Posted on 04/14/2015 11:05:23 AM PDT by RonPaulLives
Outrage is growing over a Kentucky judge who let a home invader who robbed a family at gunpoint off with probation after openly criticizing the victims for letting their child be afraid of black men because of the crime.
Judge Olu Stevens of the Jefferson Circuit Court appeared even more offended by the victim impact statements offered by the family who was robbed than he was by the fact that a crime had been committed at all.
Now, a movement is afoot to have the judge removed from office.
According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, Jordan and Tommy Gray were held at gunpoint with their then 3-year-old daughter during a March 31, 2013, home invasion by two black men, one of whom was being sentenced for the crime in February.
Gregory Wallace, 27, had pleaded to the robbery, but Stevens declined to send him to prison, a decision he announced after a lengthy attack on the family whose home was robbed. The other home invader, who had a prior record, had already been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The judge was deeply offended at the portion of Jordan Grays victim impact statement where she described the effect the night of terror had on her daughter.
This incident has had the most impact on my daughter, Jordan Gray wrote. She is in constant fear of black men. When we are running errands, if we come across a black male, she holds me tight and begs me to leave. If (she) is playing in a room and I walk into another, she freaks out. It has affected her friendships at school and our relationship with African American friends.
That statement, one that the victim apparently volunteered in good faith, is seemingly meant to show dismay at the corrosive effect of violent crime how it eats at the basic fabric of society beginning with even its youngest members.
Stevens didnt take it that way. In fact he took it another way entirely that the Grays are somehow to blame for the reactions of a pre-schooler whose short acquaintance with the world is based entirely on what she perceives.
Instead of being outraged at the criminal, Stevens vented at the victims.
It troubles me greatly what this statement says, he said at Wallaces sentencing. I would want to make that part of the record, I am offended by that.
If the perpetrator had been white, would they be in fear of white men? he asked.
Its not going to affect what happens here, he said, but Im going to make this part of the record.
He then sentenced a man who pleaded guilty to robbery a robbery that involved breaking into a peaceful home and threatening a man, his wife and a young girl at gunpoint to probation instead of prison. No matter what the legalities might say, thats the same as freedom.
Stevens later went on Facebook to justify himself.
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.
The victimized family and prosecutors were outraged by the judges remarks and sentencing, understandably, but legal experts and ethicists were critical too.
(it's unlikely that judges have lower IQs than lawyers in general, in fact I can't see how that would be possible)
Just as I said. The left wants the “oppressed” to waltz right in and take what is “rightfully” theirs from those evil “oppressor” Whites.
a few years ago in Chicago a little five yo girl was gang raped by several black men...
The judge agreed that it was possible the girl had invited the rapes by teasing the men sexually in some way until they couldnt help themselves and they all got off...
Yeah five yo girls will do that...
He got his law degree from the back of a Mad Magazine... send $1 to Mail Order University for degrees in law, medicine, architecture and more. Free frame included..
Jeez, I wonder why...
the most common kind
And H8YT IS the “most common kind” of racism found in today’s America. Not even on a ratio basis, but on pure numbers.
What does Olu mean in African, ‘Moronic Racist Judge’?
He looks like he is gay...
WTF..? 5 yo girls can make guys rape them.... how... pole dancing on Jerry Springer?
and the utterly disgusting Judge Olu Stevens Support Group
If this fine outstanding citizen kills someone, is this judge going to be held responsible?
Back in the day, they stayed in their section of town, viz. the west end. And if you were white, etc.
My favorite place was Fontaine Ferry park. It was a great place to play in the 1950s. Then they had to close it in the 1960s because of the gang violence against white people. Interestingly enough, in the fifties it was whites only. Then in the sixties they allowed blacks. Shortly after that, they were forced to close the park. Gee. I wonder why?
That judge is doing what all those pimps do, which is to pander to the poor, murderous, oppressed black man.
Sending a *ping* to those who were on the original thread that was removed by the moderators overnight.
Just by walking down the street home from school I guess...
PC is to destroy Wisdom/Knowledge and used to insert lies and evil ideologies into children. (There is no Truth/God allowed/Stalin’s Constitution).
PC is essential to create people who can’t use Reason and Logic and why it is forced on little children (Heather has two mommies). It is used intentionally (cultural Marxism) to create “useful idiots” who “feel” what is Good and Evil. It destroys the ability to use critical thinking skills because all information is lies and omission of Truth/God in their indoctrination systems (public schools).
PC destroys all the intellectual development of Western Civilization (Christian Ethics/Classical Education/Wisdom/Bible) which created the Age of Reason and the most profound, free cultures in the history of man and Modern Science.
Wittgenstein: Without Words/Language, there is no ability to think.
Children have their heads filled with mush-—no John Milton—no Adam Smith, no John Locke-—just Marxist garbage of utopia, one world religions—irrational cr*p so they are devoid of Truth/God and Reason.
After notice and hearing, the judicial conduct commission may admonish, reprimand, censure, suspend, retire, or remove a judge. The commission's decisions are subject to review by the supreme court.
Judges may be impeached by the KY House of Representatives and convicted by a two-thirds vote of the KY Senate.
I would urge those of you in Kentucky to contact your state representatives and your state senators to get the ball rolling on this.
Urge Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear to include this on any Special Session he may call.
Remove him. Then dis-bar him.
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And are those men dead yet, do you know?
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