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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)RVN VET71
(2,697 posts)ancianita
(36,132 posts)thbobby
(1,474 posts)Fuck no. I am horrified by what our country has always been (at least in my lifetime). Rage doesn't begin to describe what should be felt by this.
Oerdin
(1,037 posts)That is a really bad example as you don't list the differences between the cases. I am 100% certain that if we read the individual cases and compare the differences in law between different states we will find the reasons without resorting to your racist antics.
Are you being sarcastic? Really, theft of shoes v rape ... of a 5 yr old? Already stated above that it was the same judge in both cases. And you accuse the poster of racist antics. Wow. Is this a case of trolling?
sl8
(13,864 posts)Burgess was sentenced by Judge Ron Northup, in Stockton, CA.
Davis was sentenced by Judge Bobby Peters, in Columbus, GA.
treestar
(82,383 posts)the possible penalties. Even so, it sounds disproportionate in the extreme, but every one of these comparisons will suffer from the failure to note the different parts of the country, laws, judges, etc. The age difference could be a factor - is the 79 year old ill at this point. The 15 year old needs to learn whereas the old man won't.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This is seriously fucked up!
Tarc
(10,476 posts)The 15 yr old arranged to meet the shoe seller, kid said "these shoes is took", friend pulls a gun.
Sorry, but that's being an accomplice to an armed robbery. Zero sympathy here whatsoever.
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article212275254.html
gollygee
(22,336 posts)He committed this crime at 15 and doesn't deserve to go to adult prison. And, conversely, the child-rapist does. It's the comparison of the crimes, not a statement that the 15-year-old doesn't deserve to go to a juvenile detention facility. Adult prison for a first offense? Where nobody got killed? And the child-rapist only got house arrest?
Tarc
(10,476 posts)Not lessen it on the black teen. Sorry, but armed robbery is a bit of a bright line for me.
If we're supportive of the Parkland students as they go after the gun lobby, we really can't turn around an ignore gun crimes when they happen.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)so I'm not ignoring anything. But 15-year-olds used to only get charged as adults when they had killed someone, and then not always.
These shoes is took?
Hope he gets some English lessons in prison.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)without resorting to ridiculing African-American Vernacular. C'mon now...
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)I know no one who talks like that...black or white, unless they have poor English skills.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)What chance do you think a person who speaks like that has of getting a meaningful job? We need to be pressuring kids to learn to speak properly, not hand waving speech behavior that will insure economic hardship. A person can yell systemic racism all they want, the ability to speak and write clearly is simple vital in business and all aspects of a working society.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)argument, when it appears he has a problem forming a clear sentence. Neither of us was there to witness what he said, so please don't pull the "you weren't there thing on me". What I read in the article was a kid using English in a way that will get him nowhere in life.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Way too extreme a punishment for the crime. I hope some kind lawyer out there will help that boy to get more lenient sentence.