Honestly?
At that stage, he was not a burglar in the eyes of the law. He was a suspected burglar, and therefore innocent.
Moreover, even if he was guilty, he has a right not to face an arbitrary beating: he has a right to trial. And he has a right for any punishment that is mandated by the judge at that trial to be (a) proportionate and (b) within the constraints of minimal decency. Here, there was no trial, no judge, no process, no proportionality and no decency.
But apart from that, you're completely correct.
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At that stage, he was not a burglar in the eyes of the law. He was a suspected burglar, and therefore innocent.
Moreover, even if he was guilty, he has a right not to face an arbitrary beating: he has a right to trial. And he has a right for any punishment that is mandated by the judge at that trial to be (a) proportionate and (b) within the constraints of minimal decency. Here, there was no trial, no judge, no process, no proportionality and no decency.
But apart from that, you're completely correct.
( , Thu 3 Feb 2011, 13:54, Share, Reply)