chapotraphouse

The better question would be "What did these kids "do" to be in prison to begin with?"

Burgers calling China authoritarian yet never blink for a second when a car full of 18 year olds get charged with felony murder because someone who was allegedly riding with them does a murder.

I don't think 99% of Americans even understand what the fuck those charges even entail. Literally if you had your weirdo uncle Steve with you and he decides he wants the scratch off lotto tickets for free and shoves his gun in the clerk's face (which a ton of people carry daily- welcome to Burgerland, here's your McBurger with a gun) gets fidgety, pulls the trigger killing the clerk, and runs out to your car... well, you committed a crime (potentially). According to the great nation of Burgers.

Mostly you getting charged or not depends on how much melanin you have and how "valuable" a (absolutely racist) prosecutor/judge think you/your family are to society. If you're a poor black/brown teen and that shit happens to you... welp, hope you like fighting fires otherwise you're just staring at walls for decades. You didn't even harm anyone, may not have known what was happening (not a requirement to be charged), but your ass sure as shit will be collateral.

It's a totally bullshit way of avoiding proving someone was an accomplice to murder which I would agree (assuming they actually WERE an accomplice) they should get charged with something (but lesser than murder obviously). They just say "Doesn't matter. A murder happened, you were there, guilty."

But China is the authoritarian state. Not the state finding excuses and writing laws specifically to lock up non-murderers for murder. 🤔