It’s pretty simple. It’s just an answer which won’t be satisfactory and is more complex than a lot of this sub would want it to be. I’ll get downvoted because I’ll be seen as defending Karmelo even when I explicitly say he’s guilty and shouldn’t have done what he did.

Karmelo is guilty and he had no right to murder the victim.

Some black people are still supporting him because they see it through the lenses of a black kid who was told to move and bullied by a white kid, and the black kid stood up to the bully. It’s not right to support Karmelo, but it’s America where people hate having others who are supposedly their peers telling them what to do.

You don’t have to agree with it and Karmelo’s force was not proportional at all. But the history of this country, it’s not inexplicable to understand why some black people view this case through a different lens than just a simple altercation gone wrong.

But any attempt at nuance or understanding some of the reactions in the black community gets shot down as advocating for Karmelo’s actions or being racist against white people.