Posted on 06/09/2020 1:10:29 AM PDT by knighthawk
Criminal justice reform advocate Alice Marie Johnson, who was released from federal prison in June 2018 after her life sentence was commuted by President Trump, spoke out Monday against calls to defund the police, telling "Hannity" that officers don't deserve to be labeled negatively "the same way I didn't want a label put on me as a bad person."
"I have had family members who are police officers," Johnson told host Sean Hannity, "and I know that they don't want that label put on them the same way I didn't want a label put on me as a bad person. I made a mistake, my first ever, [and] I was marked for dead."
The Tennessee great-grandmother, who was sentenced in 1997 to life in prison without parole after being convicted of drug conspiracy and money laundering, has become the face of the Trump administration's criminal justice reform initiative.
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I know reform is needed but not on liberal leftist terms. Today I rolled down my window and thanked an LAPD officer for keeping us safe. And that “please know how appreciated you are.”
She is amazing. I hope she speaks on behalf of Trump at the RNC convention.
She just doesn’t think is is a good idea? One of the stupidest ideas ever espoused!
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