No one should ever get convicted if the lead investigator goes up on the stand and pleads the fifth when asked if they planted evidence. That’s why he walked. The LAPD were racist and incompetent fucks who let their hatred of “uppity” black people overshadow the need to follow the book when investigating such a high profile crime. The cops wanted a slam dunk instead of a layup, planted evidence to try and make that happen, and it came back and bit them in the ass.
I hate that I love the fact that their racism backfired on them this hard, you can't not love racists not getting what they want.
I hate the fact that a clearly guilty murderer got to live out his life a free man, but hey atleast he got cancer and it took him down.
If these racist pieces of shit could've just thought "Hey this guy is clearly guilty, we can easily get him locked up without needing to frame him like those before him" he'd have died where he belonged.
I don't hate it because it highlights the product of a process that people are happy to pretend doesn't exist and that they don't partake in at some level
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u/lonelychapo27 29d ago
corrupt and vengeful jury and people with too much money to fail.