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From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Man who caused death of his passenger given reduced sentence
 for being black
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:55:39 -0400
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On 2025-04-17 3:45 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2025 at 10:41:45 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> An 18 year old who killed one of his passengers when he lost control of
>> his car while driving at ridiculous speeds - and injured the rest of
>> them - has received a reduced sentence simply for being black.
>>
>>
>> https://www.yorkregion.com/news/crime/why-was-race-of-man-who-killed-my-daughter-considered-in-sentencing-mother-asks/article_2be8e4be-27df-500e-b0dc-265a67a6da14.html
>>
>> The mother of the woman killed is trying to understand why the man's
>> skin colour should be a factor in the sentence given his flagrant
>> carelessness in operating the car. So am I.
> 
> And he was violating a parole curfew just by being out that night.
> 
Which the judge dismissed as "irrelevant" for no comprehensible reason.

> It's shit like this that pushes people to vigilantism.
> 

It would in most countries but this country only rarely rises to anger, 
at least in significant numbers. As a wise man once said: "When all is 
said and done, more will be said than done." We tend not to even do a 
lot of saying except in places that are safely ignored like YouTube 
comments.

-- 
Rhino