I remember I made the mistake of watching Trevor Noah about Rayshard Brooks, he essentially recapped the incident and tried to make excuses for Brooks or how the officers could handled things differently.
The part that stood out to me was when after Brooks failed the Field Sobriety Tests Noah said that the officers could have said "well considering all the stuff that's going on between police and black people we're just gonna call you an Uber"
In other words, Noah was saying the cops should have given Brooks a pass, despite being a drunk driver, because he's black.
The author of this piece tries to do the same, downplaying the crime committed by the two and playing up their backgrounds to make them seem sympathetic. As a lawyer myself this shit infuriates me. Because these two were given opportunities that I could never even dream of. The guy in this story went to a fucking corporate law firm and was making six figures as a starting associate. I started at $15 an hour at my first legal job and I couldn't afford to study abroad or do legal work in Northern Ireland. Granted I'm doing much better now, but I also know not to do anything that would jeopardize my career.
Honestly these two deserve to be punished, they should face felony convictions and be disbarred. Then they can live with that kind of shame for the rest of their lives. And if the courts give them a pass or knock it down to misdemeanor vandalism then I don't wanna hear about white privilege ever again.
Trump pardoning Susan B Anthony was a stupid gesture that ultimately did nothing but serve as a virtue signal.
Dems are just mad they didn't think of it first.