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Originally Posted by station
Do you guys actually know what empathy means? It’s the ability to understand how someone is feeling from their perspective.
This incident and trial contain racial tensions. You can deny it and say it’s not right but it’s there.
Regardless of circumstances, criminal or not, a young man lost his life and the perpetrator won his freedom on a technicality. A family and a community now feel the pain of injustice and can we really blame them?
You can declaim about the fairness of the trial and the justice system, you can pour over the minutiae of the incident to justify the veridict, you can breathlessly bemoan liberal media, and you can rant about criminals and self defence, but seriously what is the point? What is to be gained?
Tensions are high, emotions are high. We have a checkered history (at best) with indigenous relations and overt racism still exists in modern (especially rural) Canada. Maybe we could just stop and listen for a minute, you know?
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He wasn't found not guilty on a technicality. The Crown didn't have evidence to show the intent required to support a second degree murder charge and based on the evidence, the jury didn't find that his actions met the standard of manslaughter.
The family and the FSIN have been pushing a very specific narrative since the day this happened, going so far as to denounce RCMP statements surrounding the case, and it focused solely on race and not on facts.