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The Jury Chose Peace Over Justice

By Dennis Prager

Even those who have argued that the punishment of the two police officers in the Rodney King beating case was unjustly lenient must now argue that the Williams-Watson verdicts also were unjustly lenient. After all, these people constantly argued that the two cases were morally identical.

The jurors didn't want more rioting (and didn't want to subject themselves to personal mortal danger). So, they chose peace over justice. The question for our society is: What price peace?