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JTekashiro posted...

I'm sure if the roles were reversed the 31-year-old black man would have also gotten away without charges.

I'm sure if the roles were reversed and the 31 y/o black man did escape charges, all of the complainants in this topic would be completely silent or actively defending the decision.

JTekashiro posted...

At least his family has a lot of evidence for the civil trial.

Given that he's been cleared in the accident itself, it seems unlikely. Wrongful death suits require the motorist to be doing something wrong. If the cops established he wasn't speeding, he wasn't intoxicated, he wasn't using his cell phone, and the guy walked into the road, you're not likely to win a civil trial since all of the evidence you're talking about is in the boy's favor. In fact, the whole thing driving this controversy is his callous and racist remarks *after* the event. And, short of a slander/libel case, you can't really sue over mean words.

Even if you found a judge who thought this conduct afterward was so egregious that they were willing to ignore the facts of the case so far, it would likely get appealed to another judge who would throw it out.
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