Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/01/the-man-who-killed-a-woman-after-a-wrong-turn-into-his-driveway-gets-25-years-to-life.html
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Imagine, I know it is difficult and turns the world on its head, but, just for the sake of argument, imagine that he didn’t have access to a gun. Crazy, right, but Kaylin Gillis would be alive, and Kevin Monahan wouldn’t be spending the rest of his life in prison. Guns, eh? Enabling destructive urges since they became practical.
Yippee. But this still highlights the bias our judicial system has against BIPOC when they are victims of crime:
He likely would have been acquitted in FL.
Why does it seem like just existing in the US is a capital offence if the wrong person sees you doing it?
Expect to see him in the next Trump cabinet as Secretary of Defense.
It seems so because it is so. And I hate that a lot.
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