Somehow, somewhere, someone will answer for this…
Southern law enforcement has always been quick to punish black victims… it helps keep them in their place as a race.
Watching crackers gloat over their own slow destruction has become something of a sport since Trump snuck in.
They really think they are winning something.
This is what it looks like when racial terrorists go before Justice and present their case.
Not the white so-called supremacist. The BLM activist who singlehandedly marshaled the effort to identify the real lawbreakers and do the FBI’s job for it.
Seems rather clear that all those involved in the legal process of issusing this warrant are members of white supremacy groups. There continues to be a pattern of blatant racial injustice. Blacks simply cannot rely on America’s judicial system when it comes to equal protection under the law. Yet, a peaceful protest about that very inequality has been spun into a flag protest. All of the hypocrisy and yet the tiki torch carrying, confederate flag waving & hate spewing American continue to portrayed as patriots. My prayers go out to Harris, who now is prosecuted by the very system that allows these terrorists to reign down hate on him
This reminds me of the young rape victim who after giving birth to her rapist’s child now faces a lifetime of sharing custody of that child with him.
Perfect example of why the NFL players are kneeling.
Jebus that white guy is an ugly and, truthfully, scary looking fuck!
We thought racism was solved in the 60s, but it’s not, and we have failed to attack it aggressively enough since then.
It’s time to round these guys up, take away their guns, and put our secret FEMA camps to good use.
Is this is the police protection which Trump insists that blacks want and need?
to anyone but the guy looking in the mirror…
I think the answer to your question is in the title. Just read the words carefully.
At least there remains an option…relinquish full custody to rapist and move on. Like amputating a gangrenous limb. Whereas, Harris has no choice…he remains powerless
Let’s step back for a moment. Do we think that DeAndre Harris should be able to go to court and swear out a warrant for assault against those who attacked him? Or would we want authority for criminal charges to rest solely with the police? Virginia’s statute is not that much different from the law in most states, which allows citizens to initiate criminal complaints.
Now, if the charges are found to be bogus, as I strongly suspect they will, then the guy who brought them should be charged for misusing the process. And then drawn and quartered.
This is very different from the citizen’s request for arrest.
This guy actually bypassed the normal legal procedures and was able to get a state magistrate to issue the warrant. It’s normally up to the police to request that a judge issue a warrant for arrest. Normally, one would go to the police, file a report, and the police would then go before a judge if they felt arrest was necessary.
It’s misuse of an arcane old law still on the books in the hopes that they can smear and imprison the person that they almost beat to death.
Well done, Ms. Kirkland. Keep up the digging and reporting.
The Crews cranial injury more than likely was received when he was dropped on his head as an infant.
Tell me again how we are different from Pakistan, Iran or Saudi Arabia?
@allegrakirkland
That is a fine piece of reporting, I’ve been waiting for a fuller explanation of how these charges could be filed. In particular this bit was interesting:
[Law Professor] Bowers said this manner of legal recourse reminded him of the pre-Revolutionary War justice system, much of which was carried out by private individuals. He said the statute makes it easy for a person to use “the authority of the state to settle scores or promote private biases,” as exemplified in the case against Harris.
This is what I keep coming to TPM for, reporters who can dig to the bottom of an obvious injustice and find a root cause, buried under ancient and obscure legal theories, and make it pertinent to modern issues.
Thanks, Allegra! This is a great job of reporting here.
I hope this case can somehow be thrown out. This is just pure evil.
You could reign above haters;
You could rain down hate [technically, the hate would rain down, but let’s not get technical); or
You could rein in hatred. Or horses.