Indeed, both Black and Mark Steyn argued in these pages on Saturday that American criminal justice is deeply corrupted and regularly grinds up the innocent. I never shared Black’s faith in American justice. Did we forget that in 2007 at the Vancouver airport, Robert Dziekanski, a disoriented man, was shocked with a Taser five times by RCMP officers within minutes of their arrival on the scene, killing him? “Framing” is exactly the right word in the Norman case. The criminal justice system is a powerful bureaucracy largely insulated from oversight, precisely to protect it from political interference.

Source: National Post May 22, 2019 15:11 UTC