IMAGINE being unfortunate enough to be Black and live in Mississippi.
Looks like nothing much has changed there since "In The Heat Of The Night".
https://www.heraldstandard.com/news/national/mississippi-upholds--year-sentence-for-cellphone-in-jail/article_f8dd2474-e085-5d91-864c-cbe146d9c9b4.html 12-year sentence for jail phone is 'failure,' justice says
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court's confirmation of a 12-year prison sentence for an African American man who carried his mobile phone into a county jail cell is being slammed as a brutal example of racial injustice.
Even one of the justices who joined in the unanimous ruling said that while the sentence is legal, the prosecutor and trial judge could have avoided punishing the man entirely.
Justice Leslie King is currently the only African American justice on the nine-member court. He wrote that Willie Nash's case “seems to demonstrate a failure of our criminal justice system on multiple levels" because it's not clear whether Nash was properly searched or told not to take his phone into his cell when he was booked on a misdemeanor charge.#####
Where's 'Hollywood'?
They were all outraged when that French actor Juicy Smoolyay said he was beaten up in Chicago late at night by White guys wearing MAGA hats.
Outrage all over their Twitter feeds, "Justice for juicy" and all that.
So, hey, what about some
"Justice for Willie" outrage? ...demanding a 'retrial' and maybe a 12 day or 12 month extra sentence, not 12 years.
Or no extra sentence! easy to come up with an excuse..."Mr Nash was never told he could not take his phone into his cell".
The best idea is for all the Black people in Mississippi to move out and go live in other states.
They could announce they're moving to Hollywood.
Or Washington DC.
5 deaths in the Mississippi prison system in recent days?
Someone should be finding out what's going on...running the place thru a very large microscope.
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