In June of 2020, family and friends of Hannah Fizer, 25, were shocked to learn that their beloved daughter and friend had been killed during a stop over an alleged speeding violation. Then, four months later, they learned there would be no justice and the officer who killed the unarmed woman as she sat in her vehicle—was back on the job. Since then, Fizer’s father, John Fizer, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Pettis County seeking damages against Pettis County Deputy Jordan Schutte. The lawsuit argues the shooting was an unjustified, an excessive use of force and that Schutte did not...
Parole
At Least 61,000 Nationwide Are in Prison for Minor Parole Violations
But the number is probably far higher, Marshall Project survey shows. Among the millions of people incarcerated in the United States, a significant portion have long been thought to be parole violators, those who were returned to prison not for committing a crime but for failing to follow rules: missing an appointment with a parole officer, failing a urine test, or staying out past curfew. But their actual number has been elusive, in part because they are held for relatively short stints, from a few months to a year, not long enough for record keepers to get a good count. To help fill the...
Unfair!
Via FFF today, the Post has two stories today about the merciless cruelty of the U.S. Department of Justice: Innocent people doing life-without-parole sentences for not-even drug crimes like fixing a smuggler's truck or dating a methamphetamine businessman. Obama and his government have granted clemency to a few, but only enough to highlight all those innocents abandoned to their cells over victimless offenses against the state, their single chance at a life stolen away by scum not fit to clean their toilets. Somebody write a national anthem about...