Portsmouth police announced criminal charges Monday against a bevy of public officials and activists — including state Sen. Louise Lucas, leaders of the NAACP, the city’s top public defender and a School Board member — stemming from a June protest and vandalism at the city’s Confederate monument that left a man seriously injured and much of the statue toppled ... Lucas’ attorney, Don Scott, said she was already in Richmond on Monday to prepare for the session. He called both the charges and the timing of their announcement a politically motivated attack against Black leaders in Portsmouth who have been fighting for criminal justice reform. [More]
In other words, they can do whatever they want and if you object, you're a racist.
The silver lining is if convicted of a felony, those infringements she's so intent on creating will hoist her with her own petard.
[Via Mack H]
"He said it seems like Greene, who is Black, has been “co-opted by hostile forces … trying to take down Black leadership.”
ReplyDeleteSo then -- the rule is that cops are required to rat out brother cops, but Blacks must never rat out brother Blacks. Got it.