CPT Tripss
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But you would agree, I think, that the success rate isn't 100% with other other such prosecutions either? Sometimes the "bad guys" get off, sometimes the evidence doesn't support the charge... and sometimes the "bad guys" are really innocent.
I would argue that by his declaration that he perceives, as an African-American man, a perpetual "open season" on "us" that indeed he feels that such killing are, and can be, committed at will with impunity.
Convictions in felony cases overall are darn close to 100% . . . acquittals are down in the low single digits. Acquittals in these high profile LEO cases is a lot higher.