If the initial investigators had access to the video, they should face consequences, just like Kyles should. Both cases were obvious given the video.
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I don’t think the existence of video was tnt’s point.
Bryan and the McMichaels weren’t arrested until two and a half months after Arbery’s death. The first two DAs who looked at the case refused to bring charges.
If it wasn’t for the fact that Gregory McMichael released the video to a local radio station, apparently under the impression that the video would exonerate his son, after Arbery’s family had created enough of a local buzz - they would have gotten away with it.
The first DA has already been indicted for obstruction of justice.
Good, systems works but not perfectly.
In this particular case, the system didn’t work until it’s hand was forced.
Without a lot of work on the part of Arbery’s family, and stupidity on the part of Greg McMichael, none of us would have ever heard Arbery’s name.
Glad it came to light, what process replicates it?
Oh easy answer ubiquitous state observation. Most effective anyway.
Or maybe we do one case at a time.
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What’s not perfect about a corrupt DA being indicted?
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Is that a system that doesn’t work or a corrupt person in the system? How should the system be modified so that this could not happen again?
The corrupt people are part of the system.
“Modifying the system” is not as simple as you make it out to be.
No they are not … Corrupt people are an aberration to the system. If the system was corrupt, this corrupt DA would not be facing punishment.
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District Attorney is a position of authority - significant authority.
In a “perfect world,” it wouldn’t have taken 3 DAs and 76 days for them to have been charged. The fact that it all worked out in the end isn’t a panacea for how the system failed in the process.
That’s the wrong conclusion. The system worked in spite of the best efforts if the corrupt DA. If the system was actually broken, he would have gotten away with it and those three men would be free.
The system is just people filling roles.
Some of those people will be corrupt. Some will be racists. Some will be just be dumb.
The system doesn’t exist as a platonic ideal.
Two district attorneys reviewed this case and didn’t bring charges.
It wasn’t an aberration.
What system doesn’t have any incompetent and/or incompetent and/or dishonest people?
Math.
But other than that sort of thing, none of them.
Then why would you consider a system that roots out and punishes corruption within its ranks to be broken? Regardless of the hitches along the way (primarily to that one DA’s corruption) the system worked exactly as it should … with Justice for both the defendants and the family of the dead man and for society as a whole.
Math does not have people running it, and it is not a system of government.
Because I believe the evidence shows that the system failed to “root out and punish” the corruption within its ranks.
It did not.
But it is nevertheless a system.
People are the relevant factor.
