You're cherry picking. Maine has half the population of Chicago. More importantly, Texas is 20x the size of Maine, and represents over 8% of the population of the US.
Certainly I'm cherry picking, but that's the point. It's not that Texas is inherently bad but that it's ridiculous to compare all of the US with one broad stroke. Maine and Texas and Chicago are vastly different places and the US shouldn't be painted with broad strokes.
Texas is where nearly 1 out of 11 US citizens live, and there's nothing that I see about this case that's unique to Texas. You can narrow your criticism to his house or his bedroom, and exclude Texas from blame too, if it's important to be that reductive.
The unavoidable fact is that what happened in Texas happened in the US. If Texas started segregating lunch counters and water fountains again, it would be legitimate to criticize the US for that, too.
edit: To be more specific, why are you blaming Texas for what happened in Travis County, Texas?
I'm not blaming Texas or anything else. I'm saying that the commenter, said that the US was too dangerous to visit because of the justice system. I was pointing out that the US has vastly different state with vastly different systems and painting the entire US as the same is an incorrect statement.
Could this have happened in Maine? Sure though it's vastly more likely to happen in Texas or other state with a higher rate of in-prisonment.
When someone says, hey, the US is a really terrible place, saying "But this one (or five) states in the US aren't quite as awful!" is making their point for them.
edit: I do not agree with the U.S. justice system being third world level; I just don't think the differences in states are relevant here when the average across all of them is so terrible on this particular metric.
