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7th May 2019, 06:47 AM | #1 |
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Black Woman Arrested For White Woman's Crime
A WHITE WOMAN WAS CAUGHT ON TAPE SELLING HEROIN, BUT POLICE ARRESTED A BLACK WOMAN INSTEAD
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And it just gets more absurd from there. The mental gyrations that the DA's office goes through to justify prosecuting Noone for the woman's crime, the numerous other differences between the women other than race, and the fact that the DA's office still refuses to arrest the woman in the video despite claiming to know her identity is beyond bizarre. They even insisted that Noone prove that she's black. There are pictures of Noone in the article, next to pictures of the woman in the video that the police insist is her. There are no words for how utterly absurd the comparison is. The racism on display here is off the charts, yet the state government is doing nothing about it. There's a civil rights lawsuit in the works, we'll see how that goes. Cue the usual suspects showing up to "explain" to us how this isn't racism, and that the police officers and DA are the real victims here. |
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7th May 2019, 08:22 AM | #3 |
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I wonder how much of this can be attributed to DA's just going for a "win" rather than serving justice. Realistically, the DA has a lot of power and most convictions are the result of negotiated plea bargain. I wouldn't be surprised if they thought they could just turn the screws on this lady and eek out a plea of some sort, never having to admit a screw-up. They were sitting on video which completely exonerated the accused, but didn't have to turn it over until later on down the road, and that may never even happen if a plea occurs early. This lady happened to be willing to fight to the bitter end, but many others may have just taken a plea just to move on with life, especially in cases where bail is too expensive and the accused is just sitting in prison waiting for trial.
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7th May 2019, 08:34 AM | #5 |
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This particular case may be particularly abhorrent, but I imagine less severe gamesmanship is occurring all the time.
Trial by jury is not the norm in this country. The vast majority of criminal cases are concluded with guilty pleas. Poor people who can't afford bail have a strong incentive to plead guilty, regardless of the strength of the case against them. Someone on pre-trial detention could easily spend more time in jail fighting the case then they would ever be sentenced as part of a conviction, so "winning" a case is still comes with tremendous personal costs largely indistinguishable with being punished as part of a guilty conviction. From a purely rational point of view, there are plenty of reasons an innocent person would plead guilty. The system is broken. |
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7th May 2019, 08:37 AM | #6 |
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Yep. Happens.
Reminds me of Dymond Milburn, who police mistook for three white prostitutes, beat her as she yelled for help, arrested her, and charged with assaulting an officer. |
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Exactly. Cops put a lot of effort into undercover busts, and don't toss them out the window over some schmuck randomly wanting to be racist. They likely made a bad ID that would have screwed their case, and are trying to keep it together to get the bust.
That said, they really needed to knock it off when another woman's rights were being clearly violated. The most racist angle here seems to be the 5-0 not being that worried that a black woman was getting the screws. If it were a white suburban mommy, I have to think they would have eaten humble pie post haste. |
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That's a strange way of putting it. They didn't make an arrest of a criminal that's now likely to be thrown out on a technicality; they're actively trying to convict someone whom they know not to be the individual they were trying to arrest. That seems to suggest a mindset where simply putting random people in jail for the minimum amount of effort is seen as the aim of the job.
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Why? she was likely the one they were trying to arrest, after all it was her boyfriend who was the head dealer. So getting her lined up to testify against him in exchange for reduced sentence seems a totally reasonable course of action. Why should the minor detail of her not being the one to deliver the drugs be that big a handicap to the whole process?
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perhaps she was in whiteface
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If you read the article and look at the pictures in it, there's no way that this was something as simple as a bad ID. There is practically no similarity between the woman in the video and Noone aside from the fact that they're both human and female. Worse, if you read the DA's actual justifications for pursuing Noone, they veer well into unbelievable territory. If a fictional character acted like he is, it would immediately be dismissed as an over-the-top caricature and the writer chastised for such a ludicrously unrealistic portrayal. I'm convinced no one involved actually cared whether Noone was right person or not, but picked her up solely because she was the dealer's girlfriend at the time, and because she was black. Per the article, they still have not arrested the white woman in the video, despite asserting that they know her identity. |
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While they're by no means dead ringers, they are not all that far off in the pics. But I think the bust seems to be focused on the dealer, not the bag man. The bad ID I suspect was due to the undercovers not caring much who was carrying the heroin, and the unexpected switch may have caught them off guard, resulting in the bad collar due to sloppy procedure.
At that point, it's typical police not wanting to lose or be wrong. I'm very confident that treating her like a second class citizen afterwards is irredeemable, though. You just can't do that, ever. eta: your edit. Agreed, a dealers girlfriend is not someone who they likely cared if they were violating the human rights of. But that's tough, because it's their job. Regarding the white bag woman, they know who she is but can't find her, I thought? |
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Chrissakes, even putting aside the difference in skin colour, they don't look anything alike. Their face shapes are completely different.
The white woman is very round-faced with a near double chin and a slightly Roman nose, while Noone is fine featured, with a pointy chin and her nose is distincty "Carey Mulligan" |
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I can never understand these cases where the police are obviously wrong, but they hang on like a leech and refuse to admit they are wrong.
Why not just admit you've got the wrong person right away? The longer you persist, the bigger the payout will be for the victim. Lawyers are lining up. |
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I think the problem is, at least in part, due to an excessively loose definition of the term "bad guy" in the above; it seems to include "anyone who knows a bad guy," "anyone who looks
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I think this is what happened also.
The boyfriend got 2 years in jail and half a dozen years probation, but it took more than a year to finally drop the charges against Noone and the cops have yet to charge the right woman even though they know who she is.
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Speculation: The cops arrested Noone because the expected she would deliver the drugs. They didn't arrest the white actual deliverer because she's one of their informants.
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I think you need to appreciate that pulling a stunt like this in other countries would bring a whole heap of crap down on the police/prosecutors attempting anything like this. Using an actual lesser crime by a "minor" criminal to get them to testify against a "major" criminal certainly happens, but trying to fabricate the initial lesser crime just wouldn't work.
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