Below is a video of sociopathic despot Kyle Rittenhouse, cashing in on his whiteness, in a court system that explicitly distinguishes how justice is dispensed based on racial identity.
The circus playing out in a Kenosha Wisconsin Courthouse for all the world to see speak much louder than any march or social justice camping could ever do; it exposes the rancid hypocrisy of the American criminal justice system for the world to see.
If you are a casual observer who has no idea how Black, Latino, and Native-American accused people are treated, you would think that this farce is how murder defendants are always treated with white kid-gloves.
However, If you understand that this is not the norm and that this kind of judicial defense and deference of a sociopathic killer is only reserved for whites, you begin to see that the entire world has been brainwashed into believing that there is justice in America.
But this is America where Crystal Mason, a Black woman in Texas, was sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to vote in 2016; the vote was not counted, and Mason had no idea she was ineligible to vote.
The appellate court upheld the blatantly unjust sentence without one iota of shame to add insult to injury. These blatant acts of injustice are daily occurrences in a system in which Black Americans receive 20% harsher sentences for the same crimes than their white counterparts.
The Washington Post reports that in plain English, this is judges make sentencing choices at their own discretion.
In other words, judges are less likely to voluntarily revise sentences downward for black offenders than white ones. And even when judges do reduce black offenders’ sentences, they do so by smaller amounts than white offenders.
Gee, I wonder why that is?
Not to be outdone,[prosecutors] are more likely to charge African Americans with more serious charges than whites for the same crime.”
So if you thought that the inequity and injustice you see playing out with the bottom-feeding, violent police, guess again, the entire system is racially biased, designed to dispense unequal justice.
Oh wait, there is no such thing as unequal justice (oxymoron much).
During her 2018 trial, probation officials testified that they never told Mason she could not vote, but the appeals court said that didn’t matter. (Of course not, she is a black woman, and in all probability, she didn’t vote for the white supremacist Republican candidate)[Welcome to American justice]
Mason was guilty; the court said because she knew she was on supervised release. “Contrary to Mason’s assertion, the fact that she did not know she was legally ineligible to vote was irrelevant to her prosecution,” Justice Wade Birdwell wrote for a three-judge panel on Texas’ second court of appeals. (The irony is that these robed Klansmen have the word ” justice” preceding their names).
If you are white, you are immediately seen as worth saving, regardless of the nature of your crimes. So a rapist or murderer is allowed deference and respect by the courts, but don’t show up to vote if you are Black and are not qualified to vote based on your status in the criminal justice system.
It is automatic prison time for you. [Unknowingly] trying to vote when you are barred by law as a Black person is worse than rapes committed by white men.
NBC NEWS reported that the white 17-year-old son of Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin attempted to cast a ballot twice on Election Day despite being too young to vote, local elections officials said on Friday. Youngkin’s son, who is not being named because he is a minor, tried unsuccessfully to vote at a polling place in Great Falls, Va., which was not the assigned voting location for his home address, officials told News4, an NBC News television affiliate in Washington, D.C. Election workers turned the teen away after they determined he was ineligible to vote, Fairfax County election officials said. He returned 30 minutes later and requested another ballot before being turned away again, News4 reported. The Fairfax County Office of Elections told News4 it was investigating the incident. Still, it noted that it’s unclear whether any laws were broken since the teen presented proper identification and did not end up casting a vote.
No charges have yet been filed against the young white male; which brings us to another young white male facing a trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for two homicides committed during protest prompted by a murderous cop, Rusten Sheskey, who shot an unarmed Jacob Blake seven (7) times in the back at point-blank range.
Oh, that is acceptable police behavior in America as long as the victim is black.
The show trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, opens up America to righteous and deserved ridicule for being a first-class hypocrite.
The performance of the trial judge makes a mockery of jurist prudence, making a mockery of the idea of an impartial trier of facts.
It is a reprehensible and craven onslaught against justice being displayed, an assault steeped in racial prejudice and white privilege.
It is arguable that if the decedents were Black, there would have been no charges filed against Rittenhouse.
At the start of the trial, the trial judge Bruce Schroeder told Prosecutors they were not allowed to refer to Rittenhouse’s dead victims using the word victims.
SCHROEDER: This is a long-held opinion of mine, which very few judges, I guess, share with me. I think it’s loaded — the word victim is a loaded, loaded word.
We all saw Kyle Rittenhouse gun down two people; there is no question of guilt. What’s at stake in a real criminal sense is his degree of criminal culpability and his mens re.a when he pulled the trigger.
What the fuck?
Loaded;.….… two people were murdered, and another injured. The sniveling little coward murdered them, but Schroder decided that he would use the black robe to cover him.
This is right-wing politics plain and simple.
A white male sitting as a trial judge in a case in which the accused murderer, a white male, is seen as having taken out two disposable pieces of trash who dared to demonstrate against police violence against people of color.
It wasn’t the first time, and it certainly will not be the last that a judge decides that a youthful white predator should be protected by the bench rather than punished as the law dictates.
In 2016 Brock Turner was convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault and found himself facing up to ten years in prison after he was discovered assaulting an unconscious and intoxicated woman behind a dumpster.
Judge Aaron Persky handed down a sentence of six months in jail, saying, “A prison sentence would have a severe impact on him. I think he will not be a danger to others.
After the sentence was handed down, people were justifiably outraged. A petition was circulated to have Judge Aaron Persky removed from the bench. It wasn’t Persky’s first or last rodeo in granting stunningly light sentences to rape defendants.
Finally, on June 5th, Persky was recalled by Santa Clara County voters, who supported his removal by a margin of 61.51% to 38.49%. Persky became the first judge to be recalled in California in over 80 years. In October 2018, Persky was ordered to pay $161,825.68 to the recall campaign of one of his opponents, which Persky had sued.
Ironically, Aaron Persky was hired by the Fremont Union High School District to coach junior varsity girls’ tennis; this resulted in another brouhaha, and he was promptly fired. The district announced that his employment at Lynbrook High School in San Jose “has ended.” “We believe this outcome is in the best interest of our students and school community,” the district said in a statement.
Cory Batey was a 19-year-old [Black] standout football player at Vanderbilt; he raped an unconscious woman. The evidence, including security cameras showing the unconscious woman being carried into a dorm room and cellphone photos and videos of the sexual assault, was clear — Batey sexually assaulted the woman.
A jury found Batey guilty of three felony counts, including aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery.
He was immediately remanded into custody and must serve a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 to 25 years in prison.
It would take five hundred years to document just how terrible this system is; it has been under construction for about the same length of time.
These days the courts don’t even bother to present a façade of fairness; judges go about the business of cementing white supremacy without fear of consequence, without shame.
This is at all levels up the food chain to the Supreme Court that refuses to stop the killing of Black convicts who are mentally incapable of understanding what was happening to them.
In some cases, the court refuses to even issue a stay of execution into the state killing of condemned Black offenders who are by all accounts innocent of the charges on which they have been convicted…
The Chief Justice of the Nation’s highest court shamelessly said judges only call balls and strikes…
“Yeah.”
The command performance on display in that Kenosha courtroom is Oscar-worthy; this writer believes it is difficult to see how he will be convicted of the most serious charges against him despite the unequivocal evidence assorted by prosecutors.
Within this system, a double murderer can engage in a command performance to fool the jury of his peers and be allowed time to fine-tune his act by a sympathetic judge who doesn’t even view his dead victims as such.
I’ll tell you what’s loaded.…. it is the system that allows such a load of fecal matter to pass a criminal trial.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.