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Originally Posted by Kjesse
The amount of outrage on Twitter over this is surprising. I think manslaughter would have been an appropriate verdict also, as its not really clear why the gun became pointed at the kid's head, but in the end the circumstances of the case led the jury to not want to even do that. The thieves had a gun with them which they broke trying to steal a truck on another farm, and it had 5 bullets, one in the chamber.
Stanley grabbing his gun was prudent.
The thieves' testimony was so completely unreliable I imagine the jury discarded most of it. They were all so drunk they couldn't remember what happened and between them each had a different set of facts including the gender of the person holding the gun. They each drank more than a 26 oz of spirits that day!
Its very sad this kid died. Those with him should have been charged also (attempted theft, impaired driving, etc) but its seems the RCMP took it easy on them.
There are plenty of natives posting on twitter there could be no trespass because it was native land, that just makes them look silly.
Trudeau is a milquetoast on this trial with his tweet.
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At the end of the day, the witnesses were so lousy that it was almost impossible for the Jury to know what happened, hence reasonable doubt.
I guess any appeal might be around the judges instructions more then anything else.
The fact of the matter is the Crown is probably going to be forced to appeal the case due to undue command influence, and there's a good chance that another jury will find the same verdict, which will inflame things even more.
And the whole he didn't own the land, is just so much BS.
Trudeau really needed to shut his mouth, I mean I get it, he wants to be the cool Prime Minister that hugs puppies and is all for every politically correct cause. But in this case, he should have said that he had faith in the process and courts, and if you have any questions you can start there.
Now he's basically encouraged whatever is to come.
Look there's no doubt that there's a systematic problem with the false sympathy in terms of a bunch of stupid kids acting like idiots and making people feel threatened. But the idea that if there was a native judge or a native stacked jury making the verdict different shows a perverse misunderstanding of the justice system and that verdicts should be arrived at to make people feel vindicated or revenged is just wrong.
The sad thing is that the farmer and his family have been threatened because of this verdict, which coming from and to an extent being encouraged by native leaders is just as reprehensible and is going to encourage a cycle of violence.