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So let's get it straight. Red Sox pitcher Rich Hill & his wife were arrested - one of his charges being felony intimidation of a police officer, the DA decides to dismiss the charges "in the interests of justice," it's not a scandal and it gets no media. bostonglobe.com/2019/12/23/met…
Also, for some reason in this story, @BostonGlobe notes "In February, the couple donated $575,000 to support research on rare and undiagnosed genetic diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children."
@BostonGlobe Contrast this with @BostonGlobe's overwhelmingly negative coverage of @DARollins policy of declining to prosecute certain misdemeanor offenses. theappeal.org/boston-globe-a…
@BostonGlobe @DARollins Or with the media frenzy that resulted after the decision by @SAKimFoxx to dismiss the charges against Jussie Smollett. newyorker.com/news/our-colum…
@BostonGlobe @DARollins @SAKimFoxx It's almost as if people don't have a problem with charges being dismissed - even in serious felony cases - against certain people.

Especially when those decisions are made by a certain sort of prosecutor.
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Prosecutors knew Randy Volar was raping Black girls as young as 12. In fact, they charged him with child sexual assault. But he was released without bail.

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Rebecca Kavanagh
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A judge sentenced former NYPD cop Ritchard Blake to probation on Thursday.

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The same judge who sentenced Blake also sentenced the two former NYPD officers, Eddie Martins and Richard Hall, who raped an 18-year-old girl in their custody to probation.

In that case the DA had also sought a sentence of 1 to 3 years in prison.

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Rebecca Kavanagh
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When a White cop uses a photo of a Black teenager posing with a few dollars and making what the cop thinks is some sort of significant hand gesture as his profile picture on his fake Twitter account.
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