What, not Manhattan, Brooklyn and Bronx DAs penning an op-ed about how cruel parole and probation are, when they fought so hard to keep people on RIkers Island during the height of the pandemic who were their for mere technical violations of both?
Not these same DAs citing the names of the first two people who died of COVID on Rikers Island, Raymond Rivera and Michael Tyson, who were there because of non-criminal technical violations of parole, like they didn't put them there in the first place?
People who bump up minor offenses like shoplifting of soap to felonies so people can face years in prison claiming they have done all they can to end mass incarceration?
Give me a break.
Don't believe the hype.
It's like when @BrooklynDA issued press releases to much fanfare saying he wouldn't prosecute marijuana offenses, but then continued to at an even greater rate.
Look at what they do, not what they say. The emperor has no clothes.
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The Pasco Sheriff’s Office keeps a secret list of kids it thinks could “fall into a life of crime” based on factors like whether they’ve been abused or gotten a D or an F in school, according to the agency's internal intelligence manual. projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/…
420 kids are on the list. The Sheriff’s Office doesn’t tell the kids or their parents about the designation and claims the list is used to help deputies assigned to schools to offer “mentorship” and “resources” to students.
Internal documents, however, show that, far from mentoring, in fact deputies are encouraged to work their relationships with the students on the list to find “the seeds of criminal activity” and to collect information that can help with investigations.
People defending Lindsey Graham, should read up on what happened to Olivia Pearson.
In 2018, Georgia prosecutors tried Ms. Pearson for felony voter fraud for showing a young first-time Black voter how to use a voting machine. She was acquitted.
This year, she was arrested for trespass when she arrived at a polling location with a former student, who is illiterate. Ms. Pearson, who is a Georgia city official, had completed the required forms to assist her former student with the voting process. slate.com/news-and-polit…
An old foe, Misty Martin, the elections supervisor for Coffee County, refused her entry to the polling location and called 911. Ms. Pearson left, but returned later to find three police cars blocking her entry to the polls. One cop presented her with a criminal trespass warning.
The decision to dismiss the 3rd degree murder charge against Derek Chauvin (while upholding the 2nd degree charge) was legally correct.
It remains disappointing that he is not being prosecuted for 1st degree murder, a charge that is arguably sustainable. nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/…
Under Minnesota law, third degree murder applies where a person unintentionally, but with depraved indifference, "causes the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others."
Here the judge ruled that Chauvin didn't act in a way that was dangerous to others - only to George Floyd.
Upset about homeless people being housed at the Lucerne Hotel, Upper West Side resident Jared Longhitano posted to a Facebook group, there should be "round the clock militias shooting these assholes" & suggested “kicking them in front of a bus if possible.”gothamist.com/news/angry-upp…
Jared's posts in the group aren't extraordinary, but he's a well known creep.
He was a benefactor for the American Ballet Theatre and dated one of the student dancers. He videotaped them having sex and then sent it to principal dancers at the company. nypost.com/2020/01/21/law…
A text he sent that was disclosed as part of that suit: “We should get like half a kilo and pour it over the ABT [American Ballet Theatre] girls and violate them,” adding, “I bet we could tie some of them up and abuse them like farm animals.”