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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Multiple high ranking officers stood up and defended these asshats.
If the races and rhetoric reversed, not even the most delusional of people could think that a police commander of one of the largest cities in the USA would go and defend a bunch of white 18 year olds who kidnapped and tortured a black disabled person while yelling #### Obama. There's just no way that you would have a commander go and say "Kids make stupid decisions" an hour after that story broke. The case was handled differently, and maybe (hopefully) it won't matter in the long run, but the fact that a police commander would try to play this off as "boys will be boys" is simply disgusting and quite frankly racist.
The fact that there was even a question of whether the torture of a white person by people (I do a disservice to the rest of us by calling them that) yelling "#### white people" should be considered a hate crime, again, points to a different standard in the media. We can hope that different standard isn't applied in the courthouse though.
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Welcome to a glimpse of the kind of crap experienced by minorities in north America on the daily.