Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!69.80.99.26.MISMATCH!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 21:08:15 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-14 (Thursday) References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:15:38 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 23 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-hGPyDE5fBS4qmHO5TZ6IxWLsOLXwB02bVzseuZBH44yn4NxT3AURmLlrHoP2E+IBPnLrJ29pESBYlvO!cZIJkKTQfOjf77kS4OYwcb3t59D8x0ruJ+R6CCD5QXT8Jo5P5M/xs7en+d33uaJ5TCKqHYe6JP2E!ggqaqLuqrWN+2Be2U988Sg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2392 In article , "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: > BTR1701 wrote: > >Ubiquitous wrote: > > >>THIS IS THE MOST HORRIFIC SCHOOL FIGHT I'VE SEEN YET: > >>A Missouri teenager was brutally beaten by a fellow student near their high > >>school. This type of violence among young students cannot keep happening. > > >And while the girl who did it was arrested, she was only charged with > >assault, not the attempted murder she should be facing. > > Is there a legal theory in which a victim can pursue a civil rights > violation if police or the prosecution refuse to perform their duties to > gather evidence and to arrest and charge? I don't know about civil rights violations but there is such a thing as a writ of mandamus, which is applied for directly at the appellate level, and which requests the court to issue a writ ordering the lower court or some other government official to do their job. > I know there isn't. There's no civil right to good government.