• Taldan@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    In the US, deaths deaths cars are treated less harshly than deaths involving firearms. One common example used to teach about jury biases is deaths due to drunk driving. Many jury members can empathize with driving drunk because many Americans have driven after drinking, even if they were under the legal limit

    IDK if you should be calling other people ignorant if you didn’t even know that much

    • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      “less harshly” is not what the meme is OP responding to is saying. The meme is saying “vehicular manslaughter goes unpunished and you won’t even be arrested” which isn’t true at all.

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      1 day ago

      What the fuck in the George Zimmerman are you talking about? Did you fall asleep through the entirety of Black Lives Matters?

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          1 day ago

          I point out that in the USA, a dude can literally shoot an unarmed teenager with skittles in their pocket (likely 2nd degree murder or worse) and a Jury of his Peers will acquit him.