“Don’t mean to sound like Sharpton’s bartender, but if the kid had been white someone would have gone to jail. It’s as simple as that. No, I can’t prove it, but I believe it nonetheless.”
I don’t agree. There were black people among the defendants.
It is not about the defendants, it was about the jury. I believe they saw the victim as someone outside of themselves, someone outside of them rather than a kid that could have easily have been one of their own children. I find it ironic that they likely did not consider the race of the defendants at all. It was the race of the victim that led to this verdict.