Monday, April 9, 2012

Dharun Ravi New York Times

Dharun Ravi was eventually convicted of two crimes according to the New York Times. Those two crimes were bias intimidation of a hate crime and evidence tampering. I agree with these charges because although it would be unethical to say that he caused the death of Tyler Clementi, I would also not count out the chance of Ravi playing a key role in Tyler Clementi's suicidal thoughts. A new figure played a significant role in this article and that was Tyler Clementi's friend who was the other an on the tape, named M.B. Statements in this article argue that the hidden camera was to protect if this man was going to steal anything of Ravi's, because Ravi was asked by Tyler Clementi to leave the dorm and not return until around midnight. This suggests that maybe Ravi was only trying to protect himself and his things, but moving on to the evidence tampering, there is nothing to defend Ravi for. Ravi clearly changed things he said on twitter that were things that would obviously upset someone so close to him, like his roommate Tyler. The end of this article enforces that Ravi might have to be deported back to his home country of India, but I don't think that justifies anything, and he should have to stay in America and live with what he did everyday. In the long run I think it will only make him a better person after going through all of this.

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