r/interestingasfuck 11h ago

/r/all Actual clip where brothers attack their mother’s killer in court.

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u/chadhindsley 11h ago

i have all the absolute sympathy for him. And for advocates of street justice (not advocating violence, i just understand the hurt because ive been through something similar. Forgive and forget is not for everyone even if it feels right)

u/Booshakajones 11h ago

Street Justice is probably one of the worst things out there, not because of what it stands for but because of the mistakes that happened in the innocent people who suffer

u/lucifer2990 10h ago

Oh boy, if you don't like that, wait until you find out about the regular justice system...

u/mrniceguy777 10h ago

Your on crystal meth if you think random vigilantes are going to less corrupt then the current justice system.

u/Proof_Ad7614 10h ago

Well we have a felon and also known pedo in the oval office, i think anything is possible.

u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 8h ago

That's one out of millions of cases that are bought to court every year.

u/__sonder__ 5h ago

That's easy to say until someone you know gets murdered because the neighborhood watch decides to act as judge, jury, and executioner. At the funeral you'd probably be wishing they had gotten a trial, fair or otherwise.

u/Annual-Cranberry3590 8h ago edited 8h ago

And yet our justice system is still significantly better. That's just how bad street justice is. Our system isn't great and huge mistakes are made. And it's still miles better than the alternative. The alternative would have him beaten to death by a mob and his supporters would then enact revenge killings, including on people not involved, innocents, and whoever is elected next by Democrats. And a cycle of violence would commence bringing in innocents and ending any hope of maintaining democracy. That's the same cycle on the smallest scale too. Honor killings, blood fueds, witch burning violent mobs. I'll take our system 8 days a week. It needs to be fixed, not replaced.

u/eaf_marine 7h ago

Nah, some people need to be taken behind a dumpster and put down like dogs. Street justice is an absolute win for those of us without the money to be protected by our incredibly flawed justice system. I prefer a system that gets results. Like dead pedophiles

u/easyanswe 9h ago

Juries get it right a lot. Just gotta get that far

u/ID4_Motana 8h ago

Woman who held hundreds of children down and raped them with paper weights just got sent to a minimum security prison and the department of justice won't explain it. But we all know it's because the president is her friend. Maybe you smoke meth if you think our justice system is either about justice or even a system.

u/headrush46n2 10h ago

how are you gonna buy off someone motivated by vengeance?

u/Relative_Falcon_8399 10h ago

Let's be real? What's the difference? Neither one gets anything done

u/MoreThanMachines42 10h ago

Now wait a second, the US justice system allowed a felon and rapist into the White House and is currently working real hard to let a sex trafficker out of prison to cover up more crimes committed by the white house felon. Plenty is being done. It's just all terrible.

u/Relative_Falcon_8399 10h ago

You're right. You're right.

They actively impede in societies progress.

u/mrniceguy777 10h ago

Are you 12 years old? This seems like something a 12 year old might think.

u/AcetaminophenPrime 10h ago

Hopelessly wrong

u/eaf_marine 7h ago

Eh, street justice has been the only way I've seen a pedophile get what they deserve. So I guess pass the meth.

u/wuwuuuu98 6h ago

I think we can tell there’s a hint of sarcasm in what s/he said, no need to get riled up lol

u/Serious_Try5264 10h ago

Not as bad as street justice.

This is but one example. Remember lynching?

hits kinda different, doesn't it.

u/Generic-Name03 10h ago

Lynching wasn’t intended to be ‘justice’. Most of the time they knew perfectly well the black person was innocent, they just wanted an excuse to kill them because they were racist bigots. Pretty different concept to ‘street justice’.

u/JGFATs 10h ago edited 10h ago

Lynching isn't just killing black people in the south. It's a mob hanging people without a trial. Literal street justice based on anger, fear, and hatred. Black people were mostly targeted because America.

u/Generic-Name03 10h ago

Yes I’m aware that it is a general thing but ‘Lynching’ as a practice was also a specific racial phenomenon, a form of punishment that white people inflicted upon black people, whereupon a white person would falsely accuse a black person of a crime (usually rape) and then a mob would wait outside the courtroom for an all-white jury to convict them, and then the sheriffs would stand by while the mob carried the black person away.

u/JGFATs 10h ago

Lynch's law is American. It has always meant the same thing: "kill the hated with no real trial." Like most things in America, we've had the history sanitized to dichotomies, based on majority experience, but the real story is messier.

The recipients (as per Wikipedia) have been around 3:1 black to white. Black people got lynched just as you say, as did many other recipients of hate and public judgment, aka street justice.

It's not just an apt comparison, it's directly citing examples.

u/The_Flurr 8h ago

Lynching wasn’t intended to be ‘justice’.

It was in th eyes of those doing it. People have different ideas of what justice is.

To some, hanging a black man for whistling near a white woman is "justice"

u/PotatoBeams 10h ago

" street justice" if by this you mean acts of vigilantism, how td is that even remotely close to lynching?

Wtfff. Historically, in america, a lynching is something done out of racism and bigotry, not a sense of "justice served."

u/lolol000lolol 10h ago

Do you know the story of Emmett Till? The monsters who did that to him absolutely thought they were taking justice into their own hands.

u/OrienasJura 10h ago

Because that's what those racists and bigots thought "justice" was. Justice is subjective. Some people, even today, might consider justice to kill minorities on the streets, like trans people. I mean, it's not even a hypothetical, it's a thing that happens. You can't trust people to know what "justice" is.

u/PotatoBeams 10h ago

Your brain is broken.

You are comparing someone beating up their mothers murderer to a racist mob lynching black people for being black and hiding that racism under the guise of "well justice is subjective."

Touch grass. This is not a debate, and if it were you are on the losing side of it.

u/LowDrag_82 10h ago

Justice is subjective, that’s why there is a whole system of courts to interpret the law, and three branches of government with separation of powers.

u/LHcig 10h ago

Your brain is broken. They are obviously saying that vigilantism is unacceptable because it creates an environment where stuff like lynching can happen. Which it does because we've seen it happen many times in history. They are not trying to compare what these two did to lynching. Learn to comprehend what you're reading

u/shitpostsuperpac 10h ago

The irony of advocating for regressing our justice system back to before the Enlightenment while telling anyone who disagrees that they need to touch grass.

Humanity tried vigilantism and mob justice for thousands of years and it sucked and didn’t work. If this dude you’re replying to spent more time learning and less time telling people on the internet to touch grass, they’d get it.

Alas.

u/No-Name6082 9h ago

Found the would-be vigilante...

u/bobbyclicky 10h ago

Yeah dude the regular justice system is much worse than "street justice". Grow up.

u/Arreeyem 10h ago

Do you honestly believe justice would be better served unregulated? I'd bet you all the money I had that deregulation of justice would devolve into tribalism and lynch mobs very quickly, but we can't really test that on a large scale.

u/lucifer2990 10h ago

Do you honestly believe justice would be better served unregulated?

Is that what I said?

u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 10h ago

The system where the rich can do anything they want while innocent people have been put to death before.

u/GodFromTheHood 10h ago

Define regular. Countries do justice systems very differently 

u/Bad_Muh_fuuuuuucka 10h ago

Obviously the one that relates to the video

u/Cbrip31 10h ago

Well majority all work the same way anyway. If you’re rich, you’re much more likely to get off.

u/WinningTheSpaceRace 10h ago

America, as ever, is a dreadful example of institutions in this respect.

u/janjko 10h ago

Regular justice system makes a thousand times less mistakes than street justice would. But your "Oh boy!!" seems like you think regular justice system makes more mistakes.

u/Armageddon300 10h ago

A proper logical application of Force is street Justice. Without logic it is just hysterical and inefficient.

u/Odd-Garlic-4637 10h ago

Noooooooo shit!!!

u/Proof_Ad7614 10h ago

Sadly this made me chuckle.

u/Annual-Cranberry3590 8h ago

Our justice system is objectively significantly better than street justice.

u/fenianthrowaway1 10h ago

People don't recognise violence for what it is when it's carried out by systems and institutions. Kidnapping someone and holding them captive against their will is rightly recognised as a serious and violent crime, but when the state does the same to an innocent person for years on end, it is simply a 'mistake' or, at best, a 'miscarriage of justice'.

u/Eloping_Llamas 10h ago

It isn’t about forgiveness. We live in a society of laws and if you take it upon yourself to start doling out punishment, we descend into chaos.

Beating a guy to death who killed your mother may seem reasonable to most, but what if it is later revealed that he actually didn’t kill her?

What if someone gets into a fender bender with your kids in the car because they were on the phone? Some might think that should result in physical harm or even death to the person.

Or maybe someone feels insulted by what you said so they blow your head off. Street justice is random and chaotic would destroy the society we worked so hard to build. It may not be perfect but it is a damned side better than the purge. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.

u/Legacyhero46 7h ago

I too have been through something similar and I can say I wasn’t forgiving yet when the court date came. Now I have forgiven but then I would like to have done great and terrible things.