re: Man who killed Wayde Sims wants a bond reduction - he is sorry

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"Sir my reason for writing this brief notation is to inquire and ask of you to please take into consideration as for giving me a bond reduction,

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Sounds like how one of those Nigerian Email scams start.

Penny Hardaway hasn't aged a year!

With no other details? Some would. Not most. But wait...

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A black guy involved in a fight

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That’s not what people knew in the Sims case. People knew he was a college student with a famous alumni father and that no drugs or alcohol were causative.

Suppose “this board” (that awful use of collective identity) heard news about a fight that broke out in Shenandoah where one guy shot another guy. Don’t you think this board would make assumptions about them being “white trash” or some such negative stereotype?

My point is that details matter. If a “fight” breaks out between two dudes and one of them gets shot, that scenario is not part of the “normal culture” of the people who post on this board.

Lacking many details, assumptions will be made which will be culture specific depending on the neighborhood. That’s just how humans roll, unless they’ve trained themselves to consciously not jump to conclusions. When I saw humans, I mean blacks, whites, asians, hispanics, you name it.

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mean yeh, I am agreeing with you

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Not exactly.

1) You’re forgetting that people knew more details about the victim in this case. Not just that he was an LSU star athlete. If he was just Johnny Noname who was a black LSU college student and the fight wasn’t over drugs and he wasn’t drunk and he was unarmed and he was in a fistfight then got shot by the other dude, people here would not likely call him a thug.

2) You weren’t just making a matter-of-fact statement. You were accusing the posters on this board of racism. My point was that it’s not racist to jump to assumptions based on limited details. It’s part of being human, of all races.

So my point is - quit being a race-baiting racistz

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$350,000 bail

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If I were the judge I would write him back and say,

"After careful consideration of your case and this lovely note, I have decided to change your bail. It is now $500,000.00."

Sincerely,

Judge Johnson

Tell him if he can beat Skyler Mays to 11 one on one, ok. If not, he pleads guilty to the 2nd degree murder charge and saves the taxpayer money on trying his arse.

piece of trash can rot in jail

It’s not like his son was gonna grow up with a good father anyway so what’s it matter he is in prison for life.