#mandatory minimums

[itsmythang]

Denzel not winning an Academy Awards or Oscars for Malcolm X is an absolute disgrace 🤨

Oscars will never reward black heroism but servitude. Slave characters win Oscars, but Black hero and leadership characters are often neglected. Such movies are viewed as a threat to white American power structures.

Denzel didn’t win the Oscar because they didn’t give Al Pacino the Oscar for The Godfather or Scarface.. so they felt like they owed it to him for Scent of a Woman, which he played a great character. Training Day did the same with Denzel …🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️ just my POV …I could be wrong..🤔

[onegingertoomanyfandoms]

Ya know, we used to be a country.

You could be the Deputy WH Chief of Staff and get a call from a senator and tell him “Take your legislative agenda and shove it up your ass”

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Good news!

https://twitter.com/r_garrison/status/1593399662610120704?s=46&t=A56lUn8kBd7WC39Vmj6QWw

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[reasoningdaily]

Cop Who Pinned Pregnant Woman & Tased Her Belly Gets A Month In Jail

he killed her baby he traumatized her and he only got one month in jail? America is so fucked up right now it doesn't even apply mandatory minimums to these white supremacist sentences

[uboat53]

Well, the 1/6 rioter who maced a police officer who later died has been sentenced. 80 months, a bit short of 7 years.

And, on the one hand, yes, that's a pretty long sentence. Can you imagine losing 7 years of your life? That is genuinely a long time.

On the other hand, the mandatory minimum for selling 280 grams of crack cocaine, a crime which is non-violent, is 10 years.

I'm not arguing that anyone needs to go to prison for longer, I think that our system is generally overly punitive as it is, but I think the fact that a person who violently assaulted a uniformed officer leading to his death while attacking the nation's legislature in an attempt to overthrow the results of a legitimate election doesn't even get 7 years in prison should make us question whether 10-20 year sentences are warranted for just about anything else.

[lemon-lyman]

JOSH LYMAN | 1.20 ‘Mandatory Minimums’ 

[bartletforamerica]

My professor: This is my Thursday shirt. So you'll be seeing it often.

Me, my hands hovering over the chat, wanting to ask: