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Originally Posted by DenverChief
Comparing murder (or conspiracy to commit) to assault is not an equal argument. One is a misdemeanor and one is a felony. If you want to make beating up your girlfriend a felony by all means please write your representatives. As it currently stands this guy is no more a "criminal" than someone who shoplifts from the local grocery.
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Oh, well since it is still legal to kill a black man after dark in many municipalities and illegal to peel onions within a block of the city square in others, we should just defer to the law and not a sense of common decency that says choking out and beating a pregnant woman is a heinously violent crime.
Getting caught with 38 grams of pot? Guy is more of a criminal than Hill because the law considers possession of more than an ounce a felony.
And beating someone is not assault, according to the law, cop. That's battery. But hey, you're stationed with upholding the law, so it's totally understandable if you don't understand.
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