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Richard Rojas, another victim of self-driving cars.
Forget about SADS – what we need to be talking about is SAAS: Sudden Automobile Autonomy Syndrome.
For some reason, cars are becoming sentient and going on rampages. Perhaps not surprisingly, these cars are always driven by brown people, the racial disparity strongly implying systemic racism on the part of sentient cars.
Most famously, last Christmas, an SUV being driven by a black man became sentient and ran over a bunch of old people and kids having a Christmas parade.
But that is not the only case. SAAS is happening with increasing frequency. Unfortunately, the only thing that scientists have been able to determine for a fact is that vehicular sentience is not caused by the coronavirus vaccine.
AP:
A man who drove his car through crowds of people in Times Square in 2017, killing a young tourist and maiming helpless pedestrians, was cleared of responsibility Wednesday because of mental illness.
A jury in New York City accepted an insanity defense claiming Richard Rojas was so psychologically disturbed he didn’t know what he was doing.
The judge has said the finding would qualify Rojas for an open ended “involuntary mental commitment” instead of a lengthy prison term. He ordered Rojas held while he drafts an examination order, and said there would be a hearing on the matter Thursday.
Rojas, 31, was accused in an attack that injured more than 20 people and killed Alyssa Elsman, 18, of Michigan, who was visiting the popular tourist destination with her family.
The jury was instructed that if it found prosecutors had proven their case, it also had to decide whether or not he “lacked responsibility by reason of mental disease or defect.”
Rojas’ attorney Enrico DeMarco called the verdict “right and humane,” adding that winning over the jury was an uphill battle “because it was such a horrible act.”
The trial, which began early last month, featured testimony from victims who suffered severe injuries from what prosecutors labeled “a horrific, depraved act.”
On the defense side, family members testified how Rojas descended into paranoia after he was kicked out of the Navy in 2014.
That Rojas was behind the wheel of the car was never in doubt. Multiple security videos showed him emerging from the vehicle after it crashed. That put the focus of the case on his mental state.
In his closing argument, prosecutor Alfred Peterson conceded that Rojas was having a psychotic episode, including hearing voices, at the time of the rampage. But Peterson argued Rojas showed he wasn’t entirely detached from reality by maneuvering his vehicle onto the sidewalk and driving with precision for three blocks, mowing down people until he crashed.
Insanity pleas were bullshit from the beginning. It’s like a “hate crime.” Only people who are mentally unsound commit murders in the first place, because the cost-benefit analysis makes no sense. (The only time this is not true is in the case of blacks killing each other, because of the black code of never talking to the police. Southside Chicago murders are basically never solved, especially in the case of drive-bys.)
Just like the only reason you would murder someone is hate (assuming you’re not a contract killer or involved in a drug war over turf), the only reason you would risk life in prison to carry out an act of hate is if you were mentally unsound. When these insanity pleas were first introduced, they were given out arbitrarily by juries, or perhaps on the basis of how sympathetic they found the victim. Now, they’re being used to enforce a two-tier justice system where brown people are not really punished for anything (other than anti-Semitism, of course).
This can also just be a scam. Lawyers want to win, because that is their job. I don’t think you can change that. You have to have lawyers who do their job. So lawyers will coach their clients and help them put together the insanity plea. Again, I don’t blame the lawyers – their job is to do everything they can do to defend their client, whether they are guilty or not. Maybe defending murderers who you know are guilty is a scummy profession. I think it is. But it’s necessary. The problem is that these insanity rules are on the books.
Motive is important in establishing someone’s guilt, and that’s all. If everyone agrees the person committed the crime, the motive is no longer relevant, and everyone should get the same punishment for the same crime.
I believe in bringing back the insane asylums. I don’t think people who are severely mentally ill should be on the streets, and closing these asylums was, in fact, insane.
