The Brazilification of America?

The story of the "former transit police officer who allegedly shot dead an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform" — Ex-Oakland transit officer is arrested — brought to mind of the opening scene of a great film, Central do Brasil (1998), in which a young thief is shot by a guard execution style after stealing a small radio from a vendor in a train station. In America, at least, such murderers are still brought to justice.

But how many self-styled "conservatives" will read that it was a "Johannes Mehserle" who shot an "Oscar Grant" and conclude that the latter got what he deserved, no matter that "Mehserle fired into the back of 22-year-old Oscar Grant while the man was lying facedown," because he probably would have gone on to commit some other crime? Just what principle of Common Law such "conservatives" claim to "conserve" I do not know. On a similar theme, an old post of mine — Crime Prevention Incompatible With Anglo-Saxon Law.