Neutiquam
You have many comments in your last post worthy of rsponses, I will go in order:
– I am not using “murder” in the legal sense. They used waht you agree is “excesive force” which directly led to death. Legally it is probably negligent homicide.
– I agree regarding Halacha.
– It is not the exact same as in court, it doesnt need to be unanimous, odds are it was a heavily biased Jury in a borough were many are related to police officers. (I am of course making assumptions but hey so are you in your last paragraph.)
– “That is democracy, that is law. ” If the law is wrong then there is a moral duty to protest in some way *This is the point YW fan originally disagreed with*
– Whats amazing about this case is it is clear, it is on tape. What I find so frustrating about this story is thta after Fergusen which was largely a he said he said (or he said she said he said she said… if you count all the eyewitness accounts) I gave the benefit of the doubt to the grand jury. I thought, as Obama and other suggested that equipping police officers with cameras would solve these issues as events would be plain for all to see. Yet here we have tape of an unarmed nonthreatening person, literally with his hands up! jumped on and choked to death. The video is widely available and the perpetrators still got off scot free!
YW Fan,
almost definitely not.