Or something like that.

as somehow being "wrong", no matter how blatantly wrong the local police action in this Martin killing may be. One does not--in any way-- equate to the other. It makes me ill that animal cruelty is so often suggested (or inferred) to be "frivolous" because some horrendous crime has gone unpunished. If you really want to suggest that Michael Vick (or another high profile animal killer) should NOT have been punished, just because of the Martin situation, please come out and say it. I'm sure a lot of us would want to know that is your position.

why you choose to focus on one more than another, I'm not sure...my point is, this law needs to be revisited..period

wrong. That equating of one setting as being less worthy of justice than the other is truly repulsive. I value all life. And I will not equate one wrong with being more worthy over another-- for some perverted sense of "justice."

I think the OP said that if people are sent to prison for killing dogs then there's something wrong when people who kill other people don't go to prison. Comparisons are not always either/or situations. It's more like saying how can a legal system act like killing dogs is worse than killing people when it should be that killing dogs and killing people are wrong and should both be punished.

Did I win?

Figure that, actually investigate. Now he should have been arrested, arraigned, released on bond during the investigation and re-arrested if an indictment is issued.

The allowed him to walk, with evidence?

system" is.

I think both those things are something someone should go jail on. Our animal rights laws are already woefully inadequate for the type of abuse that animals are subjected to in our society, is that really the legal subset you want to hope up as unjust?

a systemically racist one is the answer.

Not to say that motherfucker should not have gone to jail for killing the dogs but mostly the US justice system is an exercise in racism.

"This is a case about a group of racist thugs who made a sport of targeting vulnerable African Americans in Jackson, and attacking them without provocation, simply because of the color of their skin," said Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.

"On a number of occasions, they drove around Jackson looking for African Americans to assault. Jackson is a venerable community. However, for these defendants, Jackson was 'Jafrica'; African Americans were subhuman, and their mission was to drive around Jackson looking for African Americans to attack."

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On Thursday, one day after Dedmon was sentenced to two life terms in prison after pleading guilty to murder under a state hate crime law, he, Rice and Butler were charged and pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of conspiracy and one count of violating the federal hate crime law.

None of the three gave statements but admitted they targeted African Americans. They gave brief answers to U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves' standard questions for a guilty plea.

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20120323/NEWS/303230004/3-plead-guilty-hate-crime?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CHome%7Cs

They beat and murdered James Craig Anderson. They ran him down with a F-250 pickup truck. The system does work. It's not perfect, but at least in this case...it worked.

Also, the WOMAN who flour bombed Kim Kardashian was not charged.

And I hope that someday it will evolve into something just and fair for all living things. I'd like to see the death penalty abolished entirely. And I would like to see true rehabilitation practiced. Our legal system may be better than it was a hundred years ago, but it needs much improvement.

And forcing women to undergo disgusting vaginal probes is not the kind of evolution I'm talking about.