““She may very well should have been convicted, but what you see in the sentencing is there’s no way to reform,” Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve said in a telephone interview. “It’s a punitive system. The sins of the past will follow you forever.””
Yet somehow most people manage to get through life without multiple convictions for violent crimes. I note she was yet again in jail when she decided to kick someone: “when she kicked a sheriff’s deputy in the shin during a struggle in a lockup”
She apparently had several chances to :'reform" but couldn’t be bothered.
Turn it around, if a white cop kicked a black woman in this fashion, there’d be people here howling for his head on a spike. Especially if he had a prior record of doing this.
“The sins of the past will follow you forever.”" Why should they not for things like a propensity towards violence? Society as a whole had a right to know when such people keep on with their “bad decisions” (To use a currently popular excuse for murder, rape and assorted mayhem in general.)
