• eylligator2 [she/her,none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    the naked evil here is so blatant and unapologetic, if you watched a movie about this, you'd call it heavy-handed. and yet.

    edit:

    The following year, Rutherford County violated federal law 191 times by keeping kids locked up too long, according to a story later published by The Tennessean. By law, children held for such minor acts as truancy were to appear before a judge within 24 hours and be released no more than a day after that. The newspaper interviewed Davenport, who estimated half those violations occurred because a kid had cursed her or someone else. For cursing, she said, she typically sentenced kids to two to 10 days in jail. “Was I in violation?” she said. “Heck, yes. But am I going to allow a child to cuss anyone out? Heck, no.”

    This woman belongs under the jail. Aww teehee, traumatizing children because they were mean to me! I'm such an angel!

  • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    J.B.#2, the 12-year-old boy, spent two nights in the detention center, court records show. While there, he was placed in solitary confinement as punishment for standing at his cell’s window, a lawsuit would later allege.

    WALL. WALL FOR EVERY FUCKING PRISON GUARD

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      3 years ago

      What the fuck :agony-deep:

      Literally tortured for looking out a window

  • Quimby [any, any]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    The mods over at :reddit-logo: apparently removed this from r/news. go figure.

    • Abraxiel
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      3 years ago

      no fucking kidding? That's wild as shit, even for them.

    • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.propublica.org%2Farticle%2Fblack-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist

      :vote:

      /r/news This community has limits on how often the same link can be posted, and this link was posted within the past 10 days. Do not post analysis/opinion/political articles

      /r/Politics. This submission has been removed for the following reason:

      Off Topic (and Already Submitted)
      
        • KermitTheFraud [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          I’m pretty sure there’s a Supreme Court ruling that says Sheriffs are allowed to set priorities in enforcement at their discretion, so the enforcement of any given law is largely up the local Sheriff and what the voting populace will accept from them

          Edit: and of course with funding pressures that mostly vary by state, but those aren’t normally tied to stats on cases cleared

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Miles prayed out loud for the kids to be protected and for God to bring peace and understanding. Then he buckled the fourth graders into a patrol car and drove off.

      :liberalism:

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    :JB-shining-aggro: The sins of this cursed land can only be cleansed with blood

  • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    In Rutherford County, Davenport still runs juvenile court, making $176,000 a year.

    :agony-consuming:

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    How conservatives can claim to be champions of freedom while supporting shit like this without the cognitive dissonance breaking them, I'll never know.

      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        On the radio, Davenport says she has been “blessed” with an extensive history in law enforcement: “I was trained well in 17 years by different law enforcement agencies.” As a juvenile court judge, she says, she can spot “subtle signs” of gang activity, “wearing something to the right or to the left, or a color here or a color there.”

        Her description of her job history doesn’t always match employment records.

  • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Rutherford County elected Davenport to the newly created job of juvenile court judge. Her opponent, a major in the sheriff’s department, was later charged with sex crimes against minors and, in a plea deal, got probation. Davenport has not had another opponent since.

    :epsteingelion: :vote:

    My hatred for these monsters is endless.

    • KermitTheFraud [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Liberals:

      bad people are ruining a good system!

      the good system:

      so what we do is we keep people in a cycle of poverty through racialized oppression and then we kidnap their children when they can’t keep up with everything or turn to substance abuse

  • sammer510 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    It seems like every day I kick over another log and discover another nest of vermin. Doesn't it get exhausting

  • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This shit fills me with impotent rage and idk what to do about it.

    These parents just get beatdown so hard by injustice they can't even turn to vigilantism because they know it would fuck over their families more than just dealing with it.

    Also this lady is an elected judge but still wins elections even though she should be thrown in solitary herself

      • Quimby [any, any]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        And the pedo got a lighter sentence than any of the children in the article. Did you catch that?

      • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        You would think literally anyone else but a pedo could run and win but I guess not