Michael Vick killed a dog he went to jail

[Hutzpa]

Plaxico Burress shot himself in a club and was sent to jail and still fighting with NFL teams to play him.

Marissa Alexander from Florida was sent to jail for 20 years for shooting the ceiling by this same Prosecutor
that prosecuted Trayvon Martin's case yet George Zimmerman is acquitted from all charges for killing a
17 years old boy and he gets to keep the gun that he used.

Where is the justice????

Try explaining this to your kids as an African American?

[NaturalHigh]

1. One thing I won't argue...

is that Michael Vick is in any way a victim. I'm tired of seeing that name tossed around as if he is some sort of martyr.

[Scootaloo]

3. No one says he is

What's being said is that if a dog can get justice, why the fuck can't a 17 year old boy?

[Hutzpa]

10. You've allowed your blind hate for one person

to cloud your judgment.

The comparison is how the justice system is displaying imbalance when it comes to justice for all black people
in America.

[NaturalHigh]

13. That's a discussion we need to have...

but it won't be furthered by trying to throw Vick's name out like he was the victim of some sort of injustice. If anything, he got off too easy, and he's now free to make more money than most people would see in a dozen lifetimes.

As for my hatred of Michael Vick - well, I try not to hate anybody. I will easily say that I loathe him, though. I have no respect whatsoever for anyone who abuses animals. While I don't follow the NFL much, I was a big fan of his when he was in college. It made me sick to my stomach when his crimes came to light.

My little Cairn Terrier has been pestering me the whole time I was trying to type this. I have to keep petting her with my left hand to keep her from nudging her nose up on my laptop. When I look at such a special, beautiful, trusting little dog, I have to wonder how anyone could ever take pleasure in such an animal's harm.

You have to be a sick fuck to be involved in dog fighting.

[Chathamization]

15. I agree that dog fighting is pretty sick, but it always struck me as odd

that there was so much outrage over the animal cruelty in a dog fighting ring but mostly silence about the much greater amount of cruelty in the meat and animal products industry. A similar issue comes up with fur clothing.

[NaturalHigh]

16. You are right.

Raising or hunting animals only for their furs is wrong, IMO. The meat industry needs a major overhaul to be even close to humane.

[Hutzpa]

17. A very good point

there again, it depends on the perpetrator. If the person doing the crime is black then the outrage will be double,
if that person is from another race then you get the full hand of the law.

This is American justice.

[allin99]

2. Michael Vick ran a dog fighting ring.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. And the dogs got justice. What's your point?

[allin99]

7. Just clarifying that he didn't just "kill a dog"...infact... [edit]..

iirc, the time he served was less related to animal cruelty than the other charges related to the ring. it wasn't justice for the dogs... his prison time was for the interstate felony charges re: to all the activities involved, not just the torture

and yes, i believe there is a lack of justice for black men in this country.

[flvegan]

14. For the record, the dogs did not get justice. n/t

[Eddie Haskell]

5. Despicable but not comparable.

Unless you think a dog's life more valuable than a young black man's?

[allin99]

8. he didn't go to jail for "killing a dog", it's the gambling ring...

that he served the majority of his time for. iirc the killing the dogs were part of the charges, but were not as much of the sentence.

[Hutzpa]

11. You failed to see the injustice

that was done to Michael Vick.

[allin99]

12. i see the injustice. He served 2 years for a gambling ring...

with killing and torturing dogs and zim got nothing for murder. It's not right. agreed.

[mythology]

6. The criminal justice system is supposed to make it hard to convict somebody

The case presented by the prosecution wasn't enough to meet the bar of beyond a reasonable doubt. Yes I think it sucks that George Zimmerman isn't going to jail, but as Benjamin Franklin said, "it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer".

The prosecution had to prove it's case. A dog fighting ring is easy to prove, as was Plaxico Buress shooting himself. It's pretty easy to point to a dog that has been in a dog fighting ring, it's easy to prove that the gun Plaxico Buress had was the one that shot him.

It's hard to prove what happened on a dark street with no real witnesses. Yes George Zimmerman was the underlying cause of any confrontation and therefore the death of Trayvon Martin, but that alone doesn't prove murder or manslaughter given the laws around self-defense. I think those laws should be revisited in light of this case, because there's obviously a pretty big flaw with them.