(The driver faced no charges.)
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This is America. This is not Trump’s America, this is America.
Americans, when Trump is dead or when the civil war ends or how ever you get rid of his orange ass, this is America that needs fixing.
Let’s play the colors game.
What color is the child? You guessed correctly!!
What color is the DA? You guessed correctly!!
The same DA did not press felony charges for a man who left his gun out for two kids to play with, one of them ending up dead.
Been shown a lot lately because it’s been relevant a lot lately.
Yeah this is some DA bullshit, nothing to do with the story.
Throw all the charges at people and get them to plead to a lesser crime they also didn’t do. If you can make headlines with it, why you’re in line to be a judge or governor or whatever your shriveled evil heart desires.
The father’s black, the mother’s white, the prosecutor is a Republican, and this is North Carolina. And this is The New York Times, so the parents’ race isn’t even mentioned. Wouldn’t know it’s a mixed marriage if the paper hadn’t included a photo, but you can bet District Attorney Travis Page knows.
But they did show several photographs of the parents throughout the article.
And the article is written to highlight the ridiculousness of the charges and even highlights another situation where much more leniency was provided, showing a double standard.
I felt pretty strongly the subtext was screaming racism. That can be much more effective then focusing on it.
They would certainly get more people to read it and question the situation than starting out as “Racist DA uses his role to imprison parents, blaming them for gerting hit by SUV.”
You and I both know, people would stop caring once they learned the races of the child and parents.
But that way, maybe more people read a bit further, and maybe, just fucking maybe, empathized a bit before using the excuse that empathy is toxic.
Its amazing how absolutely adamant America is to refuse to hold parents accountable for all shit they are actually responsible for with their children, but are willing to throw the book at the parents if the kid goes outside and anything happens to them as a victim.
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In addition to the other guy mentioning private prisons and kickbacks, you have prosecutors with win quotas and you have police who all too frequently see everything in black-and-white in their application of the law. After reading the article it sounds like the former reason.
“Gaston County’s district attorney, Travis Page, has not explained why he brought such high charges”
North Carolina? I suspect we all know the answer to that one…
Man, look at those good jeans…
What good genes…? I don’t see any!
…these “happy white politician with their happy white family” photos are so bizarre…
They ain’t happy, look how fake their smiles are. Creepy crazy vibes.
Probably 2.5 kids in the pic too…
Well yeah, it looks like his wife is ½ kid
What grand jury permitted these charges? This is insane. The driver should be arrested not the parents.
- A grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.
- Many states don’t have grand juries. They are only required for federal cases by US constitution.
Ah I didn’t know the second part. I knew Texas had them but didn’t know depends on the state. Well hopefully the judge throws it out or it goes to trial or something.
So if I walked home but on my way got hit and killed by a car, I would’ve committed suicide?
Yep, straight to jail.
Wow. I was still in kindergarden when my mom sent me to the shop to get some milk and stuff. And nobody considered this evil or criminal. Are American kids that unindependent?
Arrested!
“North Carolina is about average for national pedestrian deaths. But in the United States, that average is bleak, three times that of the rest of the developed world. The death toll of Americans on foot rose by 58 percent in the decade leading up to 2022…”
“A common response to the death of a jaywalker — whether an adult or a child — is to blame the victim: Why didn’t the boys cross at a traffic light, less than five minutes away?”
23 months ago a unhoused pedestrian was killed in hit-and-run just around the corner from me in a place I walk for exercise multiple times a week. It blew my mind when I fully considered how few people (especially officials) care when a pedestrian is killed. Sure enough when talking about it with family one of the first things I heard was “What was she even doing near the road” I mentioned the bus stop was only a couple yards away.
I was hit at a crosswalk a year before that by a lady pulling out from stop sign in traffic but at least she was coming from a dead-stop. I watched another guy one or two years ago roll off of some college kids hood because he was crossing at a crosswalk and the kid just made a left turn directly into him… -I’m beginning to think pedestrians need better protections from careless drivers, and I reside in what’s supposed to be a more pedestrian friendly town already.
The high bail seems particularly cruel in this case. The purpose of bail is to ensure the defendant comes to court to answer for the charge, which these parents seemed inclined to do given they want to regain custody of their other children.
How lovely to deal with your kid being run over and then get charged with a crime. There’s no guarantee it would have not happened if they were there, too. Would the driver be at fault then?
“While they sat in jail, furloughed by a judge only to attend their boy’s funeral, social services workers placed the five younger siblings with Mr. Jenkins’s parents and Brandon with a relative of Mrs. Jenkins.”
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I really miss when the phrase, “Look both ways before you cross the street,” was drilled in every kid’s head. Now, I just see so many people (especially teenagers with living next to a high school) completely ignoring where they are walking, ignoring the signs/signals, with all their attention on their phone.
Then we have the new law (at least in California) that says pedestrians don’t have to use a crosswalk if they think it’s safe to cross. 9 times out of 10, they don’t bother looking until maybe thay are halfway across.
Are y’all not telling your kids to look both ways? It’s still very much a thing where I live. Maybe people don’t cross roads with their kids in more rural areas so they are missing that experience?
I’m pretty sure they covered it in my kids elementary schools too. They have a walk to school day each year and empathize safety.
I was on a walk with my kids and it had them stop so that this lady who was walking could go by. The lady who was walking was completely oblivious and nose deep in her phone. Was walking at a snail’s pace. I almost told the kids never mind just go ahead.
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Community rhetoric aside for a moment, I cannot imagine hearing one of your children tell you over the phone their sibling was struck down in front of them. How traumatizing for them all.
