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Just a few bad red apples! (media.piefed.social)

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The jury agreed with Adams's arguments and acquitted six of the soldiers after 21⁄2 hours of deliberation. Two of the soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter because there was overwhelming evidence that they had fired directly into the crowd. The jury's decisions suggest that they believed that the soldiers had felt threatened by the crowd but should have delayed firing.[73] The convicted soldiers pled benefit of clergy, the right to a lesser sentence for a first offender. This reduced their punishment from a death sentence to branding of the thumb in open court.[74]

[–] teft@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago

This reduced their punishment from a death sentence to branding of the thumb in open court.[74]

That's a hell of a reduction.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with your original meme. The British soldiers really were reasonably well disciplined and the colonists really were threatening them. The incident wasn't an example of British oppression. I suppose that one might say that the two convicted soldiers were "bad apples" but I suspect that they might not have been convicted by a less hostile jury.