(11-08-2017 11:02 AM)MU88 Wrote:  

(11-08-2017 10:21 AM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(11-08-2017 08:32 AM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  

(11-08-2017 06:21 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(11-07-2017 04:32 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  I hope you hold yourself to these ridiculous standards.

If they are guilty they HAVE embarrassed their school and the USA. How difficult is it to NOT shop lift while in a foreign country? Doesn't take a "ridiculous standard" to avoid doing that, eh?

It is embarrassing and they should be disciplined. But jail?

They should be sent back the US immediately where they should be charged for the crime. I'm no lawyer and I have little experience with shop lifting. But I don't think we send people to jail for 3 years for minor crimes do we?

Go shop lift from LV here in the states and see what happens to you. You'll be in jail.

But remember, the criminal justice system in the United States is unfair. (Even though the USA is ranked 15-20 in the world of the past few rankings by the World Justice Project) Isn't that why the NFL players are kneeling? Also, in a recent poll, 1/2 of millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist state like China. Hence, isn't the situation where you are held for minor offenses for weeks (and even years in some cases) without charges, the lack of bail, and the potential of years in jail (and death for a gun crime), exactly what some people are calling for in the US?

While there are problems with the US justice system and there is always room for improvement, kind of goes to show you how the system operate in other places around the world. In Singapore, a teenager who pleaded guilty to graffiti, throwing eggs at cars, etc. was sentenced to 4 months in prison, fined more than $2,000 and a flogging. In Zimbabwe, an American woman is facing 20 years in prison for insulting the President on Twitter. In Egypt, a wife was caught bringing her husband his prescription pain pills. He forgot them when he left Britain. Since the drug is banned in Egypt, she is facing the death penalty for trafficking. Why are those NFL players kneeling again?

What is word salad supposed to mean? The players are kneeling because of the lack of accountability of police abuse on minority citizens.

Also you should actually learn about your own justice system since people are held for months and years without a trail. Kalief Browder at 16 was sent to Rikers where he remained for 3 years without any charges being brought against him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/nyreg...icide.html

He then killed himself after he got out.

Quote:"Kalief Browder was sent to Rikers Island when he was 16 years old, accused of stealing a backpack. Though he never stood trial or was found guilty of any crime, he spent three years at the New York City jail complex, nearly two of them in solitary confinement."