Nafissatou Diallo deserves her day in court. If a jury is convinced that her past behavior makes her unbelievable in this case, so be it, But the decision to try or not to try should not be based on the prosecutor's calculation of his chances of losing and thus hurting his reputation. Any damage that a case would cause to the reputation of a rich and powerful defendant should be of no more importance than the damage to the reputation of a poor and powerless accuser. Yet in America today, the opposite is true.
How ironic that on the same day that we finally unveil a monument to Dr. Martin Luther King, perhaps our nation's most powerful voice against militarism, racism and economic injustice, we also witness the actions of the justice establishment showing us just how far we still have to go.
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