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re: Lawyer: Racism key in Mississippi hot car death
Posted on 5/23/16 at 3:21 pm to slackster
Posted on 5/23/16 at 3:21 pm to slackster
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So the reason he is not grieving and the reason he is not a normal father is because he is black?
A white woman a few weeks prior wasn't charged with anything.
They hit this dude with 2nd degree murder.
Posted on 5/23/16 at 3:23 pm to LordSaintly
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A white woman a few weeks prior wasn't charged with anything. They hit this dude with 2nd degree murder
I get the story, I just don't agree with the way the attorney is phrasing his story in the media.
ETA: 2nd degree murder seems a bit much if it was a negligent death of some sort. I'm not sure what the criminal code reads in MS, but a "murder" charge for the death of a child due to negligence seems over the top unless there are more details that lead them to think it was intentional in some way.
This quote by the attorney is a bit insensitive as well:
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"It's a miscarriage of justice for him to be sitting in jail," he said.
This post was edited on 5/23/16 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 5/23/16 at 3:51 pm to LordSaintly
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A white woman a few weeks prior wasn't charged with anything.
White people have been charged for this exact thing before. Every district, and every DA responds differently.
What's most alarming here is how often this kind of shite happens. It's basically any parent's worst nightmare.
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The defendant was an immense man, well over 300 pounds, but in the gravity of his sorrow and shame he seemed larger still. He hunched forward in the sturdy wooden armchair that barely contained him, sobbing softly into tissue after tissue, a leg bouncing nervously under the table. In the first pew of spectators sat his wife, looking stricken, absently twisting her wedding band. The room was a sepulcher. Witnesses spoke softly of events so painful that many lost their composure. When a hospital emergency room nurse described how the defendant had behaved after the police first brought him in, she wept. He was virtually catatonic, she remembered, his eyes shut tight, rocking back and forth, locked away in some unfathomable private torment. He would not speak at all for the longest time, not until the nurse sank down beside him and held his hand. It was only then that the patient began to open up, and what he said was that he didn’t want any sedation, that he didn’t deserve a respite from pain, that he wanted to feel it all, and then to die.
The charge in the courtroom was manslaughter, brought by the Commonwealth of Virginia. No significant facts were in dispute. Miles Harrison, 49, was an amiable person, a diligent businessman and a doting, conscientious father until the day last summer -- beset by problems at work, making call after call on his cellphone -- he forgot to drop his son, Chase, at day care. The toddler slowly sweltered to death, strapped into a car seat for nearly nine hours in an office parking lot in Herndon in the blistering heat of July.
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Two decades ago, this was relatively rare. But in the early 1990s, car-safety experts declared that passenger-side front airbags could kill children, and they recommended that child seats be moved to the back of the car; then, for even more safety for the very young, that the baby seats be pivoted to face the rear. If few foresaw the tragic consequence of the lessened visibility of the child . . . well, who can blame them? What kind of person forgets a baby?
The wealthy do, it turns out. And the poor, and the middle class. Parents of all ages and ethnicities do it. Mothers are just as likely to do it as fathers. It happens to the chronically absent-minded and to the fanatically organized, to the college-educated and to the marginally literate. In the last 10 years, it has happened to a dentist. A postal clerk. A social worker. A police officer. An accountant. A soldier. A paralegal. An electrician. A Protestant clergyman. A rabbinical student. A nurse. A construction worker. An assistant principal. It happened to a mental health counselor, a college professor and a pizza chef. It happened to a pediatrician. It happened to a rocket scientist.
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There may be no act of human failing that more fundamentally challenges our society’s views about crime, punishment, justice and mercy. According to statistics compiled by a national childs’ safety advocacy group, in about 40 percent of cases authorities examine the evidence, determine that the child’s death was a terrible accident -- a mistake of memory that delivers a lifelong sentence of guilt far greater than any a judge or jury could mete out -- and file no charges. In the other 60 percent of the cases, parsing essentially identical facts and applying them to essentially identical laws, authorities decide that the negligence was so great and the injury so grievous that it must be called a felony, and it must be aggressively pursued.
In roughly 60 percent of these cases, charges are filed.
This post was edited on 5/23/16 at 3:58 pm
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