Because fuck NYT

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/gov-murphy-pardons-son-of-nj-powerbroker-who-was-convicted-in-deadly-hit-and-run/4336762/

Unsurprisingly the same Governor that made plates and insurance mandatory for all e-bikes. Guy had a busy week as he was leaving office apparently.

Issuing this pardon before the jury had even rendered the verdict. Funny how mountains can be moved so expeditiously when it's for a friend.

Not just a rich man, the nepo baby of a Democratic party power broker, apparently

FTA:

“Unfortunately, when politics pervades justice, the rule of law becomes subordinate to influence and power…a conviction can be rendered meaningless not by the verdict of a jury, but by the intervention of political power and connections,” the ACPO spokesperson wrote. “Justice must be blind to status, relationships, power, and expediency; when it is not, the community loses faith in the very system meant to protect it.”

It would been a shame if karma bite that guy in the ass and he got assaulted in the street and left for dead.

NBC is actually a much worse company.

Pictures of the victim and his family/friends, no pictures of the dickhead or his piece of shit father in either article. Interesting.

Image search of Harris Jacobs Joe Jacobs brings them all up if you want. I'm not likely to run into them from 3000 miles away.

But if I did, I wouldn't flee the scene like a coward.

I'm sure the pictures are not hard to find, which speaks to the journalism.

I hope that it haunts him every day and night. He should be put in prison, he fled the scene and killed someone. Prison.

Thanks. NYT is paywalled.

I just don't understand, are these politicians really that stupid? You do shit like this when the general public is more cognizant of distrust in government institutions, you start building factories for more Luigis. If your average normies are experiencing a noticeable and tangible decrease in standard of living, are personally and physically seeing more live protests, are constantly seeing a stream of authoritarian moves from the government, and you pile on this blatant miscarriage of justice seen from both major parties, where do you think people are gonna turn to for justice? And when you're this public and blatant about it, who's head is on the spike first, historically speaking? I really don't think everyone is prepared for the consequences of continuing down this road, because participation in the consequences will likely be much more mandatory than they have been historically.

Well give that fucking family OJ treatment cant pardon away a civil suit. And since he was found guilty well then take that fucking families wealth.

6'x8' is too big, maybe 1.5'x6' will fit better

I just realized that the knowledge I have from newspapers from my youth no longer applies. They no longer put the most pertinent info near the top, but at the bottom. Burying the lede is just the default nowadays.

The governor pardoned him almost immediately after the jury came back.

The power of the pardon is so fucking stupid. Make prosecutors and cops and judges accountable for legal malpractice, and make legislators include negating convictions as part of legislation that changes a law.

They believe they can get away with it because nothing that bad has happened yet. Like most people, they don't think it long term consequences and these things build up over time, build momentum until they can't stop it. But then it's too late.

It doesn't help that like most people they're comparing themselves with their neighbors and peer group to try and outdo each other. And in their case it's not who holds the best backyard barbeque but it's a gala on their yacht. And like most people don't think too much about the cow who's meat is now on the grill, they don't think about a few thousand workers they swindled out of their wage.

The article is so poorly written. I can't believe people pay for this kind of garbage writing.

Its clear pardons are a major component of institutionalized corruption and should have some kind of formal review process by legislative bodies.

Here's a similar story from a couple years ago about a racist piece of shit who shot and killed a protestor, was found guilty by a jury of peers, then governor and likely klan member Greg Abbott pardoned him.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/texas-gov-abbott-pardons-ex-army-sergeant-convicted-of-killing-black-lives-matter-protester-in-2020

Here's a quote from Daniel Perry on social media before he murdered someone at a BLM protest in cold blood:

"I might go to Dallas to shoot looters."

And

The friend replied to Perry, “Can you catch me a negro daddy", and Perry responded, “That is what I am hoping.”

Abbott pretended it was a self defense killing when Perry drove up, shot his victim who was pushing his girlfriend's wheelchair, the drove off. It didn't hold up in court so he lied about it in his pardon. Murderers and would-be slavers, Abbott and Perry deserve a long drop and a short rope. Pardons are a mockery of justice by jury decision.

You forgot about how humid it was.

So what is the point of juged by your pears. Or is it we are not his peers cause we poor.

It won't money has a way of hiding that.

How so? I'm not that familiar with either of them other than knowing they are news outlets.

I don't have a problem with the writing style. Doesntseem like AI to me.

Here is another case of a connected rich man killing a poor innocent, and going scot free. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FmbwU3J-2kk

Bob Dylan - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll

We can not allow 2 justice systems to exit. If the law isnt equal for all, then what is it? What is the point?

The government wants our taxes, but refuses to represent us or protect us. Thats not what i signed up for. Thats not american. Thats not worth defending.

I really like the idea of invalidating the law if a pardon was issued. I immediately wonder how fascists would use it as a weapon somehow.

you already have 2 systems… it's time to act to destroy them and fix it

They pardon someone for being a pedo.

Maybe your plan wouldn’t work so well.

Vigilante justice.
It doesn’t always work out.
Occasionally it does.
Just saying.

Oppression and control. Protection of the wealthy from the poor.

And the influence over it.

Sometimes the law makes the wrong decision and at those times, something can be done to correct that. That's all I'm saying.

And sometimes they don’t.
Perhaps we give pause and take a moment?
Then maybe lady justice will do diligent service and we can collectively knuckle bump and call it a win?😃
I’m not in a hurry.
Let’s see what a civil court says?
Six dollars & my left teste says it will be settled ultimately after much dickering for a non disclosed amount.
I reckon justice has a dollar amount set as an affirmation.
And there still will be the divide.
I am not exactly thrilled about this btw.

To go further, it IS worthy of contempt, hatred, and VIOLENCE DESTRUCTION.

OPPRESSION MUST BE MET WITH AN EQUAL OR GREATER REACTION. EVERY TIME.

Unfortunately, we never were. They have just stopped pretending at this point.

American justice. Best justice money can buy.

Vigilante justice. Chomping at the bit to dole out a death sentence based on a 34 word post title on a website.

I didn’t say that. You said that. What the hell is up with the death sentence talk?

Holy shit, that article is tedious to read. Nowadays "good writing" seems to mean "jump around in the timeline a lot and write a whole lot of irrelevant backstory".

Vigilantes can't put people into jail.

No, but they don't have to murder them either.

True dat!

I nominate this bastard as a potential resident of Luigi's mansion.

Should America be reformed, there should be a rule about pardons: A governor initiates the pardon, then 51% of all participating voters has to reject the pardon to prevent it. Further, the pardon's effect is restricted to their state. A presidential pardon is national, but again requires 51% of participating voters to deny it.

This form of cancelling vote allows decision makers to have reasonable autonomy, but if voters vote against it, the pardon is easily denied by the public. The voter pool is whoever sends in a vote of yay or nay. So if there are people dedicated to preventing a leader from making bad pardons, they can get out the word and swell the pool of rejection votes.

IMO, we should have open-sourced digital and standardized direct voting on all matters, with physical laminated printouts for verification against the digital votes. Everyone attached to a city can vote there, those who live in a state can vote on state matters, and occupants of the nation can do the same on that level. No gender or qualifications, beyond having a residence within the nation, and having citizenship - regardless of how it was obtained.

The Tarantino Method, they call it.

Oh, I'm sorry. I was stereotyping vigilante mobs.

Testing the new lawlesness apparently.

To be fair, pardons exist for cases such as The Hurricane