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Brickbat: Justice Is Blind

Charles Oliver | 7.19.2013 6:00 AM


The St. Louis police department fired officer Rory Bruce after he was caught on video punching a handcuffed suspect. Prosecutors charged him with assault. But a judge found him not guilty of that charge without ever looking at the video. Now, Bruce and his union are fighting to have his job restored.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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