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In reply to the discussion: How do they get away with it?? [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)32. I don't think that bozo who killed Martin was a member of the elite.
He went to trial. FL had a "stand your ground" law and all that. Didn't it go to a jury trial? The courts don't always get it right, as we know. But they get it right most of the time, probably.
Emmit Till was an entirely different matter from Martin and Epstein. It was institutional corruption (based on race) that prevented the murderers from being held accountable. Not murderers who were members of the elite or esp. well connected. It was racism, pure and simple.
Epstein's case is one of a powerful, rich, connected man. Like Bill Cosby.
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Acosta knows how about upward mobility. He also knows about abusing children,
Eyeball_Kid
Jul 2019
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