• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he overlooked the “by the victim” and probably was talking about the media.

    Your larger point still stands, that given the reported facts, it seems pretty apparent that the old man was scared by the person in large part because the person was black. I don’t know why he wants to die on the hill that race didn’t matter when the old man said seeing a large black man scared him enough to shoot.

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      6 months ago

      “Large black man.” Checking the photo in the article yeah that’s a teen boy. Image search for “Ralph Yarl” kid looks even younger in more candid shots.

      Fucking of course there was a racial element, you have to deliberately close your eyes to pretend otherwise.