Posted on 12/11/2017 5:35:50 AM PST by grundle
In January of this year in Chicago, two black men and two black women kidnapped a learning disabled white man, imprisoned him, tortured him, cut off part of his scalp, forced him to drink from the toilet, demanded ransom from his parents, and posted part of the torture as a video on Facebook. They also called him racial slurs, which puts this into the hate crime category.
Well, one of these scumbags has just been sentenced to probation instead of prison, after spending less than one year in jail. Her name is Brittany Covington. (The other three scumbags – Tesfaye Cooper, Jordan Hill, Tanishia Covington – are still awaiting sentencing.)
Given the horrific kidnapping, imprisonment, violence, and torture that they committed, I think all four of these scumbags should be forced to spend at least several decades in prison.
The fact that Brittany Covington was sentenced to probation instead of prison is inexcusable.
The judge responsible for giving probation instead of a prison sentence to this violent scumbag is Cook County Circuit Judge William Hooks.
Judge Hooks said he could have given her a prison sentence, but chose not to because “I’m not sure if I did that you’d be coming out any better.”
Although prison is referred to as a “correctional facility,” that is not the only reason that we put people who are convicted of violent crimes in prison. We also do it to protect the innocent, as well as to send a message to the guilty that their violent behavior is not to be tolerated.
Judge Hooks is a bigger scumbag than the four scumbags who kidnapped and tortured the learning disabled man.
By not sentencing Brittany Covington to prison, Judge Hooks is giving his approval to what Brittany Covington did. He is saying that what she did is OK. He is saying that what she did is acceptable.
But in the real world, what Brittany Covington did is not OK.
It is not acceptable.
Shame on Judge Hooks.
Judge is black. If the racial roles were reversed, the honkey perps would be UNDER the jail! Lamp post time? Or tar and feathers?
>>kidnapped a learning disabled white man, imprisoned him, tortured him, cut off part of his scalp, forced him to drink from the toilet, demanded ransom from his parents, and posted part of the torture as a video on Facebook.
>>They also called him racial slurs, which puts this into the hate crime category.
So imprisonment, torture, etc is “kinda bad” but racial slurs is what makes it “really bad”?
I hate what my country has become.
Now that there is a guy nuanced on the criminal justice system! The point of prison is not to make you better, but to punish you for what you have been convicted of! It's up to the inmate to be any better or worse as a result. Society really isn't interested in prison bettering anyone.
The judge is fundamentally uninformed about the nature of our judicial system. It is not based on the rules of social work. It is based on the rules of justice and equal treatment under the law.
http://www.muslimbar.org/muslimlawyers/2012/12/honorable-william-h-hooks-biography.html
Hope he gets his 15 mins of fame in the same way!
I expect this sort of kidnappings and torture will become a regular feature of Cook County now that the prospective perps understand that it will be no more than an inconvenience for them to be brought to “justice.” After this first run, that year in jail awaiting trial and sentencing can probably be dispensed with and perhaps it can all be reduced to writing tickets for the miscreants.
Sounds like a job for a federal civil rights lawsuit.
That is the exact truth AND the Feds would be joining for a Civil Rights case.
If any good people are still in Chicago, they would remove this pos posing as judge, one way or another.
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