Biff_Poindexter
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The Racist And Illegal Jailing Of Children In Tennessee, Some As Young As 6-Years-Old
Officials placed the juveniles in jail for not breaking up fights at school. Most of the kids were Black and as young as 6.
seattlemedium.com
"A Rutherford County judge illegally jailed children even when there was no crime committed. According to a report from WPLN and Propublica, Judge Donna Scott Davenport instituted a policy that all children charged with crimes be processed at the detention center. Commissioners – one of whom worked in a post office, and none of whom have law degrees or experience – created “laws” in Rutherford County, Tenn., which resulted in the illegal arrest and jailing of juveniles for decades.
Officials placed the juveniles in jail for not breaking up fights at school. Most of the kids were Black and as young as 6. In September, the county agreed to pay $11 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of the juveniles. After years of investigation, the authors discovered that the judge had been directing police on what she called “our process” for arresting children. She appointed the jailer, who employed a “filter system” to determine which children to hold.”
How is it illegal?? If a judge does it, police sign off on it -- it is by definition legal....Seems like a pretty good idea by the judge in fact.... You don't need laws on the books for everything, sometimes its a good thing for law enforcement to improvise..and these are just kids, they don't really have the same rights as adults anyway.......Like those kids who were watching 2 other kids have a fight.....what kind of kids would just stand there and watch that?? Of course they should have been locked up; they're criminally responsible for what happened.
But instead of supporting her, lawmakers in the state called for a federal investigation....the county folded and paid out millions to the parents of these thugs...one of those lawmakers said this about it:
There is no rational justification for any of this in our society. Both the state and county have obviously failed children and families, predominantly Black individuals, in this and countless other ways. This has notably been true throughout American history in our legal and penal system, and it’s way past time to reevaluate the structural framework which allows such instances of inequity and injustice.
That is nothing more than literal Marxist Communist CRT talking points....trying to claim these kids were treated unfairly or that it is something systemic is non-sense..
48% of the kids who came thru that Judge's court were locked up in juvenile detention as opposed to 5% for the rest of the state -- have they once thought about the fact that maybe the kids in her court are just more deserving of being locked up than the rest of the kids in the state?
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