If Daniel Penny was not a white Marine veteran, do you think the RW would be championing him?

[f_townsend]

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Not a chance. If Penny was, for instance, a black non-veteran, they wouldn't give a crap about the legal predicament facing him right now. DeSantis, for one, would be grifting for dollars and attention from something else.

The charge is about right -- unintentional killing of a human being. And with the video, he's facing an uphill challenge in court. At least one onlooker warned Penny that he was close to killing Neely with the chokehold before Neely went limp. But the jury will decide all that; Penny should be presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

Penny has been released from custody after posting bond. So here's another question: why isn't the RW screaming about how bail reform is letting criminals loose on the streets? Penny is charged with a violent crime -- the killing of a human being. Is the GOP a big fan of bail reform now?

[SCantiGOP]

1. They would be calling for his head

If he were black and the victim white.
Your first sentence is right - it is purely racist.

[JI7]

4. no, they would just not care mostly

[Maru Kitteh]

8. A black man who took down and killed an unarmed white male Marine on video

in the subway? Even though the white man had never touched anyone?


they would care. they would care a lot.

[walkingman]

2. It's disgusting. The worship of white people that murder others and the dismissal

when it involves people of color is so typical GOP of the last 50 years. Throw in calling someone a veteran and you have almost a deity. Fucked up!

[Deuxcents]

3. Justice is supposed to be blind but they gotta drag politics into almost everything

Why isn’t the RW as interested in matters that concern the betterment of society ?

[Silent Type]

5. Some of the white wingers will calm down with evidence of non-threatening

actions by the victim. Question is, how many? (I’m assuming there is no evidence supporting that use of force/restraint. Ain’t seen it yet.)

[karynnj]

10. I think many RW might consider even his known (non threatening) actions as threats

because his actions and appearance made them uncomfortable. That discomfort, in their mind, added to all their biases, translates into seeing him as a potential future threat. For those out of state RW people, it being on the subway might have added to the threat level.

Contrast that with a white marine being someone they are comfortable with even when he responds with aggression when it was not called for.

[RockRaven]

6. The RW cheering is more based on the person killed than the person killing, IMO...

If he were a black marine vet who killed a black man on the subway they would still be cheering. Maybe even more enthusiastically.

[Celerity]

7. +1

the majority of white Trumpers want to go back to the days of open black lynchings by the bucketful

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. The answer is obvious.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

11. no, I don't. A white man killed a black man... some are celebrating under the cover that it was

justified killing of a criminal. but what they are secretly celebrating is the killing of a black man

[NotVeryImportant]

12. Hell. No.

It's a celebration by the racist white of, yet another, black killing.

Plain and simple.