Man Gets 90 Days For Murder

WABC:

Officer Andrew Kelly plead guilty to vehicular manslaughter in Brooklyn Criminal Court on Wednesday.

Kelly’s attorney said his client did a lot of soul searching, and wanted to avoid both families a painful and long trial.

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“He apologizes with me, and then I accept his apology, so I believe he was sorry for what he done,” Pastor Varius Valnord, the victim’s father, said.

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Kelly struck a deal just a week before the case was set to go to trial and plead guilty to second degree vehicular manslaughter.

His sentence was 90 days in Rikers. Initially, he faced up to 7 years in prison.

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Kelly may only end up serving 60 days of that sentence.

This story is ridiculous. This whole judicial system is ridiculous. Policemen are above the law. The officer says he admits that he had been drinking beer the night he “plowed into [the victim] in his Jeep.” He was not just drinking beer, he had drunk enough to kill a full-grown woman.

And now, after driving while completely inebriated and murdering somebody, he gets ninety days in jail. What the hell? I also love that it says he “admitted he had been drinking beer,” because that means a breathalyzer wasn’t administrated that night. Policemen can get away with whatever they want because they’re policemen. And the judges obviously let them.

Who on earth was the judge presiding over this case? Who on earth accepted this horrible plea bargain? The district attorney should be immediately disbarred. I cannot believe this man may only have to go to jail for sixty days for going on a drunken rampage and killing someone.

And also, Andrew Kelly was not “sorry for what he done;” Andrew Kelly was sorry he got caught. This is the most outrageous example of abuse of the justice system I have ever seen, and I’ve seen policemen play video games on duty, one cop liberally use the N-word, and a police officer arrest a man for being black.

But the answer is simple: pay police officers more money. Police officers provide a service to the community that endangers their lives everyday. The problem is that they are not paid their due. Instead, they are “paid” in power. They can literally commit misdemeanors, and in some cases felonies, with little or no consequences. This is the problem with the justice system.

But in the meantime, they should have to follow the law like everyone else.