So where does the racism come into the case? That the driver would Not have done what he did if the boy was not indigenous or that the court would have given another verdict if he was not indigenous.
I would like to think the outcome would have been the same no matter the race or colour in the court case but I’m not colour blind either.
Tragedy either way and the man should never had put that poor kid in such a situation. Not sure 3 years is enough of a lesson though.
This is actually really interesting stuff.
You are making generalisations about indigenous people/communities just like I am. But because you make positive generalisations that’s fine.
Its only the negative generalisations that get peoples backs up.
And because you have spent some time with indigenous people that gives your positive generalisation even further credence.
But no one knows what my experience is. However it wouldn’t matter anyway because my comments are negative and that doesn’t fit the acceptable world view.
This is nothing to do with a kid on a bike being run down by a redneck.
It is to do with the fact that for some reason it is simply not acceptable to criticise indigenous people/communities.
One of their children was killed.
It’s more that those poor people with negative views tried to insert them into a conversation about fault of the death and justice when there was no other reason besides opportunistic nastiness.
Perfectly OK to criticise whoever you like, hell I do it all the time, but it doesn’t make us correct.
Suggesting that any Community doesn’t do anything to progress their children is confronting and sometimes can seem true, but unless you are part of that Community and know everyone then it is a gross assumption. You are entitled to your opinion,but it doesn’t make it fact.
And I reckon it has everything to do with a black kid on a scooter being killed by a white redneck, again just an opinion.
I agree with you on the severity of the sentencing aspect.
What type of sentence would you give to a 17yo who on the day after his release from prison stalks his victim, smashes him across the side of the head from behind causing multiple fractures to the jaw and knocking out half his teeth then proceeds to jump up and down on his head until restrained.
Fwiw, I think that there are some grounds for manslaughter, dangerous driving with he intent to cause serious bodily harm is also something that could have been proven.
Just on Scorp, as blitzes self professed arbiter of racist, I don’t think she is guilty there, her view is not even close to well enough informed to speak out on the topic given a child’s life has been lost.
She is half way to a solution when it comes to what she said about the community though, but as always people think the buck stops with the community to deal with it, or sort them selves out instead of what is happening in the community to make them so unsettled.
Which is ironic given this situation
The standard of proof was beyond a reasonable doubt. It seems that the ambulance and police cars contaminated some of the forensic evidence at the scene. If, as Saladin said, it appears that there is no culpable driving offence in WA, the Chief Justice may not have had much discretion on the length of the sentence.
Wow. Arrogant and stupid all at the same time. Glad you are the self elected judge jury and executioner of everything racist. It means I can (and have been anyway) take everything you say with a grain of salt!
I was just repeating what I recalled to have been reported on ABC News here and only because it seemed at the time that the details were not reported in the Eastern states, and in response to certain posters claiming everyone in WA is a redneck.
Now I am regretting doing so.
Which is just how the right behaves.
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Fair play but if that’s the terms they used to describe it then that’s worrying.
You simply are not following someone when the whole incident took 20 seconds for him to reach and run over the rider
So insightful. Seriously mate, an infantile response. I guess if you spend long enough here you might be able to form your own thoughts but I doubt it.
No need to regret , it shed some light. There have been so many arguments conflated, with some suggestions that the judicial process was rigged. I don’t think so.
It is a distinct issue in regard to concerns that the law as it stands appears to be wrong and if so, the reasons why it is so, together with some understanding whether the existing law discriminates on the basis of race.
However, Senator Sam Dastyari leapt to Mr Richardson’s defence.
Of course he did.
Its just awesome how you have reduced the death of a child into pushing your simplistic left / right world-view. You really are an unpleasant piece of work.
You really should get treatment for your dyslexia. Else work for Asada. Alternatively are you just trying to use this to push your own views through your incorrect criticism of others?
I’m yet to determine if your posts are as a result of deliberately being obtuse or genuine dyslexia.
As I said: Irony.
Edit: Wow, the one you posted as I was replying is even better.
Seriously mate. Suggest you actually learn to read. I’m not going to bother quoting my own initial post.
People have this weird thing where they get angry when their children are killed.
Sorry I missed that. Was it the parents? Even if it was, taking the law into your own hands should not be condoned. It’s one of the reasons the boy is dead. Had the guy reported it to the police rather than chasing him, he’d probably still be alive.