Alternate take: fuck 'em. The made their choices, and choices have consequences.
I don't care if the gang rape was your idea, or if you just went along because you're a sucker for joining the crowd. You all face the same fucking charges, you fucking rapist shitbags. Same for these fuckers. I don't care how you ended up being a gullible sucker attacking my government -- you did it.
Enough kid gloves, enough giving angry white people the benefit of the doubt that they never, ever, EVER have given or would give if we were talking about a black guy or a brown guy. No more. Enough.
You know what will learn some of these motherfuckers? A word called CONSEQUENCES. White people skated for decades of open lynching, with zero consequences. White people skated for decades of violent opposition to civil rights protesters (both regular citizens and white people in positions of power, like Bull Connor), with zero consequences. They CONTINUE to do this shit because they believe -- and history tells them they're right to believe -- that there will be no consequences of their actions. Well, enough. Time for consequences. Brutal, draconian, consistent consequences. Across the board. For hundreds, even thousands of them. However many it takes. When your favorite A/C repair guy goes away for 5 years of federal time, maybe it will get through your thick, entitled skull that the Rule of Law fucking applies to everyone. And if that doesn't do the job, keep up with your shit, and we'll throw another thousand of you in federal prison.
Enough. Failure to impose consequences is nothing but appeasement and enabling. Want the next generation of morons like this guy not to fall for the grift? Then scare the everloving fuck out of them by sending the prior generation to prison for years for their bullshit actions.