Maybe, perhaps, the four black kids aren't racist scumbags and cared more about telling the truth.
Karmelo frankly deserves the death penalty. He stabbed an unarmed student athlete in the heart, while suspended from his own school, at a track meet he wasn't supposed to be at and under another team's tent, next to all their personal belongings.
He didn't reveal the knife until the moment he used it to stab Austin in the heart. All he had to do was reveal the knife and no lives would be irreparably destroyed, including Karmelo's.
The worst part is that if the races were reversed and a white kid who was suspended from his school went to a track meet he wasn't supposed to be at and under a rival teams tent refused to leave and then murdered a black athlete, you would be calling for his head.
Karmelo's family still made over $700,000 from the donations. They profited from this.