LE Leaks show treatment of pro BLM protestors vs conservative militias

[Dill]

(07-16-2020, 04:34 AM)Synric Wrote: Violent offenders have a high chance of escalating. 

Every crime no matter the severity should be handled to the letter of the law. Do not excuse one crime because you feel others have done worse.

??? missed the part where I excused one crime because I felt others were worse. If a BLM supporter is arrested for breaking a police car window during a protest, no court is going to let her off because a New-Nazi killed a BLM protestor a block away and the judge "feels" that's worse. 

In 18th century London, common folk were hanged equally for murder and for stealing bread.

When, with the expansion of voting rights which allowed people to have a say in their own punishment, they finally began to distinguish between more and less serious crimes and to devise punishments according to scale--e.g., ok to hang a murderer but not some poor orphan girl who stole because she was starving--there were no doubt people who argued against "excusing" bread theft.

In 2020 USA, the "letter of the law" distinguishes between criminal acts according to intent and severity of harm to others.  That is why we should distinguish between hate groups which encourage and practice killing peaceful members of another race, and anti-hate groups which don't want to kill anyone but do fight hate groups because the anti-hate groups are against murder of peaceful members of another race.

Assigning guilt and punishment according to intent and level of offense is not "excusing" one crime because others are worse, but one foundation of a just legal system.