• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    “These folks said, ‘I would have never said anything to you before, as long as he was alive, he was a threat to me and my family, we would have never told you,’ but the fact that he is now dead gave them the courage to come forward,” Flowers said.

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      3 months ago

      It doesn’t take courage to come forward after any and all threat has passed and no justice can be done.

      I’m glad they did, mind, but “courage” is certainly not the correct word.