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		mistermann on July 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the pol... > If neither the civilian nor the cop can be proven to have committed a crime, they should both go free. This won't help much if the citizen is dead.

mikeash on July 26, 2015 [–]

It's a fact of our justice system (and indeed any reasonable justice system) that if you murder somebody but there isn't any way to prove it, you go free.

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