For too many parents, their kids can do no wrong. In any situation, their kid is right and the others are lying, or at best misinformed. Teachers, too. And principals. And cops.
Watched a group of kids smash a car with bricks that they then took to the door of the house, yelling that the young American Latino girl should "go home to Mexico where you belong." Cops showed up, and you know, every kid on the street had a mother swearing that their little snowflake was inside with them at the time. (The car, it turned out, belonged to a friend of the family who'd gone shopping with the mother. The family did the right thing--a couple of months later they fled the ignorant racists in the neighborhood.) Same with the mother of the tween who insisted on fondling my son's groin when my kid was 5. Caught him in the act after my son and his friend both said what was happening, and his mother swore his son would never do such a thing and everybody who saw it was lying.
Convicted axe murderer? Nah, just misunderstood and they overlooked important evidence. Parents have a hard time being objective.
When race is involved, it's worse. Group solidarity and all that primate-behavior crap.
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