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JustTheNews 41 points ago +42 / -1

if they accepted the payout then he should be off the hook......they wanted the money, not the justice.

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HandshakeMilkshake 11 points ago +11 / -0

Can't have it both ways, it's a hard lesson for children to learn

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NotQuiteHuman 6 points ago +7 / -1

Criminal cases are to deal with the bad act. Civil cases are to clean up the remaining damages.

You absolutely must be able to have it both ways, or else you will literally end up with a caste system when it comes to crime.

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HandshakeMilkshake 2 points ago +2 / -0

Im not familiar with the caste system of crime

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sanitaryshave 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yes you are. How are democrats and republicans treated in the courts?

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newuser999 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yea. The cop will be tried in criminal court, and then the family will immediately sue him in civil court afterwards for "damages", but they can't win the ghetto lottery so easily by suing a private citizen who's net worth is very little. He will forever be in court or the news.

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NotQuiteHuman 1 point ago +3 / -2

So if the taxpayers of New York pay off the families of Cuomo's ten-odd thousand victims, he shouldn't suffer any consequences?

What I'm saying is, you don't understand that civil and criminal liability are different things for a reason.

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JustTheNews 7 points ago +8 / -1

The taxpayers should NOT pay cuomos victims, he should, and if he cant afford it, his organs should be harvested for their value. There is a reason why it is a republic, which protects and holds individuals responsible, not a kingdom. Imagine if I made the laws.

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NotQuiteHuman -3 points ago +1 / -4

Yes, I can see why you should have no hand in making laws, much less the only one.

You did, after all, just say that if the victim's family got a payout from the government, there should be no prosecution of the guy who allegedly did the deed.

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JustTheNews 0 points ago +1 / -1

that is not even close to what i said.....if i made the laws there would be no guy left to prosecute he would be "hung upside down and beaten to death like a fucking pinata". How you came to your conclusion from that is beyond me