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‘Slaps on the wrist’ for white men who watched friend throw black man onto train tracks

Country music fans flooded out of Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa., after a concert with Tennessee legend Kenny Chesney.

Outside, people were streaming into the nearby subway station. Among them was Kevin Lockett, an African American man who walked along the platform pulling a cooler in one hand.

That’s the last thing he can remember with absolute certainty. The rest only comes back to him in bits, pieces and violent flashes.

He heard a racial slur from a group of men, and the next thing he knew, he was being thrown onto the train tracks.

After Lockett lifted himself back onto the platform, surveillance footage shows, 21-year-old Ryan Kyle started beating him. Another 21-year-old, Matthew Laplace, pulled his cooler away.

“I knew we’d find this nigger,” he recalled someone saying. 

Four men involved in the incident — Laplace, 22, Kenneth Gault, 22, David Depretis, 21, and Christopher Laplace, 23 — were variously charged with aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation, theft, reckless endangerment and criminal conspiracy. All four are white.

Gault and Depretis pleaded no contest and were sentenced to six months probation; Matthew LaPlace pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 months probation. All are required to perform 100 hours of community service to benefit a minority community.

“There’s no punishment,” Lockett told with a shake of the head, calling the sentences “slaps on the wrist.”

“The way they would look at if five black guys jumped one white guy. Nobody would be going home. Nobody would get 100 hours of community service”

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This is so disgusting…it was a HATE CRIME & they were all guilty of complicity & involved by virtue of standing by & using racial slurs. Why was a plea bargain offered? When it is a HATE CRIME they should be all going to prison. You ever notice white boys and cops only jump on 1 lone black person?? You never see a couple of white boys or cops go up to 5 or 6 black guys and start problems.

#Racism #HateCrime #America #Justice #BlackLivesMatter

however it’s fucking white people and they get community service.

THIS IS WHY THE BLACK PANTHERS EXISTED BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE STREET JUSTICE IS NEEDED. IF THE LEGAL SYSTEM IS GOING TO MAKE IT EASY FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO PREY ON BLACK PEOPLE AND BLACK LIVES, WE HAVE TO TAKE SHIT INTO OUR OWN HANDS. THIS IS WHY WHITE PEOPLE HATED THE BLACK PANTHERS BECAUSE THEY’D BE ON THE HUNT FOR THESE ASSHOLES GUNS IN HAND.