Are you surprised?
You shouldn’t be, the justice system has proven it is around to protect white people more than anything else.
A Dietrich high school football player originally charged with sexually assaulting a black, mentally disabled teammate after an October 2015 football practice pleaded guilty to a lesser felony Friday
John R.K Howard, 19, of Keller, Tex., pleaded guilty Friday in a Twin Falls courtroom to a felony count of injury to a child. He will be sentenced to two to three years of probation, which he’ll likely be able to complete in Texas, and prosecutors will recommend he be ordered to serve 300 hours of community service.
But Howard will avoid prison or jail time and could ultimately have his conviction dismissed if he successfully completes probation without violations or committing new crimes.
Here is what Howard did to his teammate.
Despite the court proceedings, a $10 million civil lawsuit filed by the victim is still making its way through U.S. District Court. It claims the locker room attack was the culmination of months of “severe and pervasive harassment, racial discrimination, mental and physical assault and battery.” It claims the district, school administrators and football coaches were aware of or should have been aware of the abuse.
The civil suit does not name Howard as a defendant but did single him out “as a large and aggressive male who had been sent to live with his relatives in Idaho due to his inability to keep out of trouble in Texas.” The civil suit claims Howard “brought with him from Texas a culture of racial hatred toward” the victim, and that his bullying was ignored by administrators and coaches “at least in part due to his athletic ability and community connections.”
The civil suit accuses Howard of humping and taunting the victim during football practices, forcing him to learn a Ku Klux Klan song while displaying a Confederate flag, knocking him unconscious during football camp as coaches and players cheered in a circle, and calling him racially charged names like “Kool-Aid, chicken-eater, watermelon and (N-word).”
“There was stuff going on in the locker room, there wasn’t really any supervision in there at the time,” Hemmer said of the hanger attack. “The other party in this case that has pled guilty in juvenile court took a coat hanger and either inserted or swung or in some way caused it to become lodged in the victim’s buttocks … It’s the state’s contention that at some point, Mr. Howard purposely kicked that hanger.”
The prosecutors in this case didn’t believe race played a factor in the assault, because I guess everyone has to learn KKK songs at that school?
Just sickening and terrible this awful human being won’t get any jail time.