Man with Aspergers gets murdered, killer gets 4 years.

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Unfortunately there are lots of random acts of violence in the UK, most of them alcohol or drug fuelled but a lot just because someone snaps. I don't think people should be afraid they're being targeted as I doubt this guy had any idea what autism was. The story here is that the victim said something racist to the guy on the bike who had walked away and his criminal friend took offence and punched him. It is pretty common here for some guy to take offence at something and start lashing out, but unfortunately in this case it ended in death.
Last year I watched some university students walking down our main road after a night out so probably drunk. Out of the blue, the guy in front turns round and punches the guy behind him and knocks him out. I've also been driving in snow when some kids (about 11 yrs old) start pelting our cars with snowballs at a red light. The guy two cars in front jumps out of his car and chases them down, grabs one of the kids and starts kicking the crap out of him before some passers by stop him. Then we had the "happy slapping" phenomenon that swept the nation a couple of years ago where teens would target a random person and film themselves punching them and running away or beating them up and post it on social media. Until the consequences of assault are higher, this kind of thing will continue to happen.

honestly, if thats why he did it then the punishment should be even lighter. i don't think i want to see a black guy get sent to prison for life because he retaliated after someone called him a n***er. if anything he's a f*****g folk hero.

Whether it was provoked or not, he should do time for manslaughter. He killed somebody. That family will never get their son back.

Also, something to consider- even if he said that racial slur, isn't it possible that he could have also had Tourette's, making it not even intentional? I don't feel comfortable with a kid who's brazen enough to kill someone who was obviously deficient.

what kind of message are we sending if we imprison a black guy for life after retaliating against racial discrimination? i mean i honestly don't give a f**k if the kid had turrets, i still don't think this man should get life.

id argue that the message is that black people aren't going to be sent to jail for fighting discrimination. i think that the message is more one of not wanting to oppress some parts of the population then anything. i think he probably deserves to go to jail but i think that it is more important that we give people the message that doing this kind of thing isn't okay. i think thats what they were thinking. sending a black guy to jail for life for why on some level was standing up for his rights isn't something i want to see happen. i don't think that his unusually light sentence actually has anything to do with the victim and has everything to do with the events leading up to it. i think the guy could have been running through the street but naked and the same verdict would have been reached.

there were witnesses i think that if someone could figure out what they said then we would have a pretty clear picture wouldn't we? the point is that this is less about him and the victim and more about media messages. sending a black guy to jail under these circumstances would send a less then favorable message to the general populace.

you have to understand that autism isn't nearly as big a social issue on most peoples radar as race is nor have the injustices ever been nearly as bad. no one crosses the street when they see you.