• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    But that’s murder! If there’s one crime I thought could always rely on to be punished, it’s murder

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      But that’s murder!

      Guy was showing off his Glock during a family get together and the gun discharged because he didn’t know how to handle it properly.

      GJ chose not to indict on the charges the DA tried to bring.

    • minorkeys@lemmy.world
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      You should look more to who runs the justice department rather than the nature of the crime. We are not all the same.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    Yeah Texas is full of trumpers top to bottom. Those of us with actual brains have to fly low or risk decapitation by the jihadi emulators behind the badges

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    That guy’s neighbours need to chip-in for a billboard. Just with her face.

    Okay. Maybe a “no justice no peace” in small print.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    What is that title? “Man who shot British woman”?? Isn’t it a lot more interesting to say “Man who shot his own daughter”? Their relationship seems far more interesting and relevant to the situation than her country of origin, wtf is this journalism? Or am I missing something?

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    10 hours ago

    Let’s see if I got this right. He gets into an argument with his daughter where he says he doesn’t care if Donald Trump were to rape her because he has two more daughters. There is obviously no coming back from thinking let alone saying such a thing.

    The next day he downs a bottle of wine and invites his daughter to his room right before she leaves back to England. In the room he claims she says she wants to see his handgun. As he pulls it out of the drawer and it just happens to go off and also just happens to be aimed right at her.

    Yeah, dude couldn’t let her live after what he had told her, it is pretty obvious. He tricks her to coming into his room where there is no witness and silences her forever.

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    17 hours ago

    Could someone please explain to me how the fuck do you kill someone, even if it’s manslaughter, and not get tried over it?

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      Grand jury, not regular jury, which likely consists of rich white men that’s a holdover from Jim crow. Prosecutors who agree with the defendent and intentionally try for charges they know won’t stay. Texas.

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      16 hours ago

      No, I’m serious, please eli5… Where I’m from, murder + suspect = a trial…

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    13 hours ago

    Have they at least taken his guns away since he’s clearly not responsible enough to own them? Oh wait, I forgot it was Texas for a second.