http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/courts/victim-s-family-says-tulsa-murder-suspect-had-history-of/article_f381a610-44d4-5f95-8570-7c92f88e6511.html?mode=image&photo=0
The true face of evil. His victim was the promise of our future as a nation… but this dirtbag got bond on an assault charge and went on to worse.
If he were not white, would the judge have allowed bond?
What would the cops had done if the family were white Evangelical Christians and the neighbor a Muslim?
A typical Trump supporter.
FYI many Lebanese are Christian, maybe so in this case.
He was Christian. That was corrected in the article.
I must admit I’m more than a little surprised to see this comment from someone I thought to be very anti-establishment, based on your commenting history.
I’m would have thought you understood that many of the laws in this country are written to provide a legitimate excuse for LEO to detain and investigate otherwise innocent citizens.
Broken taillight leading to investigation, arrest, and incarceration for something much worse? And the accused almost certainly a member of one minority or another?
Working as designed.
I’ll be curious to see if this hate filled white man pays a penalty anywhere near that of Weldon Angelos…
Mr, Angelos offense was non-violent, you beating your wife is in a different category all together. The criminal justice system itself recognizes the difference when deciding where you will be incarcerated.
Everybody at some point in their life breaks some law. If we all got the maximum sentence for the first offense of whatever law that happened to be, we would all be in jail.
This is absolutely horrendous.
I know that we cannot afford to post round-the-clock guards in case of clear threats like in this case. I always feel so helpless on behalf of those victimized in such situations. I have no answers, but wish I did.
The judge who gave him that light sentence should also pay for his crimes! One can bet the farm that it was a white, male, Christian and tone-deaf judge who ignored a Muslim family’s repeated pleas for justice.
Any takers?
Selling an illegal drug is not akin to having a broken taillight. And yes, disparate and/or disproportionate sentences piss me off. However, lone individuals seldom have the power to bend the laws to their will or rectify systemic inequities. If a citizen knows any type of behavior may result in causing them harm it is incumbent upon them to avoid that behavior. Arguing about the degree of harm or the unfairness of the harm is separate from acknowledging you’re commiting an act that may place you at risk. Why would you commit a crime where jail was a consequence of getting caught, whether it was 1 year or 50 behind bars?
People in the street have had a saying for generations, “If you can’t do the time don’t do the crime.” They know penalties are disparate while committing the crime. If they know that going in pleading rough justice afterward is weak tea.
This is a startlingly stupid response, comparing a non-violent sale of a small amount of marijuana to a potentially-deadly act of violence, while ignoring the systemic disparities in enforcement of laws and sentencing. What is wrong with you?
A hate crime is more than an individual murder: it is an intended threat against a particular group.
If you kill your wife you may well hate her but wives generally do not become more fearful. When the KKK murdered a black person the intent and the effect was to put local blacks and blacks generally in fear.
Are you worried that the Demon Weed will hit the streets and cause Negroes and Mexicans to violate our chaste and wholesome white daughters at hot jazz clubs? For fuck’s sake.
Bill LaFortune, the judge/accomplice, has an office number: (918) 596-8606.
Would you knowingly commit an illegal act fully apprised of the unfortunate fact the penalty might be woefully disporportionate to what you’ve done?
“Brendan, you can sell this bag of dope for me. If you get caught it might get you a fine, or it might get you 25 years in jail. Do you still want to sell it for me?”
“Sure Fred, I’ll run that risk. I know a cursory reading of the news, along with anecdotal tales from my friends, indicate you’re right. I might get off easy, or they might go nuts and lock me up and throw away the key, but I’ll still do it.”
You’d have that conversation with someone? And nevertheless still do the crime?
Not generally for white folks…
OMG, I could give a shit about weed. I hope they legalize it. The discussion is people feeling aggrieved for receiving disproportionate sentences. I knew a lawyer once that counseled me staying out of trouble was real easy. Obey the laws. If you wanted to buck the system by breaking a law you’ve opened Pandora’s Box. It was why he had a job. Trying to rescue idjits that broke the law.
I assure you Stanley Vernon Majors had no complaints whatsoever about the disparate treatment he received. After doing assorted crimes.
No one would ever have that conversation, because no one talks like that outside of your sacred straight-themed slash fic, nor do “people in the streets” use cutesy, decades-old lyrics from the theme song from Baretta, you textbook example of noxious privilege.
People sell marijuana because it is harmless and supplements income and no one should care about it.
Vicious, if necessary.
‘Tulsa police say it is too early to determine whether the incident was a hate crime…’ WTF does it TAKE???