Post by Optimus on Nov 22, 2021 22:40:06 GMT -5
Now that the Shittenhouse carnival is over with, I think we'd be remiss to not turn some attention to the trial of the racist mouthbreathers who murdered Arbery.
I've followed the case as much as I can, given my workload and the fact that the trial hasn't been aired like Rittenhouse's (I think that's one reason his trial got more coverage and attention; it was much easier to get instant information on). From what I've seen, it seems clear to me that these dudes are bigoted pieces of white trash shit who straight up murdered a kid for being black and in what they deemed as the wrong place and wrong time.
Contra the Rittenhouse trial, the prosecution has seemed fairly competent, despite this being a seemingly slam-dunk case. The defense, on the other hand, hasn't been as bad as the Rittenhouse prosecution, and they haven't really made any major goofs/gaffes per se, but they've made some attempts at building a defense that I've found to be pretty disgusting.
Early on, one of the defense lawyers said he didn't want "any more black Pastors coming in here [the courtroom]" the day after Al Sharpton made his expected performative visit. Completely inappropriate of the defense lawyer to say that. He also complained that there weren't enough "Bubbas and Joe Six-Packs" on the jury. Not a racist statement, just a kind of dumb one.
No doubt, Sharpton is a race-hustling grifter (and an ignorant racist and homophobe himself, not to mention the Tawana Brawley debacle) and the world would be a better place if he would just STFU and go away, but he had every right to be there, despite it being just another one of his attention-whoring sideshows. And, of course, all this comment did was "Streisand Effect" the situation to where Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson started showing up too (the race-baiting jelly to Sharpton's peanut butter).
Latest update I saw is that the judge pretty much nuked the defense's entire case by pointing out that they were misreading (possibly intentionally misinterpreting?) the citizen's arrest law that their entire defense is built on, and that the argument they were trying to make didn't legally apply here. At this point, they pretty much don't have a case at all and I'd say that a conviction should be a fait accompli.
So, the defense's Hail Mary pass in their closing argument was to blame Arbery for his own murder, claiming it was his fault for being there (the ol' "she shouldn't have worn that short skirt" gambit). Came across to me as a callous, somewhat gross, and more-than-a-little racist "you know how those blacks are always up to no good, amirite? *wink wink*" kind of defense which makes my stomach turn just a bit.
Weird when the defense lawyers seem to be just as bad and trashy as the creeps they're defending.
If there's an acquittal, I'll firmly believe that it was a grotesque miscarriage of justice. From what I've seen about this case, those fuckers should fry (or rot in jail...whatever the max punishment is).
I've followed the case as much as I can, given my workload and the fact that the trial hasn't been aired like Rittenhouse's (I think that's one reason his trial got more coverage and attention; it was much easier to get instant information on). From what I've seen, it seems clear to me that these dudes are bigoted pieces of white trash shit who straight up murdered a kid for being black and in what they deemed as the wrong place and wrong time.
Contra the Rittenhouse trial, the prosecution has seemed fairly competent, despite this being a seemingly slam-dunk case. The defense, on the other hand, hasn't been as bad as the Rittenhouse prosecution, and they haven't really made any major goofs/gaffes per se, but they've made some attempts at building a defense that I've found to be pretty disgusting.
Early on, one of the defense lawyers said he didn't want "any more black Pastors coming in here [the courtroom]" the day after Al Sharpton made his expected performative visit. Completely inappropriate of the defense lawyer to say that. He also complained that there weren't enough "Bubbas and Joe Six-Packs" on the jury. Not a racist statement, just a kind of dumb one.
No doubt, Sharpton is a race-hustling grifter (and an ignorant racist and homophobe himself, not to mention the Tawana Brawley debacle) and the world would be a better place if he would just STFU and go away, but he had every right to be there, despite it being just another one of his attention-whoring sideshows. And, of course, all this comment did was "Streisand Effect" the situation to where Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson started showing up too (the race-baiting jelly to Sharpton's peanut butter).
Latest update I saw is that the judge pretty much nuked the defense's entire case by pointing out that they were misreading (possibly intentionally misinterpreting?) the citizen's arrest law that their entire defense is built on, and that the argument they were trying to make didn't legally apply here. At this point, they pretty much don't have a case at all and I'd say that a conviction should be a fait accompli.
So, the defense's Hail Mary pass in their closing argument was to blame Arbery for his own murder, claiming it was his fault for being there (the ol' "she shouldn't have worn that short skirt" gambit). Came across to me as a callous, somewhat gross, and more-than-a-little racist "you know how those blacks are always up to no good, amirite? *wink wink*" kind of defense which makes my stomach turn just a bit.
Weird when the defense lawyers seem to be just as bad and trashy as the creeps they're defending.
If there's an acquittal, I'll firmly believe that it was a grotesque miscarriage of justice. From what I've seen about this case, those fuckers should fry (or rot in jail...whatever the max punishment is).
