“I thought any sensible judge would dismiss the charge completely. It’s just asinine,” Moore said. “There were failures in the criminal justice system all the way around.”
...this is the justice system working as it should. To prevent First World countries looking (and smelling) like Third World ones.
The child’s mother has said her son urinated behind her vehicle while she was visiting a lawyer’s office in Senatobia, Mississippi, on 10 August. Police officers in the town of about 8,100 residents, 40 miles (64km) south of Memphis, Tennessee, saw the child urinating and arrested him. Officers put him in a squad car and took him to the police station.
Public urination is an offence. Don't want to be arrested for it? Don't do it. Ten years old is surely old enough to learn this.
It was initially unclear whether prosecutors would take up the case. Moore said he had planned on going to trial, but shifted strategy after prosecutors threatened to upgrade the charges and the child’s family chose to accept the probation sentence because it would not appear on the boy’s criminal record. The 10-year-old is required to check in with a probation officer once per month.
In the States, they probably have those in schools too, as well as police officers. But what's an attorney to do in a case like this?
"Race Card?"
"That'll do nicely..."
Moore said he doesn’t believe a white child would have been arrested under similar circumstances.“I don’t think there is a male in America who has not discreetly urinated in public,” Moore said.
Does that make it right, then?
“Sentencing anyone, let alone a young child, to probation under these facts is sure to add to the trauma and denigration this child has suffered since their arrest,” Ndiaye said. “This is all the more proof that we need to severely limit police interactions with civilians, from petty retail theft to traffic stops and even so-called ‘quality of life’ offenses. For Black people in America, it is a matter of life and death.”
Oh, please! Could you lay on the hyperbole any thicker? How exactly are the police supposed to do their job without interacting with civilians?
This is another example of how justice is in the US. They threaten to upgrade charges or restrict charges if you plead guilty. There must be 1000s of people in jail in the US because they took a lesser charge and plead guilty rather than roll the dice and go to court. Justice is what you can afford.
ReplyDeleteWatch the film snitch, with The Rock, which is based on at least one real event to see how insane the justice system is in the US.
Yet the Biden's seems to be doing OK.
Does this mean that the police are no longer civilians?
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point, isn't it?
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