Anyone want to understand the failings of money bail? Look no further: strong evidence of a white shooter motivated by racial bias committing a double murder with an assault rifle. But wealth sets him free.https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/11/20/kyle-rittenhouse-accused-kenosha-shooter-released-2-million-bail/6363593002/ …
I don’t think Boudin is suggesting that Rittenhouse should not have been released on bail because of his skin color or political leanings. He’s merely drawing attention to the disparate treatment of whites and blacks in our justice system.
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It’s important to keep in mind the prevalence of racial bias in bail decisions as context for Boudin’s tweet. http://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents/Yang%20paper%20DEC%206%20ADY_RacialBias.pdf …
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The existence of racial biases in the justice system does not call for abolishing basic legal rights for everyone, but for extending them to everyone.
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He is arguing that defendants should not have a right to be released until their trail if bail and public safety would allow that, because here is a presumably evil, presumably white supremacist, presumably rich kid who was able to post the bail that the judge set?
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He’s saying, here’s a situation where someone who is accused of a double murder is set free because of wealth while so many poor (and often black) people accused of less dangerous offenses are kept in jail because they can’t post $500 bail.
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