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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the record, it’s perfectly possible to believe that the killers were at best reckless, and at worst evil, and in any event deserve a long stretch in prison, without having to buy the full package about the totally-innocent jogger or the fundamentally racist nature of America, both of which, IMO, are wrong.  [/quote]

Well, I think this needs to be put into perspective. These men felt empowered to act the way they did because the law has traditionally protected white men who kill Black men and boys. They almost got away with it! It they hadn't filmed it, or if the video hadn't been leaked, they would never have been arrested and the victim's family would have continued to scream into void without any justice.

When you are a Black man in America, there is no such thing as good enough or innocent enough.

11 year-old Tamir Rice had it coming because he had a plastic gun.

17 year-old Trayvon Martin had it coming because he fought back when followed through his neighborhood by a strange man.

22 year-old John Crawford had it coming because he picked an air rifle off the shelf at Wal Mart and carried it toward the register.

26 year-old Botham Jean had it coming because he might have smoked marijuana in his own home.

....and on and on and on. If we weren't all swimming in a racist soup, then the murderers might have felt a little less empowered to shoot to kill, and they would have come to justice much sooner. 
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