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Old white guyAliya Semper Ewing
5/04/19 11:11am
Sometimes the justice system gets it right.
How is being arrested, jailed, and going through two years of hell for something you didn’t do “getting it right”? Getting it right would be “was pulled over for a broken taillight, given a citation to get it fixed in 10 days, and sent on his way”.
Or, “after the initial arrest, the da looked at the tape and the officers statement, and dropped all charges, followed by charging the police officer with assaulting a citizen.”
But the only way justice worked here was that he was lucky enough to get legal help, gutsy enough not to take the plea, and blessed that a jury actually looked at the evidence rather than just went “cops good. Black guy bad.”
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  Aliya Semper EwingOld white guy
  5/04/19 1:03pm
  How is being arrested, jailed, and going through two years of hell for something you didn’t do “getting it right”? Getting it right would be “was pulled over for a broken taillight, given a citation to get it fixed in 10 days, and sent on his way”.
  fair enough, but clearly I’m referring to the portion of the system (the jury) that stopped the bullshit.
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  EnkiduOld white guy
  5/04/19 2:00pm
  One win in the legal system proves winning is possible. If BLM had an organization like the ACLU or the FFR, they could tackle more cases and force changes.
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Brandon B.Aliya Semper Ewing
5/05/19 8:16am
My name is Brandon Burrell. I was one of Kevin Sneed’s attorneys during the trial. The States Attorney didn’t reduce the charges the second degree assault and Disorderly conduct. We went to trial on first degree assault, second degree assault, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct. The attempted first degree murder charge was rejected by the grand jury a year and a half before trial. Also the police submitted a gun a into evidence against Mr. Sneed that magically appeared a week after the incident. The gun charges were dropped the first day of trial. Trial was actually 3 days. Jury came back with a not guilty verdict on all charges in 45 minutes. Let me know if if you want to talk about the case in more detail.
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  Aliya Semper EwingBrandon B.
  5/05/19 9:31am
  Hi Brandon, thanks for reaching out. If you’d like to leave a contact email I’d be glad to talk about any corrections needed. My apologies if the story wasn’t properly detailed; I was going off of what was reported by the cited source, NBC Washington 4.
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  Brandon B.Aliya Semper Ewing
  5/05/19 9:35am
  No problem. Brandon@burrellfirm.com
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ThirdAmendmentManAliya Semper Ewing
5/04/19 10:47am
Good. And fuck the DA trying to offer a deal with no jail time to cover their asses.
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  skefflesThirdAmendmentMan
  5/04/19 10:54am
  DAs covering for the cops with bullshit pleas is the reason that the plea bargain system needs to go away.
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  IonizedDareThirdAmendmentMan
  5/04/19 11:04am
  Yes, DAs are allowed to drop the charges yet so often they offer a plea deal to save the police department’s face. If your cops are bringing you bogus cases, tell them to learn to do their damned job properly by not prosecuting citizens even on lesser charges.
  Very glad Sneed was able to fight and win and to see Black Lives Matter's role in his defense.
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skefflesAliya Semper Ewing
5/04/19 10:53am
The plea bargain system has to go. It is an incentive to prosecutorial and police abuse of the system, and it actively encourages innocent people to end up in jail. I know a lot of people defend plea bargains saying that prosecutors would end up having to do a lot more work, and that police officers would have to be far more discerning on arrests, and I say that is not a problem; it is a feature. It would make prosecutors actually look at cases properly and make cops reduce the amounts of arrests without cause knowing the prosecutors would no longer just be able to blindly back them up.
End plea bargains now!
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  dannibalcorpseskeffles
  5/04/19 11:35am
  police officers would have to be far more discerning on arrests
  i thought i had become immune to the various bullshits of the criminal justice system...but the fact that people would say this is a *negative* trait of eliminating plea bargains made me need a quick sitdown.
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  skefflesdannibalcorpse
  5/04/19 1:05pm
  Yup. The argument, as far as I can tell there is one, is that if cops had to be more careful about who they arrested then there would be this great horde of evil doers (TM Marvel Comics) which would be free to turn America into a Mad Max country. That cops supposedly need the freedom to not think about who they arrest, or why they arrest them. It is spouted by the type of folks that just like the idea of cops beating the shit out of whoever they come across, a sort of power fantasy by proxy. I don’t buy it for an instant, for obvious reasons.
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mary2957Aliya Semper Ewing
5/04/19 9:32pm
I am glad that he didn’t take a plea. He knew that he did nothing wrong. We all need to learn from this case and be smart when dealing with the law.
Yes, justice was served. But it should have been as the poster Old White Guy stated, “given a citation to get it fixed in 10 days, and sent on his way.”
I hope there is a day that this will be the norm for everyone.
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EnkiduAliya Semper Ewing
5/04/19 1:58pm
This is why BLM is important. This is why we need to crush the “all lives matter” and “blue lives matter” as the deliberate distractions they are every time they’re raised.

Rise up and demand the full and equal value of your life be recognized. Organization and funding matter. Marching is fine, but a funded legal defense and a network of social and news media connections matter more.
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Glenn WatsonAliya Semper Ewing
5/04/19 12:57pm
He is a brave and honorable man for NOT taking that deal.
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