have worked on behalf of mentally ill people in jails and prisons across several states and they are suffering, suffering, suffering, given wholly inadequate treatments and sometimes placed in longterm solitary confinement…

You are disgusting.