Kasz216 on 15 July 2013
| Mr Khan said: Something really should be happening to this guy. I doubt he had lethal intent, but it's clear that he needs to learn that guns kill people, and that if it hadn't been a black teenager he killed, he would have gotten in a lot of trouble |
You can bend the race anyway you want. The case was just a weak case. It was a loser pretty much anywhere. You MIGHT get a conviction if it was a white kid and a black offender, but even then the odds would be against it... and it'd be a case of the jury getting it wrong based on the law.
If their is any societal takeaway from this, it's asking about how culture effects our deicision making. If it was a white kid would he have made the same choices?
The one group of people who knew exactly how this would play out were trial lawyers. (Which is why news networks often brought in out of state non/trial lawyers to comment on the case.)
