I dindu nuffin!

[bpj]

Glad this scholar got what he deserved.

[DavidGee24]

He's sorry? Well, that's different! 30 days of highway cleanup, next case!

Cases like these showcase the pure selfishness of people. He murdered someone and all she can think about is how it affects her. Sure, she wants the minimum sentence for her son, but to just publicly stick it in the faces of the murdered guy's family like that?

Made me think of the worst example of this. Out here in 1999 some prankster teenagers stole a guy's plastic pumpkin on Halloween and after being chased by somebody else they drove back by his house, he came out with a gun, pointed it inside the driver's side window and shot the driver in the head, killing him.

He went on trial (ended up doing six years for manslaughter), and during it his wife went up to the family of the guy who was killed and said, "Can't we just put this behind us?" Holy shitballs.

[XpertDBA]

Even the defense's own witnesses said that Carmelo was the instigator and agreed he was in the wrong. Why can't the black community just act like normal human beings and show remorse and apologize that this person was murdered in cold blood. Even if the white student had pushed him around to try to make him leave the athletic tent, doesn't give Carmelo the right to stab him through the heart. I just think the black community's reaction is to the verdict is abhorrent. Kind of like I felt after the OJ Simpson verdict.

[DavidGee24]

Even the defense's own witnesses said that Carmelo was the instigator and agreed he was in the wrong. Why can't the black community just act like normal human beings and show remorse and apologize that this person was murdered in cold blood. Even if the white student had pushed him around to try to make him leave the athletic tent, doesn't give Carmelo the right to stab him through the heart. I just think the black community's reaction is to the verdict is abhorrent. Kind of like I felt after the OJ Simpson verdict.

I hope it isn't a "black community" thing and just random dumbasses, which unfortunately are of large number. You can sit there and talk about a history of oppression and so forth, but when it comes to an individual act you're either smart about it or stupid about it.

Just read where his mother said "He didn't mean to hurt him". When you pull out a knife on purpose and stab someone in the chest on purpose, what else could you possibly mean to do?