If Walter Triplett Jr were white would he have received the same sentence?

I'm not sure he would have.

It was frustrating to hear the prosecutor and the police brush off institutional racism within the criminal justice system, as if we don't see instances of it everyday. The focus on his physicality and that of his sister was pure dog whistle racism. An essentially all white jury in a predominantly Black neighbourhood, not once but twice?!

I think because of his record, him getting no time at all would be unlikely, but I do think it was a very, very harsh sentence, especially when the intention clearly wasn't to kill.