Twenty-five-year-old Bijan Ghaisar was unarmed when he was shot in his car by two officers. Charges against the men were dismissed – but seven years on his mother Kelly is still fighting for her boy
I don’t really blame the lawyers, that’s their job to defend you when you hire them or get assigned them in the case of public defenders. Pretty important part of having a fair system, but the obvious conflicts of interest for judges and prosecutors that are baked in to this system when trying to hold police accountable for their constant atrocities make it vanishingly far from a fair system for those in the working class.
I don’t really blame the lawyers, that’s their job to defend you when you hire them or get assigned them in the case of public defenders. Pretty important part of having a fair system, but the obvious conflicts of interest for judges and prosecutors that are baked in to this system when trying to hold police accountable for their constant atrocities make it vanishingly far from a fair system for those in the working class.