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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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What are you talking about? Nobody was defending the group, the question was whether it was a hate crime (not a crime in general,
which absolutely nobody disputed). Hate crimes are in addition to assault etc, not in replace of, and are not handed out lightly because they're hard to convict on. Both officers called the video horrible, disgusting, a crime, said they were investigating, etc. You saw defense in that?
I think it's a big stretch to point to an moment of a white high-ranking police officer saying "We don't have concrete evidence to know if it's a hate crime or stupid ranting and raving" when four black kids beat up a white kid, following up by charging them with a hate crime, and call it "racism" against white people. That's not racism.
You want an actual example of a boys will be boys defense? Look up Brock Turner. Want an example of why you can't just listen to a couple words when someone commits a crime and assume motive? Look up Omar Mateen.
Otherwise, the actual truth is that white men get the benefit of the doubt in the media much much more than any person of colour ever has.