“It’s not going to affect what happens here,” he said, but “I’m going to make this part of the record.”
Yeah, because people who robbed and terrorize a family at gun point for a “lengthy attack” routinely get probation. Especially when the co-perp got 10 years (presumably by another judge). /sarc.
“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.
#1 The judge has no way of knowing what is in this woman’s heart. Even if his assumption is correct (which I doubt), it’s entirely irrelevant to the crime. This woman could be the Grand Keagle of the KKK Auxillary, and she would still be a victim of a vicious and violent crime.
#2 It’s very easy to see how a traumatized 3-year old might associate all black people with the actions of these two scumbags. All she knows is that a person who looks a certain way tried to hurt her, and her mommy and daddy. My oldest niece was terrified of any movie from Tri-Star pictures as a little kid. She inadvertently saw a scary movie from them at some point, and thereafter whenever she say the “charging pegasus” logo come on the screen, she’d run and hide behind a chair or into the next room.
This judge is a bonehead, and his decision needs to be overturned (if that’s possible).
Right, the judge is going to sit in judgment of the reaction of a THREE YEAR OLD to a home invasion. Maybe he thinks the 3 year old is a member of the Tea Party. Stupid knee jerk racist idiot.
“Do three year olds form such generalized, stereotyped and racist opinions of others?”
I don’t know about 3 year olds, but apparently people the judges age do.