He wasn't connected with the prank in any way, aside from the fact that his skin was white. Look, if you want to be a complete tool and buy into the media's fairy tale of blacks being "persecuted and oppressed" and whites being in a caste altogether, go right ahead. Maybe had the pack leader not had a history of violence and disobedience, and had his conduct not been so animalistic, he would not be facing such a harsh sentence. But whatever, keep eating up the medias version of the thugs being saints

The white kids were punished: The school's principal found the kids that purportedly did the deed, and recommended them for expulsion from the school. These things aren't known by people though, as the media has a fetish with these kinds of stories, trying to paint them as "RACIST WHITES RAILROAD BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS SAINTS!", and they don't let those inconvenient facts get in the way of playing out their fantasies.

He didn't racially taunt them. That's common practice among blacks who get caught in their criminal activities: they've been taught to scream RAYSISM!!! Also, as standard black operating procedures, they attacked him from behind. Figures that a pinhead like you would find that whites placing a piece of rope in a tree is "worse behavior" than a gang of vicious blacks brutally attacking a lone white kid from behind, and continuing to stomp and kick him till they are pulled off. Typical pop-culture drone.

'Have a fight in school - Spend 80 years behind bars. Jim crow' - Stop referring to this severe gang beating as a fight. You're deceptively trying to minimize the reality of these criminals' actions. No one is facing 80 years in prison, but it's not surprising that an imbecile who knows nothing of this case other than the pop-culture version hes getting spoon-fed from his TV. The most violent negro, who had previous violent convictions, and was let off easy (racist town eh?), is only facing UP TO 22 yrs

The media would be shrieking "RACISM!!" and having a field day with it. The black victim would be paraded on every news outlet, recalling his horrific encounter with white racism, complete with the whole sob story making the rounds of daytime talk shows. They would be out for those white kids' blood. Yet in this case, somehow the blacks are the victims?? They somehow managed to turn this case of common black violence into a case about black victimhood and white racism. Only in America...