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Originally Posted by WWWP (Post 2124517)

Burn it all down

Church

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN2411WG

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Judge Les Hayes once sentenced a single mother to 496 days behind bars for failing to pay traffic tickets. The sentence was so stiff it exceeded the jail time Alabama allows for negligent homicide.

Marquita Johnson, who was locked up in April 2012, says the impact of her time in jail endures today. Johnson’s three children were cast into foster care while she was incarcerated. One daughter was molested, state records show. Another was physically abused.

Judge Hayes took away my life and didn’t care how my children suffered,” said Johnson, now 36. “My girls will never be the same.”

Fellow inmates found her sentence hard to believe. “They had a nickname for me: The Woman with All the Days,” Johnson said. “That’s what they called me: The Woman with All the Days. There were people who had committed real crimes who got out before me.”

In 2016, the state agency that oversees judges charged Hayes with violating Alabama’s code of judicial conduct. According to the Judicial Inquiry Commission, Hayes broke state and federal laws by jailing Johnson and hundreds of other Montgomery residents too poor to pay fines. Among those jailed: a plumber struggling to make rent, a mother who skipped meals to cover the medical bills of her disabled son, and a hotel housekeeper working her way through college.

Hayes is among thousands of state and local judges across America who were allowed to keep positions of extraordinary power and prestige after violating judicial ethics rules or breaking laws they pledged to uphold, a Reuters investigation found.

Judges have made racist statements, lied to state officials and forced defendants to languish in jail without a lawyer – and then returned to the bench, sometimes with little more than a rebuke from the state

...Hayes is set to retire...

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Originally Posted by WWWP (Post 2124517)

Burn it all down

Careful, larper.

Seattle Police Clear Capitol Hill Protest Zone After Mayor Issues Emergency Order

npr

Too bad.

Didn't take long before they developed their own police and started murdering black teenagers. How predictable.

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2124780)

Didn't take long before they developed their own police and started murdering black teenagers. How predictable.

The Mayor's anticipated "Summer of Love" in the "Chop" didn't happen?

Shocking! :D

Well, that's mighty disingenuous. The mayor basically gave these folks a
chance to make their grievances heard in a controlled area which is a hell of a
lot more than protesters usually get under these conditions. Unfortunately, as
what happens in a lot of these instances, the protesters wanted indefinite
control without having a workable plan for the future that they seemed to think
was needed. After a certain amount of time, that shit becomes ugly because
everyone begins arguing about who's gonna clean up the "mess."