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Nobody investigates or is legally held responsible for killing unrelated pedestrians with motorized vehicles.

Reminds me of the Freakonomics podcast "how to get away with murder"... it was all about how killing a pedestrian is prosecuted so seldom, it's absurd. Even in cases where the drivers are negligent (by their own admission!) are rarely prosecuted.




It's another way poor people lose their rights. Why didn't the family, who must have know what the poor guy was doing, didn't prosecute or appeal? Because they were immigrants, didn't want attention on them, whether they were legally here there were probably people around them. These poor people are almost like slaves. They can leave, but they don't have civil rights, they can't safely tell the police about mistreatment.




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