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Require a Trial By Jury in Every Case Where an Unarmed Citizen is Killed by a Police Officer

Created by J.C. on December 04, 2014

It has been demonstrated in well-known cases such as the deaths of Mike Brown and Eric Garner that the use of a grand jury to determine whether an police officer should be indicted when they kill an unarmed citizen is a recipe for the miscarriage of justice.

Please do everything in your power to make it a requirement that every time an officer kills an unarmed citizen, the case is tried before a jury in a proper courtroom trial.

Recent events have shown beyond a reasonable doubt that the grand jury process is flawed and open to manipulation. Please fix this dysfunctional part of our justice system by making a trial mandatory when an unarmed citizen is killed. The families of the fallen deserve to have a chance at justice.

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