He sounds like a scumbag who cleaned up nice for the picture in the article.
Gangs should have been treated like terrorists from day one.
Read the article. This sounds like extreme injustice. And while CA is emptying its prisons of real criminals due to lack of space, they’re going after people who have done nothing and are trying to make a decent life for themselves.
Maybe, but this is a terrible precedent. It will be misused against the politically inconvenient.
>>>He sounds like a scumbag who cleaned up nice for the picture in the article.<<<
Uh he didn’t even live near the gang anymore. He had no criminal record. And from the info presented in the article, the man was busy trying to get a legit career started.
His charge was a crime for being in a gang. At best if the state is correct, he is a former gang member who has turned his back on his former life. At worst, he’s just a guy from the hood who knew gang members. Should we start to jail the tens of thousands of gang members and possibly the hundreds of thousands of men who might be friends with them?
It’s embarrassing to come to FR and see wingnut comments like this so frequently. And FWIW, the presumption of innocence is something I’ll extend to this man since the circumstances of his arrest are so damn weak. If the state can prove something more substantial so be it. I won’t judge him guilty now.
Yeah, the kid sounds like a real "scumbag" / sarc. Did you even bother to read the article? From the linked article:
To Harvey and his parents, Aaron’s inclusion in the gang database paints a wildly misleading picture of their family. Once people hear “gang member,” they won’t see that Aaron comes from a two-parent family, that Kelly, his mother, and Dwayne, his father, have been married for about 30 years. They won’t see that Aaron finished high school and attended college at Washburn University on a football scholarship until one too many shoulder injuries forced him off the team (“He washed out of Washburn,” Dwayne says with a chuckle). They won’t see that Aaron’s grandparents moved to Lincoln Park in the 1950s, establishing a legacy in the neighborhood that the family is proud of.