Plaxico Burress got two years for shooting a black man unintentionally..

[Fumesucker]

And Johannes Mehserle gets two years for shooting a black man unintentionally..

Justice is done, right?

Right?

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/11/05/us/AP-US-Train-Station-Shooting.html?_r=1&hp

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A white former transit officer was sentenced to the minimum possible prison sentence of two years Friday for fatally shooting an unarmed black man on a California train platform, angering the victim's family and friends, who demanded a much harsher punishment.

The case against defendant Johannes Mehserle has provoked racial unrest at every turn, and police in Oakland, the scene of the killing, were on alert for more problems following a sentence that many thought was too light.

Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, shouted, "Oh my!" when Superior Court Judge Robert Perry issued the two-year sentence. She burst out of the courtroom saying, "He got nothing! He got nothing!"

Grant's uncle, Bobby Cephus Johnson, said outside court: "I do believe it's a racist criminal justice system."

[virtualobserver]

1. the way that you constructed the comparison forcefully illustrates your point

Mr. Johnson is correct


Brilliant comparison.

[11 Bravo]

2. Oh, it's a lot worse than that. Plaxico shot himself! Accidentally!

Mehserle drew down on an unarmed and defenseless man, and intentionally snuffed him.

[virtualobserver]

3. I think that was the point that the original poster was trying to make....

....showing the absurdity of the two decisions side by side.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. Really, the two cases are nothing alike.

The guy Burress shot was carrying a gun.

[Fumesucker]

5. Not to mention that the guy who Plaxico shot shot Plaxico.. n/t

[Scuba]

7. LOL

[EFerrari]

6. Obscene That poor family. n/t