Posted on 04/14/2015 11:05:23 AM PDT by RonPaulLives
Outrage is growing over a Kentucky judge who let a home invader who robbed a family at gunpoint off with probation after openly criticizing the victims for letting their child be afraid of black men because of the crime.
Judge Olu Stevens of the Jefferson Circuit Court appeared even more offended by the victim impact statements offered by the family who was robbed than he was by the fact that a crime had been committed at all.
Now, a movement is afoot to have the judge removed from office.
According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, Jordan and Tommy Gray were held at gunpoint with their then 3-year-old daughter during a March 31, 2013, home invasion by two black men, one of whom was being sentenced for the crime in February.
Gregory Wallace, 27, had pleaded to the robbery, but Stevens declined to send him to prison, a decision he announced after a lengthy attack on the family whose home was robbed. The other home invader, who had a prior record, had already been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The judge was “deeply offended” at the portion of Jordan Gray’s victim impact statement where she described the effect the night of terror had on her daughter.
“This incident has had the most impact on my daughter,” Jordan Gray wrote. “She is in constant fear of black men. When we are running errands, if we come across a black male, she holds me tight and begs me to leave. If (she) is playing in a room and I walk into another, she freaks out. It has affected her friendships at school and our relationship with African American friends.”
That statement, one that the victim apparently volunteered in good faith, is seemingly meant to show dismay at the corrosive effect of violent crime – how it eats at the basic fabric of society beginning with even its youngest members.
Stevens didn’t take it that way. In fact he took it another way entirely – that the Grays are somehow to blame for the reactions of a pre-schooler whose short acquaintance with the world is based entirely on what she perceives.
Instead of being outraged at the criminal, Stevens vented at the victims.
“It troubles me greatly what this statement says,” he said at Wallace’s sentencing. “I would want to make that part of the record, I am offended by that.
“If the perpetrator had been white, would they be in fear of white men?” he asked.
“It’s not going to affect what happens here,” he said, but “I’m going to make this part of the record.”
He then sentenced a man who pleaded guilty to robbery – a robbery that involved breaking into a peaceful home and threatening a man, his wife and a young girl at gunpoint – to probation instead of prison. No matter what the legalities might say, that’s the same as freedom.
Stevens later went on Facebook to justify himself.
“Do three year olds form such generalized, stereotyped and racist opinions of others?” he wrote. “I think not. Perhaps the mother had attributed her own views to her child as a manner of sanitizing them.”
The victimized family and prosecutors were outraged by the judge’s remarks and sentencing, understandably, but legal experts and ethicists were critical too.
Actually he went to Morehouse and then to GW School of Law.
sorry to say this...
rope..
tar..
feathers..
until this happens with extreme regularity..
this issue will continue to happen..
make the bastards pay
Not really. My cousins wife is black and as consdrrvative as anybody here. Pro life, pro gun, pro freedom, pro God and the biggest supporter of the military I have perhaps ever known. And I come from a family where a very large percentage of us these past 3 generations are veterans. A wonderful lady who absolutely detests the gang banger and victim culture. I keep telling her she should run for POTUS. And I am serious. If you want to have an “open and honest discussion of race in America” she is the woman.
Yet another egregious example of judicial activism - playing the race card from the bench.
Black perps attack white family in their own home, black judge plays race card, perp walks, victims blamed.
Watch for this kind of sentiment to escalate...
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Our enemies in DC are no dummies. Notice the somewhat subdued reaction to the SC Carolina shooting? The public in general is becoming weary of the top-down race-baiting scenario of Trayvon and Ferguson. So, they sent out the clown Sharpton to keep their people hopping mad through the trial. The outcome of that event doesn't really matter. No matter what happens or doesn't happen, the planning for a long hot summer of violent demonstrations will contiunue
The case before Affirmative Action Anus 'Judge' Olu involved Black on White crime, which of course cannot be allowed to exist in LeftWorld.
That does explain everything.
Maybe he is trying to create a “buzz” for a chance at the daytime court tv shows for some fast ca$h
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