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Maybe you've seen arguments over Kamala Harris the "progressive prosecutor" or the clip of her laughing about her threat to jail parents of truant children.
Now you can hear from the parents whose lives were upended after Harris got tough on truancy. huffpost.com/entry/kamala-h…
Now you can hear from the parents whose lives were upended after Harris got tough on truancy. huffpost.com/entry/kamala-h…
Cheree Peoples was arrested for truancy in 2013. Orange Co police perp-walked her while the DA told the press that children like her daughter were *this close* to joining gangs.
In reality, Peoples' 11-year-old daughter was missing school because of a serious chronic illness.
In reality, Peoples' 11-year-old daughter was missing school because of a serious chronic illness.
Harris says she didn't want parents to go to jail under the law she championed — she just wanted schools to have the threat in their back pocket so that they could get kids back in school.
(And yes, her rhetoric got softer the closer she came to running for president.)
(And yes, her rhetoric got softer the closer she came to running for president.)
