The Texas School Shooting Disproves the “Racist Justice System”
Timothy Simpkins was granted leniency because he’s not white
On October 6th, 2021, 18-year-old Timothy Simpkins brought an illegal .45 to Timberview High School in Arlington, TX. He shot 3 students, and caused a pregnant teacher to fall and injure herself. He was given a miniscule $75,000 bail. A GoFundMe was started in his name by his family because “he is traumatized.” GoFundMe (to their immense credit) took the campaign down.
In less than 24 hours, Simpkins was released.
A school shooter is now free. Let that sink in.
If he was white, the coverage would be wall-to-wall, and Twitter would be astroturfing multiple trends calling for some overruling of Texas' right to arm the good guys.
Kyle Rittenhouse
On August 25, 2020, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse shot three attackers with a legally owned firearm. The attacking individuals, who can be seen on video chasing and physically assaulting Rittenhouse, were all convicted criminals. One was about to shoot him dead with an illegal gun.
First was convicted serial child rapist Joseph Rosenbaum (a white man, who can be heard on video shouting “shoot me n___a”). Until his death, he was on Wisconsin’s sex offender registry for the molestation and anal rape of multiple children under 12.
Next is convicted felon Gaige Grosskreutz, who once illegally used a firearm while intoxicated, and who was charged with “lurking” behind a police station and taking pictures of officers' personal cars. He was convicted of felony burglary, theft of moveable property, criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct. He was illegally carrying a gun, and was brandishing it while chasing after Rittenhouse, intending to use the weapon to commit a murder. Later, he said he wished he could have killed Rittenhouse, and regretted not being able to end a life that day.
Finally, there was serial domestic abuser Anthony Huber. He was was assaulting Rittenhouse with a skateboard while his comrades moved in for the kill.
Their intent was to end a life. Rittenhouse defended himself legally.
Rittenhouse’s bail was set to $2,000,000 for the crime of defending himself from 3 violent felons ganging up on him with a deadly weapon. No lawyer will agree to represent Rittenhouse due to the possibility of career-ending media backlash. This is likely because of Rittenhouse’s undeserved reputation as racist or prejudicial due to his skin color and beliefs.
Black Privilege
Here we have two young men of similar age.
One with an illegal firearm, shot 3 students in cold blood in a school. He was treated like a small-time petty crook and was back outside the following day. He was barely punished because he was not white and, well, the kid seems to have it tough. If he was white, his life would be ruined.
The other, who had the personal blessing of Wisconsin police due to the high number of violent criminal agitators present in Kenosha that day, only shot in self defense when his life was directly threatened when he was outnumbered by violent criminal felons who were ready, willing, and able to murder him. If he hadn’t shot, he would be dead. He was given high bail and vilified as a beastly racist murderer all over every screen. His life is ruined because he defended himself, legally, while white.
There is no systemic racism that favors whites in the United States criminal justice system. If anything, the facts of these cases show the current reality to be the exact opposite.
The criminal justice system, however it may once have been, is now biased against white Americans, most especially if they’re seen as right-wing or right-leaning, and it is used to punish them for political reasons on behalf of people on the left who desire vengeance to be enacted on their political opposites when those filthy racists just won’t be silent and die quietly.