[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  LTL Media [@letstalkliveytc](/creator/twitter/letstalkliveytc) on x 11.6K followers Created: 2025-07-18 11:38:18 UTC This week former Massachusetts State Trooper Kristopher Carr pleaded guilty to a crash that killed 50-year-old motorcyclist John Bishop. Carr had been drinking. He crossed the center line. He killed a man. And for that, he was sentenced to just XX months behind bars. The rest of his 2½-year sentence? Suspended. No felony on his record. No prison, just county jail time. Probation. A license suspension. Let’s be clear, John Bishop doesn’t get probation. He doesn’t get a suspended sentence. His family doesn’t get the luxury of reduced consequences. They get a life sentence of grief. So the question we all need to be asking is: Why does this keep happening in Massachusetts? Why do we keep seeing officers, troopers, and those tied to law enforcement get deals that the average person would never dream of? Is this the state of police accountability in our Commonwealth? Is justice now negotiable if you wear a badge? We talk a lot about public trust. About transparency. About rebuilding faith in the system. But how are we supposed to believe in the system when the outcome feels predetermined? When a plea deal reduces a fatal DUI to a slap on the wrist, just because the defendant used to wear a uniform? And what does this tell future officers? That if you mess up, even catastrophically, the system will protect you? That justice isn’t blind, it just looks the other way when it’s one of their own? John Bishop’s life mattered. His death deserved a full measure of justice. And right now, many are wondering if he got anything close to that. We’re going to keep asking questions. Because if we don’t, no one will.  XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [lithuanian litas](/topic/lithuanian-litas) [Post Link](https://x.com/letstalkliveytc/status/1946172674931052723)
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LTL Media @letstalkliveytc on x 11.6K followers
Created: 2025-07-18 11:38:18 UTC
This week former Massachusetts State Trooper Kristopher Carr pleaded guilty to a crash that killed 50-year-old motorcyclist John Bishop. Carr had been drinking. He crossed the center line. He killed a man. And for that, he was sentenced to just XX months behind bars. The rest of his 2½-year sentence? Suspended. No felony on his record. No prison, just county jail time. Probation. A license suspension.
Let’s be clear, John Bishop doesn’t get probation. He doesn’t get a suspended sentence. His family doesn’t get the luxury of reduced consequences. They get a life sentence of grief.
So the question we all need to be asking is: Why does this keep happening in Massachusetts? Why do we keep seeing officers, troopers, and those tied to law enforcement get deals that the average person would never dream of?
Is this the state of police accountability in our Commonwealth? Is justice now negotiable if you wear a badge?
We talk a lot about public trust. About transparency. About rebuilding faith in the system. But how are we supposed to believe in the system when the outcome feels predetermined? When a plea deal reduces a fatal DUI to a slap on the wrist, just because the defendant used to wear a uniform?
And what does this tell future officers? That if you mess up, even catastrophically, the system will protect you? That justice isn’t blind, it just looks the other way when it’s one of their own?
John Bishop’s life mattered. His death deserved a full measure of justice. And right now, many are wondering if he got anything close to that.
We’re going to keep asking questions. Because if we don’t, no one will.
XXXXXX engagements
Related Topics lithuanian litas