Brickbat: True Colors

County Attorney Mary Moriarty of Hennepin County, Minnesota now requires prosecutors to consider a defendant's race when offering plea deals. She says the policy will address racial disparities in the justice system. Critics say the policy is vaguely written—likely to avoid being clearly unconstitutional—but could still be overturned if challenged.

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[Vernon Depner]

the policy will address racial disparities in the justice system.

Will it consider racial disparities in criminal behavior?

[Fist of Etiquette]

...but could still be overturned if challenged.

What kind of bigot would challenge such a thing.

[Mickey Rat]

But Critical Race Theory is not a problem.

[Crackers Boy]

In the South, we call people who "consider....race when..." racists.

CB

[TJJ2000]

^THAT Indeed.....

Racist leftards self-projecting their own racism onto everyone else.
Case #5278432657432067832459027469320674398275.

[Nobartium]

Integration still a mistake, now they aren't even pretending otherwise.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

Skin color is the most important thing.

[Longtobefree]

Just for the record:
-Democrat.
-Mary Moriarty elected 2023, first LGBT Hennepin County Attorney.
-In a notable case from March 2023, Moriarty offered controversial plea deals to a 15 and 17-year-old charged with second-degree murder after shooting Zaria McKeever in Brooklyn Park. The plea deals allowed the defendants to serve 18 to 24 months in a juvenile correctional facility, with probation upon release until the age of 21.[29] Moriarty's decision was criticized by the family of the murder victim, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minnesota's largest police association, and community activists, who felt betrayed by what they viewed as lack of accountability for the killers and a miscarriage of justice for survivors.
-In September 2023, Moriarty announced that she would consider prosecution of a state trooper involved in the deadly shooting of Ricky Cobb II. Moriarty emphasized her consulting of a use-of-force expert, she later charged the trooper with murder in January 2024, determining that "charges were appropriate without the use of an expert". Moriarty stopped consulting with Noble after a meeting regarding his preliminary thoughts on the case, where Noble gave his opinion that the trooper acted reasonably in shooting Cobb.

[Super Scary]

"consider a defendant's race"

Her thought process is, "It's ok because the police probably did it first!"

[Think It Through]

Is she British?

[mad.casual]

Critics say the policy is vaguely written—likely to avoid being clearly unconstitutional

Because your own magazine has played out "unconstiutional" (and "free speech" and "due process"...) maybe try a sentence about how vagueness invites abuse. A law that's too vague allows favorable sentences for white supremacists the way it allows favorable sentences for black nationalists.

But, of course, such a sentence or diatribe would involve taking responsibility for things you or others write, understanding the spirit and context in which things were written, and doing at least the bare minimum to act in good faith, and that's not conducive to modern journalism.