🇨🇦 Racial discrimination factors into reducing sentence for double shooting in Porsche

Yousaf Bilal Sheikh brought a loaded gun into a car and shot two people in an attempted double murder. The jury rejected his self-defence claim. He was convicted, then out on bail, he carjacked someone at gunpoint and crashed into two cars fleeing the scene. A judge decided 13 months off his sentence was appropriate because he's Muslim, experienced racism growing up in Toronto, and didn't enjoy his time in pretrial custody. He made $65,000 a year in IT before his arrest and lived in an Oakville condo with his mother. Hardly the profile of systemic oppression.

This is the two-tier justice system in action. Your background now trumps your actions. Attempt to murder two people while armed and organized, then carjack another victim on bail, and walk away with a sentencing discount because you checked the right demographic boxes. Equal justice under law is dead. Identity is the new plea bargain.

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