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LookieNoNookie -> RE: The African American Community (7/18/2012 3:28:24 PM)
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ORIGINAL: mons
LooknoNookie
It is a shame that I had to find out the hard way about bias in the criminal system!
My son at the time this happen he was 14, a young friend of his had been breaking into
a apartment for some weeks!
This young boy decide that he would bring my son along with him on his next break-in!
He told my son come their are "comics"inside, my son did not go in at all! I asked him why
he did not go in with him, he said a voice told him not to go! Now I believe my dear mother came
to him and give him that message!
This young man had been in this apartment for sometime! When he was caught they arrested my son
as well as this young boy my son had a shoe lace and a checkbook, he told my other son who happens to be older!
My older son did the right things and turn it in along with my son to a police men!
Now this is when and where the story turns into a nightmare! They found this young boys finger prints all over the apartment!
They did not find not one of my son's!
Without talking to or with me they give my son 2 years probation, the young boy who happen to be white and mexican, he did not
have the features that would show his Mexican side, they give him 3 month probation!
Mind you he was there for more then 10 times going in and out at will! My son was outside and would not go in , also he was not near the building
as a look out!
I am lucky I know that this was not a fair thing to do! If my son were to do anything in those 2 years he would had went to jail!
I made a call that day to the DA office and plain speaking I told the woman I spoke to " Do you wish to be sue?" Her answer was no, the
young boy had set his house on fire, show violence towards his mother!
They looked into his home life and saw horror and some abuse she drink heavily, they did the right thing! He was given 2 years probation, my
son was given 3 months!
If mothers , parents in general look at what is doing on with their children and know what is the right balance of a given probation
we would not have so many injustices toward mexicans , black and Asian young boys and girls they would learn that it is true but sad
they do give higher sentences to the groups I have mention above but for the same crimes that white do they are given so much less time!
It is also true to point out that many crimes that are redone such as murder it is done by white, because they did not have the whole
weight of the justices system on them when they first did the crime they were given little or no time at all, please check the facts please!
I am one who see myself as a person not a skin color, I have never been into the race fight but when someone mention something that the facts
will speak for their selves read and learn, it will not lie! Before I come to write something I have had life experiences to at least try and prove my
side of the point!
I do not go to statistic I have as I wrote just now life moments, seen and been there!
thanks for listening
mons
Mons, you're absolutely right...shit happens and sometimes it's entirely unfair.
When I was 13 I was accused of raping a 13 year old girl.
When I arrived home, having spent the entire day with an adult (a well respected local school teacher...a woman my Dad was dating at the time...she'd taken me out shopping for clothes, who vouched for my whereabouts not only the entire day, but specifically the time that my ex girlfriend had accused me of coming to her door and attempted to rape her...and in fact, we'd (myself and the teacher) been at a restaurant during that entire specific time and had the credit card receipts {and the waitress's witness} to prove it), I was met by police....accusing me of attempted rape.
Her (my ex girlfriend's) charges and evidence were, scratches on her arm, actually bloody and when I showed the police my fingernails (which I'd been biting since I was a child...to the nub...to the point of being known for wearing bandaids on my fingers) I asked the cops (already convinced by the adults statement) "do you think I nubbed her to death with these?"
She'd done this to herself, pissed that I'd broken up with her. As horrifying as rape is for a woman, there isn't a woman on the planet that doesn't know a girl who's done this to a guy...somewhere....sometime.
I was that guy.
Now...I, as a 13 year old had a record which, in my State, lasted until I was 21.
Even though the police believed me without debate, the adult I was with (and the waitress where we had lunch) vouched for me and, on top of that....I insisted on taking a lie detector test.
All of this was in the files.
My record caused me to lose multiple jobs through age 21...it was all a lie, but a woman had made this case and by virtue...it was now a fact. Reverse the genders and the cops would have told me "be more careful" and would have driven off (if they'd have even shown up at all).
Even though a lie detector test was taken, 2 witnesses said I wasn't anywhere near this girl and...I didn't have the fingernails to have caused her bruises, and the police believed every word I uttered (they'd seen it before a thousand times)....my record was now a fact of life.
Maybe I should thank her...she forced me to start my own businesses....but I fucking hate that cunt and every breath she (still to this day) takes. If she fell into a flaming vat of volcanic debris and apologized with her last breath....I'd watch her melt and be glad. She ruined a good portion of my very young adult life and didn't even bat an eye.
So...your son got shit on by the game.
I get it.
Is there injustice in the world....you fucking bet.
Life sucks sometimes.
Buck up.
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