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Woman Who Refused to Work With Prosecutors Didn’t Want to Send Another Black Man to Jail

Regrets. We all have them. Well, maybe not Rhamell Burke, who showed no remorse in court on Saturday after being charged with second-degree murder after pushing a 76-year-old retired teacher down a set of New York City subway stairs and killing him. Burke, who's been arrested four times since February, was all smiles, according to The New York Post:

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What's really infuriating, though, is that a liberal woman who refused to cooperate with prosecutors after Burke had attacked her now has regrets, knowing that he went on to kill a man. Something in her just didn't want to see another black man go to jail, she told The Post:

Joe Marino and Anna Young report:

“I regret it 100% and I actually feel really bad that a man lost his life,” the woman said.

“Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail, but, you know, at some point, if you are a criminal, you’re a criminal, and he was scary, he was a scary guy.”

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Maybe not, though. They probably would have let him go.

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That's hard to argue. Suicidal empathy crossed with the revolving-door "justice" system will get us all killed.

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