Quote Originally Posted by ninian opinian View Post
This verdict does in no way give a baying mob the right to destroy property. If someone is found not guilty of murder, it doesn’t give another person the right to coming murder.

No precedent has been set, that’s not how the law works in this country.
but we are saying that as society found the statue offensive, the mob we ok to pull down the statue , as we can all see that criminal damage took place, they pulled a statue of a plinth and slung it in the river, yet they were found not guilty