There’s no punishment #Justice #Racism
‘Slaps on the wrist’ for white men who watched friend throw black man onto train tracks
Country music fans flooded out of Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa., after a concert with Tennessee legend Kenny Chesney.
Outside, people were streaming into the nearby subway station. Among them was Kevin Lockett, an African American man who walked along the platform pulling a cooler in one hand.
That’s the last thing he can remember with absolute certainty. The rest only comes back to him in bits, pieces and violent flashes.
He heard a racial slur from a group of men, and the next thing he knew, he was being thrown onto the train tracks.
After Lockett lifted himself back onto the platform, surveillance footage shows, 21-year-old Ryan Kyle started beating him. Another 21-year-old, Matthew Laplace, pulled his cooler away.
“I knew we’d find this nigger,” he recalled someone saying.
Four men involved in the incident — Laplace, 22, Kenneth Gault, 22, David Depretis, 21, and Christopher Laplace, 23 — were variously charged with aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation, theft, reckless endangerment and criminal conspiracy. All four are white.
Gault and Depretis pleaded no contest and were sentenced to six months probation; Matthew LaPlace pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 months probation. All are required to perform 100 hours of community service to benefit a minority community.
“There’s no punishment,” Lockett told with a shake of the head, calling the sentences “slaps on the wrist.”
“The way they would look at if five black guys jumped one white guy. Nobody would be going home. Nobody would get 100 hours of community service”
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This is so disgusting…it was a HATE CRIME & they were all guilty of complicity & involved by virtue of standing by & using racial slurs. Why was a plea bargain offered? When it is a HATE CRIME they should be all going to prison. You ever notice white boys and cops only jump on 1 lone black person?? You never see a couple of white boys or cops go up to 5 or 6 black guys and start problems.
#Racism #HateCrime #America #Justice #BlackLivesMatter
#StayWoke
oh fuck! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST
“The way they would look at if five black guys jumped one white guy. Nobody would be going home. Nobody would get 100 hours of community service”
hell right
fucking probation for jumping an innocent man…im so done with white america
What the actual fuck. I'm disgusted
