Apr 17, 2025 10:44 PM
(This post was last modified: Apr 17, 2025 10:49 PM by C C.)
Switching "privilege" to the other side, for a change. An area for DEI that one might not normally consider.
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Why was race of man who killed my daughter considered in sentencing, mother asks?
https://www.yorkregion.com/news/crime/wh...6da14.html
EXCERPTS: Some of Amelia Bal’s final words were pleas to the driver of the vehicle she was sitting in as it hurtled through suburban roads to please, slow down. Her unease was understandable, given the car was travelling at up to 237 km/h at points of the journey, sometimes on wet roads with temperatures hovering around -5 C.
Her fears were confirmed when the driver, Brampton’s Denrick Rose, then 18, lost control and smashed into a light standard on King Road, in King City. Bal, who was seated closest to the point of impact, would later die from blunt force trauma to the head, chest and pelvis. Others in the vehicle sustained a broken neck, back, shoulder, pelvis, a skull fracture and brain bleed.
[...] Rose was sentenced to four-and-a-half years for dangerous driving causing death, three years for bodily harm offences and one year for breaching his release order.
Bal’s mother, Christine, believes the sentence is too light, saying Rose should have received the same sentence as someone convicted of manslaughter — a maximum of a life sentence — given how many times he was asked to slow down prior to the crash.
[...] When asked about the judge taking race into consideration, Demar Hewitt, executive director of Black Legal Action Centre, said Black people are overrepresented in the criminal justice system. “It is difficult to say how being Black contributed to Denrick’s circumstances of this case,” he wrote in an email. “Black accused receive disproportionately higher sentences for comparable offences.”
He added that presentencing reports or impact of race and culture assessments (IRCA) allow the judge to take into account this historic disproportionality and ensure that a Black person’s right to equal treatment is protected, no matter the offence.
Justice Ghosh, in his sentencing, said young black men are overrepresented in all aspects of the criminal justice system, including being victims of gun violence. “I find this satisfies the ‘sufficient connection’ between race and offending to warrant applicable mitigation of sentence,” the court heard.
Rose, now 19, has spent extensive periods of time volunteering, even winning awards for these endeavours... (MORE - missing details)
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Why was race of man who killed my daughter considered in sentencing, mother asks?
https://www.yorkregion.com/news/crime/wh...6da14.html
EXCERPTS: Some of Amelia Bal’s final words were pleas to the driver of the vehicle she was sitting in as it hurtled through suburban roads to please, slow down. Her unease was understandable, given the car was travelling at up to 237 km/h at points of the journey, sometimes on wet roads with temperatures hovering around -5 C.
Her fears were confirmed when the driver, Brampton’s Denrick Rose, then 18, lost control and smashed into a light standard on King Road, in King City. Bal, who was seated closest to the point of impact, would later die from blunt force trauma to the head, chest and pelvis. Others in the vehicle sustained a broken neck, back, shoulder, pelvis, a skull fracture and brain bleed.
[...] Rose was sentenced to four-and-a-half years for dangerous driving causing death, three years for bodily harm offences and one year for breaching his release order.
Bal’s mother, Christine, believes the sentence is too light, saying Rose should have received the same sentence as someone convicted of manslaughter — a maximum of a life sentence — given how many times he was asked to slow down prior to the crash.
[...] When asked about the judge taking race into consideration, Demar Hewitt, executive director of Black Legal Action Centre, said Black people are overrepresented in the criminal justice system. “It is difficult to say how being Black contributed to Denrick’s circumstances of this case,” he wrote in an email. “Black accused receive disproportionately higher sentences for comparable offences.”
He added that presentencing reports or impact of race and culture assessments (IRCA) allow the judge to take into account this historic disproportionality and ensure that a Black person’s right to equal treatment is protected, no matter the offence.
Justice Ghosh, in his sentencing, said young black men are overrepresented in all aspects of the criminal justice system, including being victims of gun violence. “I find this satisfies the ‘sufficient connection’ between race and offending to warrant applicable mitigation of sentence,” the court heard.
Rose, now 19, has spent extensive periods of time volunteering, even winning awards for these endeavours... (MORE - missing details)