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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Well there's certainly doubt right now. We've heard about what was written on the bullets, and the details of how that came to be written on the bullets are incredibly relevant. At some point that story is going to be spelled out, and it's easy to imagine that the prosecution can do so in a reasonable fashion, but they haven't yet. So I think we should stick with our innocent until proven guilty viewpoint, especially knowing the temptation for cops and prosecutors to lie to the public.

We already saw a multiple high profile cases this year that involved cops lying on the stand and erasing or planting evidence, and I'm not saying this is the same, but we certainly shouldn't rush to assume that anything the pigs tell us is true, especially not NYPD.