Originally Posted by
MindofShadow
Eh, I feel like people miss the part with John.
It isn't that he killed a terrorist. Whatever, no big deal honestly.
It is that he killed a terrorist WHILE IN THE UNIFORM. He was Captain America, he has higher standards. He is a symbol... chasing an unarmed dude down in a foreign country and killing him in the middle of the street surrounded by people watching isn't Captain America.
Hell, even a regular solider can't blow a person away in the middle of a city who has his hands up. (only american cops can get away with that shit lol....)
Bucky and Sam afterwards didn't go, "you are going the jail." They simply said give up the shield (aka uniform) because he failed as a symbol.
John didn't go to jail afterwards for murder, he was discharged from the military.
No one cared he killed a terrorist. They cared how he did it while being Captain America.