Thread: The Mississippi Court of Appeals just upheld a sentence of death in prison without the possibility of parole for Allen Russell, a Black man who possessed 44 grams of marijuana. n(1)
Just reflect on one thing for a moment: what kind of cruel and senseless system uses metal chains and state violence to take a person from his family to die in a cage because he held in his hand a plant on a list of plants the government says you can't hold? (2)
This case does not involve "bad apples." The cop who arrested him, the prosecutor who charged him, the trial judge who sentenced him, and the appeals judges who said his sentence was cool **were all doing exactly what they are trained to do.** (3) apnews.com/article/missis…
All of this pain is caused by elites in our society who know that there is absolutely no social benefit to drug criminalization other than to control and brutalize poor people, people of color, and immigrants. It is a crime against humanity. (end)
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