Had this been a little white child and Black teens, you’d see them tried as adults.  

That statement makes me so angry. What about the trauma that this boy will experience for the rest of his life? I can’t imagine having been his age and some malicious teenagers decided to fucking hang me from a tree and no one gave enough shits to make sure that the people who harmed me had to pay the consequences.…

“Mistakes they make as a young child should not have to follow them for the rest of their life,” Chase said.*

You don’t “accidentally” push an 8-year-old off a table with a rope around his neck.