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JD.com's Billionaire CEO Will Not Be Charged With Sexual Assault (bbc.com)
In September, JD.com's billionaire founder, Richard Liu, was accused of rape nearly four months ago by a young Chinese student at the University of Minnesota. He was reportedly in Minneapolis for his studies since he is a doctoral student at the university. According to The New York Times, "the Hennepin County attorney's office said that it did not find enough evidence to pursue a sexual assault case against Mr. Liu (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source)." From the report: The office of the Hennepin County Attorney said that it did not find enough evidence to pursue a case against Mr. Liu, a 45-year-old internet tycoon who was arrested by Minneapolis police in the early morning of Sept. 1 but was released within hours and allowed to return to China. The decision could bring Mr. Liu, who founded and leads the e-commerce behemoth JD.com, back to a more visible role at the company. JD.com's stock has slumped since the accusations were revealed, and Mr. Liu, whose Chinese name is Liu Qiangdong, has skipped several public engagements.
Rich person never guilty.
" but was released within hours and allowed to return to China." - You better run, rapist. You don't have the full backing of the GOP for your crimes, tsk.
Since when do we need EVIDENCE for rape accusations? Burn him at the stake and end his career!
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Someone was not charged due to a lack of any proof to support a accusation. the headline should read "the system works"
On June 18, (1998) Richard Liu committed RMB12,000 of his savings to lease a four-square-meter retail unit in Beijing’s technology hub of Zhongguancun. Here he established JD Multimedia, the business that would eventually become JD.com.
In March, (2013) JD formed a strategic partnership with Tencent, giving JD exclusive access to Tencent’s WeChat and Mobile QQ platforms.
Four square meters of rented space to billionaire. China's like America in the 1800's.
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how about if there is not enough evidence. maybe, just maybe no crime was commited.
Why do you hate women you misogynist!?
Maybe! But that's not proven by the lack of sufficient evidence to prosecute, except rhetorically. What actually happened is not often determined beyond a reasonable doubt. Innocence is not determined by legal action except rhetorically.
Presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Was he proven guilty in a court of law?
"Presumed innocent" = rhetorically, I said that. He's not PROVEN innocent however he is considered now. Were you born unable to form granular thoughts? Good luck in law.
He could be charged at any time due to new evidence, or a civil case could present evidence at a lower threshold and "prove" that to a jury. Innocence and guilt, empirically? It's more complicated isn't it.
of having a small cock. The average chinese man has a 8cm cock. That's about 3". Not a choad either. Think: golf pencil. I mean, he's got billions of dollars or whatever but he has to sit to piss.
I agree, we can't take away actual legal presumption of innocence, yet we ought modify how the general public takes that rhetorically and runs. The accused are not PROVEN innocent until PROVEN guilty, just CONSIDERED so.
Or my name is Bill Cosby.
There is a protection against double jeopardy (although fed and state are independent legally.., must mention) so to say someone is PROVEN innocent is possible, they have to survive being charged + win at trial.
You would be surprised if you knew how actually DIFFICULT it is to prove someone guilty of a crime in the real world, assuming no smoking video gun or tapes or something. I myself have acquitted 3.
Of those I am sure 1 was guilty of "something" but it simply wasn't provable given the evidence and the law. So he walks free to this day, that's our system and I am ambivalent but supportive of that facet.
We did not arrive at empirical innocence or guilt, only as-presented and as-agreed by 15 strangers under a very specific set of (bullshit mostly) criteria. If I had a better system no doubt I'd be screaming about it.
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Kamala Harris, and Hillary Clinton will be sharing a cell in the gulag soon. Yay gulag!!!1!
Hysterical Democrat gulag enthusiasts sure do love false accusations of rape.
ALL "date rape" is FAKE rape.
"See : Donald Trump, as yet unindicted co-conspirator (under sealed Grand Jury indictment)" You are mistaking politics for something else happening here. Nice try though.
Ah, but there was evidence.
Key pieces of evidence:
1. Her accusation.
2. His denial.
3. Body cam footage/audio from responding police.
4. Statements of witnesses.
Based on all that evidence, the prosecutors decided that there was inadequate evidence to prosecute. Another way to put it would be that enough of the evidence was exculpatory that a conviction would be highly unlikely, in their opinion.
By that logic, since there is not enough evidence to prosecute you, then legally speaking you aren't not guilty of raping me. But something tells me you feel differently when the shoe is on the other foot.
The important progress here is that law enforcement was called in. I'm tired--very tired--of colleges and universities, companies, football teams, and other private entities making a big deal out of internal investigations. Wrong. If there is a an allegation that is exactly what the justice system is for.
Bill Gates is a communist -- he's just more equal than the rest of us.