Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24098614-20180508224452/@comment-26018514-20181205191456

Masma93 wrote: We know at least than Raven did the kill and it's very strongly implied than Spring trusted Raven and than she betrayed that trust, and when Raven tried to convince Yang than it was a mercy kill she seemed to be trying to convince herself than it was a mercy kill as much as she was trying to convince Yang, plus Raven has a tendency to irrationnaly justify her actions to others as shown with her interactions with Qrow, Lionheart and Yang even when it's obvious than she's lying because she is unable to admit her flaws and because she wants to looks like the strong social darwinist woman than she pretends to be. For all we know Spring was suicidal and literally asked Raven to kill her, there is no mental institution that makes sense on Remnant, you'd pretty much just be creating a target and a suicidal guard post.

Because this kind of possibility exists, we cannot claim for certain it was an "evil act". There are 2 people who know whether or not a "trust" existed; Raven and spring, and neither have stated if it existed or was broken, Cinder commented, but has no way of knowing.