Ok. I get it legal system. This is a make-up call for OJ. Like in sports when the ref blows a call, and he makes up for it on the next play by favoring the team the unfair call went against. On the cosmic scale of racial injustice, we're just about back to reconstruction era mentality -- when blacks were technically free, but couldn't own property.

The head of the police officers’ union, Patrick Lynch made an interesting statement this morning:

"Every time a police officer goes on the street there is never a script. We have to deal with circumstances as they come."

Fair point, suspiciously-named Mr. Lynch. We need to write a script for how to deal with people loitering outside a night club. Allow me to mock up a draft:

1. If you see a loiterer outside a night club, most likely he's planning on murdering you and your family. Fire a warning shot. Aim for the soft part of the gut where there is less of a chance of hitting a major organ.
2. Has the loiterer not scattered after your warning shot -- even though your first shot cut him down? Fire a second shot. Aim between the eyes.
3. If the perpetrator is black, fire an additional 47 shots.

Now that the script has been written, we won't have to keep up this charade of investigations and trials.

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