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Those of you who've been around may recall the incident in December 2004 when Kim's car was broken into while she was stopped in traffic by a notorious smash-and-grab thief, a repeat offender and known scumbag.
They caught the fucker a couple weeks later. He's been locked up since.
The New Orleans District Attorney called us a couple weeks ago, to get Kim out there to testify in court. The intent was to add to his life sentence the impossibility of parole.
So, yesterday, in front of a judge and a jury of neither his peers nor hers (a half-dozen elderly black folks), badgered by the compleat picture of the pompous public defender (jovial, condescending, oversized, regal of hair and loud of suit), Kim had to relive one of the most awful events of her life.
... and then have the jury think she was lying, and find the guy not guilty.
Yes, I absolutely think the verdict was about race. When a desperate black criminal preys on a white woman, and she picks him out of a lineup and says "That's the motherfucker who was half-in my car, stealing my stuff, less than a foot away from me," of course she's lying and has pre-judged him.
When Kim told me this, we were both glad I wasn't present at the trial, because I would have had to be restrained. I would have tied to kick the shit out of the defendant, his lawyer, and every single one of those bigoted, dishonest, self-serving fucks in the jury.
Tyrone Conner, you subhuman sack of shit, may you rot in prison until you choke on a deserved shiv.
They caught the fucker a couple weeks later. He's been locked up since.
The New Orleans District Attorney called us a couple weeks ago, to get Kim out there to testify in court. The intent was to add to his life sentence the impossibility of parole.
So, yesterday, in front of a judge and a jury of neither his peers nor hers (a half-dozen elderly black folks), badgered by the compleat picture of the pompous public defender (jovial, condescending, oversized, regal of hair and loud of suit), Kim had to relive one of the most awful events of her life.
... and then have the jury think she was lying, and find the guy not guilty.
Yes, I absolutely think the verdict was about race. When a desperate black criminal preys on a white woman, and she picks him out of a lineup and says "That's the motherfucker who was half-in my car, stealing my stuff, less than a foot away from me," of course she's lying and has pre-judged him.
When Kim told me this, we were both glad I wasn't present at the trial, because I would have had to be restrained. I would have tied to kick the shit out of the defendant, his lawyer, and every single one of those bigoted, dishonest, self-serving fucks in the jury.
Tyrone Conner, you subhuman sack of shit, may you rot in prison until you choke on a deserved shiv.
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