re: Lawyer won't remove BLM pin - held in contempt - her statement tho

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FWIW, she wore the pin on Wednesday, in the same court room, and had no issues. Apparently people complained, so the judge asked her to remove it on Friday, and when she declined to do so, she was held in contempt.

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Where did you get this from? It wasn't in the article. Soooo link please.

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Holy freaking shite

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Thank God the bank was quick enough to figure it out and call. It was a small Louisiana Parish, and everyone knows everyone. The banker (trustee) called the judge and said, basically, "Your honor, I don't want to question you, but this is the 3rd substantial withdrawal this month and the pattern is troubling. If these are legitimate, I'll shut up."

Judge gets off the phone, tells me what just went down - now she had been in the previous month, and the judge signed a release for her for school supplies and stuff. Anyway, he says, "I only remember that 1 in a long time. Go pull the file."

I did, the banker sent over the releases and we pieced 2 and 2 together. Thing is, it was a 6-figure settlement and she was given a monthly stipend, automatically, for them for routine living expenses. This was several years down the line, and she had just gotten used to blowing through that right away and would come to the judge every month for something - she wanted to buy them a tv, and then a 4-wheeler (judge said no to that one), take them on vacation to Florida, and so forth. He finally cut her off about April or May (this was in September when we caught her).

So, she just started forging - not really - she would copy a prior release and change the amount and date. She got sloppy with that which made the trustee look more closely, that, plus the pattern caused him to call the judge. Because they were forgeries, I'm pretty sure they made the account whole.

I honestly don't remember what happened to her, but I think it was less trouble than you might imagine. Still took stones the size of bowling balls (IMHO).

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Where did you get this from? It wasn't in the article. Soooo link please.

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WaPo article

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The pin arrived in the mail later and a little smaller than Burton expected. But she clipped it to her outfit and wore it to work.

That was last Wednesday, a day Burton said went off without a problem. But on Friday, when she wore the pin again, she was called back into Judge Milich’s chambers.

“It was virtually hidden on Friday,” Burton said. In one video, she can be seen wearing an oversized jacket. “I guess people knew to look for it though.”

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Yeah, I've got no issue with it now. The original article made it seem like it was an immediate reaction from the judge, which IMO is a little petty. I never argued against the legality of the decision, just that unless it is some blatant, large pin, I didn't see the harm. In reality, it was allowed until it became a problem. That is the way he should have handled it, so kudos.

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WTF is this supposed to mean? 

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I think what she's trying to say is that she feels as if black lives don't matter as much these days due to things happening like Alton Sterling etc..

In reality black on black crime kills more blacks than cancer and that's the real problem