What?

I went online to the Enquirer's site and I saw this photo. If you can't make it out, it is a picture of a man pointing a shotgun at a bank teller.

Right below that, I see this headline

Deters defends prosecution

For those who don't know, Joe Deters is the Hamilton County Prosecutor. His job is to prosecute people who commit crime. In the photo above, doesn't it look like this a crime worth prosecuting? Why should Deters defend anything related to the prosecution of this crime?

Well, the criminal happens to be a nice, young, black, male who also happens to be a "good" college student.

So I guess the writer believes that if you are a black student trying hard to pay for tuition, you need to get a pass on something like an ARMED BANK ROBBERY.

Excerpt from the article

Responding to criticism that his office unfairly treated two young black men who face 20 years in prison for armed robbery, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said skin color played no role in his office’s conduct.

Are you kidding me? This is from The Onion. Right?

At least Deters responded appropriately.

“I think it’s very unfair to say the system is rigged against a certain demographic,” Deters said today. “The system is rigged against people who take guns into banks.”

The true racists here are the writer and editor who seem to believe that a "Prosecutor" needs to justify prosecuting a person who put a shotgun in the chest of a bank teller because he's a black college student. The photo is not the best but you can make out the fear on the teller. To think this guy shouldn't be prosecuted is flat out racist and is the epitome of the Pygmalion Effect.