Attorney Who Advised Kiera Be Charged With Felony, Drops Charges In White Teen’s Fatal Case Days Lat

[Drale]

Assistant State Attorney Tammy Glotfelty, who advised Officer Gregory Rhoden to charge 16-year-old Kiera Wilmot with a felony, has some explaining to do. Just days after doling out a stiff charge for Kiera, Glotfelty decided not to bring any charges against White 13-year-old Taylor Richardson, who mistakenly killed his younger brother with a BB gun, because she deemed his case was a “tragic accident.”

When it broke last week that Kiera would be expelled from Bartow High School and tried as an adult for experimenting with toilet bowl cleaner, aluminum, and an 8-ounce water bottle, Kiera’s plight immediately gripped the nation.

In addition, the fact that her own principal and peers could vouch for her character as a good-natured honors student, made the authorities’ decision to mete out the harsh punishment even more heartless.

But the latest discovery in the Kiera’s case revives — in real time — just how dangerous racism is in the criminal justice system.

http://newsone.com/2440220/kiera-wilmot-florida-science-experiment-2/

Wow, just.......wow

[liberalhistorian]

1. I'm not surprised at all, and this so-called

prosecutor ("persecutor" would be a better word for her) needs to be called out and hauled onto the carpet by her superiors and those who pay her salary and benefits, the people. Unfortunately, having once worked in the legal field, I am more than well aware of the built-in, institutionalized racial and socioeconomic biases that occur ALL the time within its "hallowed" halls, despite all the lofty proclamations otherwise.

In both the state I live in now, South Dakota, and the state I was raised in and where I spent the first twenty years of my adulthood, Ohio, I saw plenty of evidence for it also. In SD, whites, especially white teenagers, can get away with a LOT of shit. But if an Indian child or teen so much as looks askance at someone or something, the handcuffs are slapped on and off to the prison portion of the school-to-prison pipeline they go. Indians are hit with heavier charges and longer and harsher sentences than whites for the same crimes.

In Ohio, it was the same, although mainly as it applied to blacks getting charged more and heavier, with harsher sentences, than whites for the same crimes, or blacks being charged for stupid pranks or stuff that, when whites did it, didn't even merit a slap on the wrist. I remember this was especially true when it came to family and parental law. If a white suburban mother left her child in a car and the child died, the prosecutor wouldn't bring charges because she'd "suffered enough". But if that mother were poorer and darker, down would come the long arm of the law. EVERY time, and I can name at least four cases off the top of my head. It's still that way, for the most part.

[ZRT2209]

2. FIRE GLOTFELTY IMMEDIATELY.She is an obscenity to justice. Absolutely Disgusting.

[ck4829]

3. K&R! This is a joke! This has to be.

[heaven05]

4. good

old american double standard. Racism? Hell yes!!!! Ever going away? Probably not. Been here since Jamestown.

[ck4829]

5. This thing is so devastating in so many ways

I like reading about science and the occasional experiment. I remember once when I was in school, we were cleaning up after chemistry class, and I put some steel wool on a battery, and it caused a violent reaction of sorts. The teacher just laughed it and we left class.

Basically, if no aspect of this sickens you to your very core, whether it's the racism in here, the utter extreme and unjustified action, the double standard, or the fact that a curious mind was pretty much trampled on in the name of zero tolerance; then I think that there would be something very wrong with you.

[heaven05]

6. hear! hear!

[liberalhistorian]

10. In addition to blatant racism, do you think another reason for it

is also anti-science sentiment or, at best, a complete lack of understanding of science and scientific endeavors, methods and experiments? It IS Flori-DUH, after all. I think we're beginning to see the consequences of our national scientific illiteracy and anti-science sentiment.

[Half-Century Man]

7. If...

Tammy Glotfelty could not see the injustice in her unequal treatment of the Wilmot and Richardson cases after years of studying and practicing law. She is incompetent, or willfully targeting non-whites.
I ask Ms. Glotfelty, which title would you like?

[1monster]

8. Poll: Do you find the Assistant State Attorney's ruling on Wilmot racist?

Given the Assistant State Attorney's ruling on the Richardson case, do you find her ruling on Wilmot racist?


Yes, absolutely. 97.25% (3,078 votes)


No, not at all. 2.75% (87 votes)


Total Votes: 3,165

http://newsone.com/2440220/kiera-wilmot-florida-science-experiment-2/

[aggiesal]

9. To fix the problem . . .

instead of dropping charges against the black girl Kiera Wilmot,
they'll charge the white boy Taylor Richardson.

Then you'll see all the racist bigots complain about reverse racism!