“I’ll be with a white girl.”I glanced across the table at my friend. The marine, Daniel Penny, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, the New York Times and other news outlets reported. Would Penny even felt it necessary to allegedly use what ended up being deadly force on Neely had he been white? There should never be a world where a 16-year-old Black girl has to tell her father she’ll be safe getting coffee because she’s going with a white girl. We keep criminalizing people with mental illness,” Sharpton said, according to the New York Times.

Source: New York Times May 23, 2023 18:39 UTC