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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if the driver’s family has a crisis management / PR attorney helping them navigate this. If so, I can only assume they would tell the family and the family’s friends not to post disparaging accusatory things about the victim’s family’s response to the nearly non-existent criminal consequence imposed on the drunk driver. It increases outrage and reinforces the optics that the victim’s family’s interests were not taken into adequate consideration. Defending the prosecutor has the same effect, even if it’s motivated by a desire to show that the prosecutor’s decision was in line with what other prosecutors would have done. For purposes of persuading the posters here - that’s never going to be a winning argument. This is a website heavily populated by local parents, and can I tell you what every parent’s worst nightmare is? Having their child killed by a drunk driver and the driver all but getting away with it. Probably best to let the victim’s family freely air their grievances even if you think you have some great counter argument about rational decisions and juvenile Justice etc.[/quote]

Oh I’m sure they have some sort of PR strategy, the mom is a lobbyist. Her LinkedIn profile shows she’s still active by the way. Looks like there was about a month where she didn’t post 5 months ago (likely in the immediate aftermath of Braylon’s death). But then she’s right back to smiling photos about her job. Gotta keep up appearances to cash those paychecks $$$ to pay the lawyers to keep her kid from experiencing any actual consequences.

It makes me feel ill to think about. And tbh as a parent myself, I’m not sure I could just keep on posing for photos and living on normally knowing other parents are in grief because my child selfishly killed hers. All because I couldn’t tell my druggie kid no to having the car keys. I’m guessing the murderer didn’t hear no often. But life continues as normal for his family.

The funny thing is I think if he actually had to face the music and was charged as an adult/spend a few years in prison, public perception would be more in their favor and that justice had been done. The boy could have paid the price, turned his life around, issued some public apologies and spent time teaching HS kids about the dangers of drunk driving. I remember before my prom someone who had killed someone in a DUI came and did a presentation in our auditorium.

But the way things are going so far it just comes off as the killer’s family circling the wagons around him, and the CA downplaying the charges. He will carry the stench a la Brock Turner of being an entitled piece of garbage because he didn’t have to actually own up to his actions in any meaningful way. [/quote]

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