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 **** 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.