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NAACP Wants Probe Of "Barbie Bandits" Case
AP ^ | April 8, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 04/09/2008 4:17:54 AM PDT by tlb

The head of the Georgia NAACP called for the state to investigate the sentences given in the so-called "Barbie bandits" bank theft case, saying the two white defendants got less prison time than two black men.

Edward DuBose said Monday he will ask state Attorney General Thurbert Baker to look into the case.

Baker's office said Tuesday the attorney general had not received any complaints in the case.

Last month, Cobb County Superior Court Judge Mary Staley sentenced 20-year-old Heather Johnston to 10 years probation after she pleaded guilty to a charge of theft by taking in the 2007 heist. The judge gave 19-year-old Ashley Miller two years in jail and eight years probation. Both women are white.

Michael Chastang, 28, was sentenced to 10 years for being the mastermind of the robbery, and bank teller Bennie Allen III, 23, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to five years. Both men are black. Chastang also is serving 15 years on unrelated drug-trafficking charges and Allen was on probation for a drug conviction.

Johnston and Miller - both former exotic dancers who went by the stage names "Charlie" and "Adrienne" - were nicknamed the "Barbie bandits" after they were videotaped wearing sunglasses and laughing as they appeared to rob a Bank of America branch in Acworth of $11,000.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Georgia
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For a proper comparison the NAACP should have waited for a two black strippers to rob a bank.
1 posted on 04/09/2008 4:17:54 AM PDT by tlb
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To: tlb

Maybe if the the two black robbers had been a little more creative—robbed dressed like Nilli-Vanilli, then maybe they would have been given a shorter sentence, as well.


2 posted on 04/09/2008 4:26:20 AM PDT by Keli Kilohana (Editor, ZARR CHASM CHRONICAL [sic], Sore, WV)
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To: tlb

Blacks had priors - Barbie’s had none.


3 posted on 04/09/2008 4:38:52 AM PDT by Eurale
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To: Eurale

Apparently only one of the black defendants pleaded guilty, too.


4 posted on 04/09/2008 4:42:32 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Keli Kilohana

The members of the NAACP should be upset as to what their dues are being used to pay for. We would do better to figure out how to stamp out crime in our community and come up with ways for young people to get an education instead of worrying about the sentences of crimminals. They have got their priorities in the wrong place.


5 posted on 04/09/2008 4:47:43 AM PDT by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Sexy Conservative!!!)
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To: tlb

Is the NAACP doing the same with OJ??


6 posted on 04/09/2008 4:53:23 AM PDT by bikerman (_ _ . /_ _ _ /_ . . / / . . . . / . / . _ . . / . _ _ . / / . . _ / . . . //)
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To: tlb

What ever happened to the black stripper that falsely accused the Duke lacrosse team? Is the NAACP looking into her lack of charges?


7 posted on 04/09/2008 4:57:42 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: tlb

Their time would be put to better use if they would attempt to get their people to stop committing crime.


8 posted on 04/09/2008 5:02:13 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: brwnsuga

I found a teenage worker sound asleep again in the broom closet and fired him. I was made to rehire him because his parent was head of the local NAACP.


9 posted on 04/09/2008 5:08:56 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (The fence is "absolutely not the answer" - Gov. Rick Perry (R, TX))
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

NAACP should become more active in Philadelphia where black teen thugs are beating and robbing transit commuters. They killed the white manager of the Philly Starbucks last week. Beating up communters does not bother the NAACP. There have been 4 attacks in a couple of weeks.


10 posted on 04/09/2008 5:23:41 AM PDT by oldironsides
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To: tlb

Did the chick on the left spend all the loot on donuts? Seriously, how do you gain that much weight in your face in a week?

11 posted on 04/09/2008 5:26:38 AM PDT by jdm
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To: tlb

They likely weren’t all charged with the same crime because of level and type of involvement.
For instance if the mastermind was charged with, what is it, conspiracy, along with theft, that sort of thing. How you plead and priors also matter.


12 posted on 04/09/2008 5:28:30 AM PDT by visualops (artlife.us nature wallpapers)
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To: tlb

NAACP composed of communist marxist anti- white “Blood Monkeys. This organization needs to be shutdown for it’s Anti-American beliefs and racial extortion criminal demands.

They are nothing more than a urban terrorist organization, who the Feds continue to coddle.

Just The Facts,
NSNR


13 posted on 04/09/2008 5:41:09 AM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat (Xin Loi My Boy!!!!)
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To: oldironsides

Damn those typical white people should start carrying concealed to eliminate the belief that a crime can be committed against a Whitey.

America needs a Death Wish 6 vigilante, in these types of domestic urban terrorist attacks.

One should keep in mind, when dealing with these less than human primates, “terminate them all with extreme prejudice.”

Our Legal System protects and coddles these vermin based on their race and other fantasy tales in life.

Just The Facts,
NSNR


14 posted on 04/09/2008 5:46:52 AM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat (Xin Loi My Boy!!!!)
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To: tlb

I agree with the NAACP to this extent. The two white chicks should have gotten harder sentences.


15 posted on 04/09/2008 6:09:08 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: tlb

This idiot should realize that these sentences were due to gender not race - women usually get off easier for violent crimes.


16 posted on 04/09/2008 6:11:25 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: ohioman

Go to a Women’s Prison and they all say the same thing. It’s some guy’s fault. They’re only in prsion because they loved the wrong guy. etc...
But the two guys had priors, violated their probation and were the masterminds.
How many mindless girls did Batman put away?


17 posted on 04/09/2008 6:29:05 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: popdonnelly

“I agree with the NAACP to this extent. The two white chicks should have gotten harder sentences.”

No doubt!


18 posted on 04/09/2008 6:29:41 AM PDT by Reagan79 (Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys)
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To: tlb

Did they use a gun? I think that may have played a part. It was more a conspiracy with the teller and them rather than pulling a gun as in most bank robberies ..... maybe the NAACP should look into that as well ... seems they always play the race card ....


19 posted on 04/09/2008 6:39:50 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("I Believe In Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
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To: Eurale
Blacks had priors - Barbie’s had none.

Hey, you're not supposed to bring that stuff up!

They only had "priors" because of their oppressed socio-economic condition caused by

< Rev Wright > RICH WHITE PEOPLE < /Rev Wright >

20 posted on 04/09/2008 6:42:21 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: No Surrender No Retreat

oooooo you referred to some African Americans as “monkeys” -

report to the “re-education camp” immediately.


21 posted on 04/09/2008 6:43:24 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: massgopguy

You are right. In my life, I have known 2 women (not closely) who went to prison for awhile and both blamed the guys they were with.


22 posted on 04/09/2008 6:48:39 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: Eurale

Anyway, their better looking!


23 posted on 04/09/2008 6:51:44 AM PDT by cameraeye (The Lords Prayer on Obama's Lips? Where's the video?)
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To: tlb
Chastang also is serving 15 years on unrelated drug-trafficking charges and Allen was on probation for a drug conviction.

Hmmmm. Maybe the NAACP should have a look at their priors.

Nahhh. They couldn't be THAT stupid, could they?

24 posted on 04/09/2008 7:07:43 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Benedict Arnold, the Rosenbergs and Joe Kennedy were all against the Terrorist Surveillance Program)
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MrB if one acts like a monkey then one should be called a monkey. I am just waiting outside the P.C. gulag with my Mack Daddy GAU for the welcoming committe.

Respectfully,
NSNR


25 posted on 04/09/2008 11:34:41 AM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat (Xin Loi My Boy!!!!)
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To: tlb

The lighter sentences went to the ones who basically just walked in, picked up the money, and walked out.
The harsher sentences went to the insiders who arranged it.


26 posted on 04/09/2008 11:39:04 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. - Ratatouille)
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To: tlb

As much as I generally dislike the NAACP, they do have a point in this case. Nat saying they sentences should have been the same, but the disparity is far too great, in my opinion.


27 posted on 04/09/2008 11:43:54 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: tlb

I didn’t know there were any black people involved until the NAACP called attention to it. Way to go, guys.


28 posted on 04/09/2008 1:33:12 PM PDT by murdoog (I)
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