Idk, maybe my heart is on my sleeve today but I would have liked the anchor to talk to the victimized business owner before going live on air about it. If he did that, he would've known that the kids already made restitution for the theft per an agreement.
If the kid was dodging responsibility, then stick it to him. But he doesn't deserve to get humiliated for something that was already settled.
Contacted by the Daily Mail, Payne’s former boss Bob Cavanagh said the young man had “always felt so terrible for what he did” and he was an otherwise “good kid”. He had also offered to pay him back.
After the Stefanovic interview, Cavanagh told Sky News reporter Matt Cunningham he did not proceed with police charges at the time, opting instead to talk to the boys and their parents and they agreed to work for free on weekends.
My problem with that "leniency" is that he only got away with that because he's Aboriginal...
I guarantee you a white male of the same age and in the same circumstances would not have been treated the same, by either said boss or the police. Guarantee you.
Idk, maybe my heart is on my sleeve today but I would have liked the anchor to talk to the victimized business owner before going live on air about it. If he did that, he would've known that the kids already made restitution for the theft per an agreement.
If the kid was dodging responsibility, then stick it to him. But he doesn't deserve to get humiliated for something that was already settled.
My problem with that "leniency" is that he only got away with that because he's Aboriginal...
I guarantee you a white male of the same age and in the same circumstances would not have been treated the same, by either said boss or the police. Guarantee you.
Which makes the boss, at best, a hypocrite.
That is my problem with that approach.
The boss is treating the Abo kid like a misbehaving dog while any white kid would have had the book thrown at him.