Posted on 09/18/2024 4:37:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Kamala Harris' recent boasts about her tough-on-crime record as California Attorney General have brought back into the spotlight her arrest and prosecution of single black mother Cheree Peoples in 2013, a tragedy I recount in my new short documentary, Arrested by Kamala: A Black Mother's Story.
There is a three minutes only version of the interview on You Tube as well, Arrested by Kamala.
The story is also told in a riveting rap song of the same name: Arrested by Kamala.
In no small part, Harris ascended to power on the backs of minority women, women like Cheree Peoples, a victim of Harris’s crackdown on truancy. At the time, Harris was not shy about explaining the rationale for the crackdown.
California schools are funded according to average daily attendance, at the time about $30 per student per day. Harris, whose supporters included teachers’ unions, spoke openly about the need to increase school attendance in order to obtain more money from the state and federal governments.
In addressing this issue, Kamala once declared on camera, “I want money!”
Harris instituted a program in San Francisco beginning in 2007 to threaten parents with arrest and a year in jail if their children missed school. When she became California State Attorney General in 2010, Harris took her “arrest the parents” program statewide. She openly laughed on camera about mailing parents letters that threatened jail time, and boasted about sending her most vicious prosecutors from gang and homicide units to intimidate and prosecute parents who had been arrested.
Cheree Peoples paid little attention when the crackdown was announced. Although her daughter Shayla missed considerable school time, Shayla was handicapped. She was born with the debilitating disease Sickle Cell Anemia. She spent many painful days in the hospital receiving blood transfusions and frequent emergency medical...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The MSM will never cover this or any of Kamala’s other abuses of power that show how evil she is.
https://x.com/i/status/1836220574835622035
Interview with arrested Mother.
BTTT
Your wonderful Kamala....
That’s just horrible. That poor mother and child.
I know, it is a horrible story.
Just heard the interview tonight.
This parent’s treatment was cruel and disgusting.
I’m not sure we are going continue as a country. Too many in control have dumped morality.
Ain’t gonna work.
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