If Metcalfe were black, would their response have changed? That is the question the people upset over this need to be asked.
Honestly, I think that Carmelo got a reduced sentence because he is black. If he’d stabbed a black teenager, he’d have gotten life. And it wouldn’t have made anything more than local headlines.
I am going to say probably not. I am going off of what happened a few years ago where a black minor female tried to stab a black woman because she told her to do the dishes.
A police officer shot the minor female because she would not drop the knife.
The media claimed it was "just a knife fight".
Problem is that a knife fight can only happen if both are armed. Only one has a knife and pursuing, the other unarmed and retreating, not a knife fight.
Any kind of violence can be excused if your culture says it can.
Which is where the problem lies.
Good point.
Politics and ideology heavily play a role in our justice system.
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No it would have made national news as a racial attack. Anytime a white person kills a black, it is ALWAYS portrayed as racial, riots occur, and the white man gets a longer sentence than any black man.
FACTS!
There wouldn't have been any protests, either.