Thread by @socialistdogmom

heeeeey america, guess who goes home tomorrow after 2 years in jail? the affluenza kid. remember him? he killed 4 people and seriously injured 9 others! he was initially given probation because he'd been raised too privileged to understand consequences!

he only ended up doing time when video surfaced of him playing beer pong, violating the "alcohol free" requirement of his probation. instead of going right to jail though, he and his mother FLED TO MEXICO but were eventually found and arrested.
cool system we've got going.

18 months. that's 2 months for each person INJURED, not even factoring in the four he murdered. for reference, i recently saw a district court judge give someone 2 months for each count of trespassing.
or maybe it's 4 months per murder, then about a week per person injured? fair.

meanwhile, if you're not a rich white guy...
washingtonpost.com/news/morning-m…

his mother, charged w/ money laundering & hindering the apprehension of a felon for taking him to mexico to avoid arrest in 2016, still hasn't actually been tried! she's been free on probation this entire time... until the other day. when she was arrested for failing a drug test.

i didn’t even realize this when i posted this, but these events took place in the same county.
the same locality doled out these disparate sentences.