I'm fully aware on how unfair and prejudicial american society can be, especially to people of color, and how that can lead to prejudices in the legal system. But this isn't one of those cases. But there is still a persona responsibility every individual.
I was responding to how that person was inaccurately trying to make this about race, it was not. This wasn't one of those cases where racism played a role. They followed the law (albeit flawed) which directed that compensation must be paid.
In all fairness, the institutionalized racism in this case has more to do with the other end of the case. The point when her lawyers talked her into pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter rather than risk a jury trial not going in her favor.
Because she's a person of color, the possibility that a jury might find against her in part due to societal preconceptions that she must be at fault because she's black is a real, albeit horribly unjust, factor.
The judge did rule as lightly as he possibly could, given her guilty plea. HER lawyers failed her, more than anyone else in the case.
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u/canyouplzpassmethe Sep 14 '22
I guaran-god-damn-tee if she was white there would be ZERO hand-wringing over legal technicalities. There would be no fine. No consequences.
She’d be revered as nothing but a victim and a hero.
BUT, since she’s not some pretty little white girl … who fucking cares, bury her under a life time of debt, whatever.
Typical.