Johnathon McClellan, president of the Minnesota Justice Coalition, attacked the sentence as unfair, especially compared to what he said were the “many Black, brown and poor people” sent to jail to be made examples of. He was especially rankled that Chu had pleaded for empathy by invoking a quote from Barack Obama “as if that will make you and others sleep better at night.”
“Where it becomes so painful is that that mercy is not frequently shown to many other people,” Moran said. When you think about people who get more prison time for drug offenses, “it’s really hard to swallow two years for someone who killed someone.” Family members and activists pointed to the case of Mohamed Noor, a Somali American who was a Minneapolis police officer when he killed a white woman, Justine Ruszczyk Damond, in 2017. Noor was sentenced to more prison time than Potter, on a lesser charge of second-degree manslaughter.
Is it possible the issue of race was barely brought up because race wasn't an issue ? Why must everything be about race?
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