It's absolutely infuriating that no one is being prosecuted over this.
Meanwhile, Kalief Browder was jailed without trial for three years — for allegedly stealing a backpack. We truly do have two justice systems.
Meanwhile, Kalief Browder was jailed without trial for three years — for allegedly stealing a backpack. We truly do have two justice systems.
Getting a bit Saudi-Arabia-ish here, but seems like the law would look, if not like this, then more like this, if it weren't written by the guy who made the $46 million.
Or do you mean prosecuted for coming up with an idea that is in poor taste but was never actually implemented?
There are laws on the books to charge individual officers for corporate actions, practically never used. They could have been used on paint company executives, who had forestalled a ban, in the '40s, on a promise to phase out lead, and absolutely did not, and tobacco executives, who actively sought to addict children. Arguably, sugar industry executives merit such treatment for actively suppressing research indicating sugar has been directly responsible for millions of deaths, and for heavily marketing to children.
But any bozo who shoots up a bus station apparently merits overwhelmingly more attention, so the executives directly responsible get to retire unbothered to their yachts.