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In reply to the discussion: Was it a fair sentence? [View all]

Dreampuff

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8. So glad I'm not the only one who was thinking the sentence was too light.
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 05:43 AM
Feb 2022

I was actually hoping for 7 years.

It does sound like there will be a civil suit and I hope they win big, even though it still won't be true justice. The timing was unbelievable since just a few miles away, the trial of George Floyd's murder was in progress. Since she had been an officer for 26 years, it won't be easy to blame it on training and after learning about the differences between the taser and the gun, the mistake doesn't really make sense either.

Unfortunately, I only caught a small segment of Ben Crump's statement, but he brought up the fact that a black officer shot a white woman and got 12 years. It didn't sound like "Justice for all" to me.

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