I wonder. I was watching this documentary on a serial killer who, as a 15 year old, killed his grandparents because he “wanted to see what it was like to kill grandma” and then didn’t want his grandfather to be alone and murdered him. He was tried as a child and had his record expunged.
But a young black girl can be tried as an adult for killing her rapist.
I wonder what I would find if I looked up statistics of being tried as an adult and race. Given how often poc children are treated with inherently less empathy and seen as adults.
Zero plot twist.
I took a class on race, gender, and the criminal justice system and I can confirm
The United States of America was the laughingstock of the world Tuesday, and it had nothing to do with the president’s Oval Office Smackdown with Chuck and Nancy. Yes, while the World’s Most Powerful Man was ruining his made-for-TV special with repeated self-owns, there was actually another reason for countries still somewhat moored to reality to cackle in our national face. The Trump administration dispatched an adviser—the inevitably named Wells Griffith—to a United Nations conference in Poland focused on combatting the climate crisis, and he apparently had a mandate to use his appearance to extol the virtues of fossil fuels.
You know, the stuff that’s causing the crisis, because we keep burning it. This did not go over well.
