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December 2, 2014
PAT ROBERTSON HAS DECLARED RACISM IS DEAD IN AMERICA!!!!!....DAMN WHO KNEW????!!!!
November 29, 2014 |
Its been a trying week for social justice activists after a grand jury declined to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown. An unfortunate and clear side-effect has been inflamed racial tensions. But that's not so obvious to Pat Robertson, who told his 700 Club audience that racism is actually dead.
Speaking to the viewers of his Christian Broadcasting Network show, the 84-year-old media mogul and Southern Baptist minister declared that black Americans have it pretty good these days.
you tell them Pat. roflmao. I should've had a V8
ATTENTION ...ATTENTION!!!!!! BREAKING NEWS...OMFG!!!!
http://www.alternet.org/belief/pat-robertson-declares-racism-be-deadPAT ROBERTSON HAS DECLARED RACISM IS DEAD IN AMERICA!!!!!....DAMN WHO KNEW????!!!!
November 29, 2014 |
Its been a trying week for social justice activists after a grand jury declined to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown. An unfortunate and clear side-effect has been inflamed racial tensions. But that's not so obvious to Pat Robertson, who told his 700 Club audience that racism is actually dead.
Speaking to the viewers of his Christian Broadcasting Network show, the 84-year-old media mogul and Southern Baptist minister declared that black Americans have it pretty good these days.
you tell them Pat. roflmao. I should've had a V8
December 2, 2014
By JAKE PEARSON
Dec. 1, 2014 10:58 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) The New York City mayor wants to spend $130 million over four years to overhaul how the nation's most populous city deals with mentally ill and drug-addicted suspects, diverting many to treatment instead of the city's troubled Rikers Island jail complex.
Mayor Bill de Blasio's plans, to be announced Tuesday, are based on the recommendations of a task force he appointed following a series of reports by The Associated Press detailing problems at Rikers, including the deaths of two inmates suffering from serious mental illness.
The reforms are aimed largely at inmates with mental-health or substance-abuse problems who repeatedly end up in jail on minor offenses because there is nowhere else for them to go.
The changes, which do not require city council approval, include offering stepped-up training for police to identify such suspects, using drop-off treatment centers for low-level offenders and allowing more leeway for judges to order supervised release and treatment instead of jail. They draw on reforms already tried in Seattle, Washington D.C., and Louisville, Kentucky.
Mayor: $130M to revamp NYC jails for mentally ill
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9d84dfac589d40dfbf82888d246c2c61/mayor-130m-revamp-nyc-jails-mentally-illBy JAKE PEARSON
Dec. 1, 2014 10:58 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) The New York City mayor wants to spend $130 million over four years to overhaul how the nation's most populous city deals with mentally ill and drug-addicted suspects, diverting many to treatment instead of the city's troubled Rikers Island jail complex.
Mayor Bill de Blasio's plans, to be announced Tuesday, are based on the recommendations of a task force he appointed following a series of reports by The Associated Press detailing problems at Rikers, including the deaths of two inmates suffering from serious mental illness.
The reforms are aimed largely at inmates with mental-health or substance-abuse problems who repeatedly end up in jail on minor offenses because there is nowhere else for them to go.
The changes, which do not require city council approval, include offering stepped-up training for police to identify such suspects, using drop-off treatment centers for low-level offenders and allowing more leeway for judges to order supervised release and treatment instead of jail. They draw on reforms already tried in Seattle, Washington D.C., and Louisville, Kentucky.
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