Posted on 12/25/2021 7:46:30 AM PST by grundle
OLYMPIA, WA – A convicted felon turned lawyer who later turned into a state legislator in Washington state recently drafted a bill that would lower sentencing for murderers who committed their crime via doing a drive-by shooting. And per the language of the bill, this is meant to promote “racial equity.”
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According to the Washington State Legislature online portal, House Bill 1692 was pre-filed on December 23rd, poising it to be considered during the 2022 legislative session. Said bill is sponsored by Democrat Representatives David Hackney and, most notably, 44-year-old Tarra Simmons, who’d previously been sentenced to 30 months in prison in 2011 for drug and theft convictions.
After Simmons served her time in prison, she attended law school, worked at an NPO for a couple of years, and then ran and got elected to the state legislature back in 2020. Rep. Simmons is unsurprisingly an advocate for criminal justice reform, specifically the soft-on-crime version of said activism.
And that soft-on-crime approach really shows itself with her sponsored bill, HB 1692.
According to the opening of the bill text, the proposed legislation aims to reduce the sentencing for murderers who killed their victim(s) during a drive-by shooting, claiming that doing so would help promote “racial equity.”
“AN ACT Relating to promoting racial equity in the criminal legal system by eliminating drive-by shooting as a basis for elevating murder in the first degree to aggravated murder in the first degree,” the bill states, “amending RCW 10.95.020 and 10.95.020; creating a new section; providing an effective date; and providing an expiration date.”
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It’s frankly unclear how Rep. Simmons arrived at the notion that lowering the sentence of murderers committed via drive-by shootings would somehow promote “racial equity,” that is, unless she’s tacitly implying that certain racial demographics are more prone to committing drive-by shootings.
But the rationale for treating drive-by shootings that result in death as an aggravated murder makes perfect sense, as there are no shortage of reports where drive-by shootings frequently result in innocent/unaffiliated parties being killed.
The difference between the sentencing guidelines for first-degree murder and aggravated first-degree murder are significant, as a first-degree murder conviction carries a “maximum of life without the possibility of parole,” meaning the murderer can obtain a more lenient sentence. Whereas with aggravated first-degree murder, it is a mandatory life sentence without parole.
yeah, that’l work..
Agree.
Lower the sentence from years in prison to a minute or two facing a firing squad.
no mother in America should have to worry that her child might be arrested for a drive-by shooting
“soft-on-crime approach” is woke code-speak for “pro-crime”.
The lawmaker is itching for personal extermination.
Racial equity does not mean blacks get to act the fool without consequences.
HOW does a convicted felon qualify to even run for any political office???
btt
The reason for racial inequality is racial inequality
I didn’t know that anyone was even arrested or prosecuted for drive-by shootings.
Unless they were white, of course.
Since blacks are the most likely victims of drive by shootings, isn’t this legislator just saying that black lives don’t matter all that much? After a quick calculation I figure that this proposed law says they only matter 60% as much as a white victim.< /s>
Th3 fox said “lemme watch over the chicken coop, I will do a good job I promise. I’m reformed dontchaknow?” and the idiot farmer said “OK. You sound sincere”
Yes lower it 99 years
Genius! That is just what we need in the midst of the largest increase in violent crime in our nation’s history. /s
Rules for radicals of course
What’s it take to get a federal license to own (and operate) a fully automatic fire-arm type device?
Asking for a friend ...
HOW does a convicted felon qualify to even run for any political office???
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They have woke pro-crime constituents and it is Washington State after all
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