Man wrongly accused of rape and beaten by mob sues Philly PD
 

They've put suspects pictures out in public since forever. That's not unusual. The hope would be that if the wanted individual is seen that the proper authorities would be notified and conduct themselves professionally. Blame the people in Philadelphia. It's not unusual behavior for them either, though.

He's clearly just fishing.

ps. Move out of that **** hole.

Yes. Of course.

I DanSed you but you answered most of it.

At what point is this vigilantism a problem? When police get murdered, when cops find the suspect, they usually destroy him. Is that a problem, also? People didn't like that this guy raped a girl and were allowed by authorities to beat him down... it's just that another guy that got beat down was innocent.

So the group that captured the real rapist should have been arrested. How would that affect future relations between police and the predominately Latino community in that part of Kensington?

Whether he has a case depends on why they let the attackers off. If it was a policy decision he definitely has a case. If it was lack of evidence then he might not.

The fact they also didn't prosecute people in the second case would seem to support his case though I would have thought, but I don't know enough about the relevant law and could be there wasn't enough evidence in either case.

Cops who beat a suspect, whether it's a suspected cop killer or child molester or whatever are also breaking the law and should be prosecuted.

Vigilantism is always a problem. We live in societies where the rule of law is important. The presumption of innocence is key to that, and the punishments should be decided by a combination of legislation and enforcement by judges.

As this proves, as soon as you start to allow any viglilanism, innocent people get beaten or killed.

We had the ludicrous situation in the UK a few years ago where an angry mob marched on a middle aged woman's house because she was a paediatrician. (not a paedophile!)

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What a shithole of a city. Truly.

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