2 ✌🏾 things a white shooter gets that a black victim doesn’t:
1. The benefit of doubt
2. Presumption of innocence until proven guilty (and sometimes even after that)
Call it what you want but, #oneofthesethingsisnotliketheother#Repost therealearthquake with use.repost
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A white man in his 80s is the individual who apparently shot and seriously wounded Ralph Yarl, a Black teen, on April 13 in Kansas City, Missouri, according to a CNN review of property records, police statements and detention records.
CNN is not naming the man at this time, given he has not been charged.
Two representatives at the Kansas City Police Department detention unit read the man’s booking information to CNN over the phone. They confirmed the man who was booked on an investigation hold was a White man in his 80s and his home address matches the address where the shooting took place.
The representatives also noted he was taken into custody on April 13 just before midnight and was released less than two h...