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Re:Scientists Back Kiera Wilmot by Tweeting About All the St... by mseebach on Friday May 03, 2013 @01:40PM (#5651421)
And she is the first black kid to do this? Sample size is too small.
Re:Scientists Back Kiera Wilmot by Tweeting About All the St... by KirinDave on Friday May 03, 2013 @02:07PM (#5651614)
It is probably not too small given the prosecutors behavior.

Still, you can't say, "The sample size is too small" in this case. The trials are ruined human lives. It requires we be more proactive. Sometimes we will overcompensate, that's the nature of the beast, but we cannot accumulate a statistically significant number of ruined lives to make decisions because most people only get one and if you take that in the name of answering the question, "Is a prosecutor in sub-urban Florida REEEEALLLLYY Racist?" it's probably not going to go well.

This case doesn't exist in a vacuum. Google around; black kids are in general handled much more roughly by the police and prosecutors.