An 18 year old girl was killed by a texting drunk driver. He was just acquitted. He is rich.

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53. Some pigs are more equal than others.

It's not a suspected pattern. It is a pattern. It is the way it works in the USA and has for many years but not at the obscene level it is reaching over the last decade or so. I was following a local case here a couple years back where a HS athlete with wealth and family connections hit, killed and ran an old man because he was late for practice. He wound up with community service.
Another one happened involving a rich girl texting, speeding and oops, permanently disabling a small child in the crosswalk with her expensive car. Community service.
One other case I recall sticking out to me was the one about a hedge fund guy in Colorado hit & running a surgeon who was out riding his bike. I think he got off pretty light as well.

It's sad you hear so many and you start to lose track. For everyone of those stories there are stories of poor people being beaten, tazed & humiliated to the core before serving harsh sentences and then carrying a target for life after stealing a hot dog when they are starving or for being found in possession of a small amount of weed after being stopped for jaywalking.
We've always had two levels of justice in this country. Just never to the extent that modern techniques & technology has allowed it to progress. It's almost criminal in itself. Our combined indifference to the ever mounting degradation of the weakest among us.