WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 8
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Snapshots, September 27 - October 3 BLACK FIRST OFFENDERS TARGETED IN CONNECTICUT
U.S. Border Patrol Agent on horseback whipping a UNE
uneven Connecticut justice
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), stalemate source
Democrat Stalemate Continues The Democratic impasse in Congress over President Biden's proposed $3.5 trillion in infrastructure spending over the next 10 years continued, seemingly without resolution. Though progressives are resolved to keep the social safety net in the bill, the real roadblock is in the Senate, where two Democrats - Joe Manchin (WV) and more notably Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) - refuse to budge in their opposition to the price tag. Most puzzling is Sinema, previously a champion for progressive causes, who seems unmoved to help the most vulnerable, or even to negotiate the price tag. Speculation surrounds her cozy relationship with her mega-rich campaign donors, who despise tax increases.
Hispanic and Black defendants accused of a crime with no prior criminal history were convicted at rates 5% and 6% higher, respectively, than white defendants without any criminal history in 2019 across Connecticut — confirming data that previously highlighted racial discrepancies in the justice system, a new analysis shows. But the first-of-its-kind data analysis of case dispositions throughout Connecticut courthouses also found that defendants with prior convictions had almost identical rates of conviction, regardless of race. It is the first time analysts have been able to pair criminal history with case dispositions, and they found greater racial disparities typically occur in the judicial system when defendants of color enter the system for the first time. LINK: https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hcnews-prosecutor-data-analysis-20211003cavvdtsy7zafvicqf36uo34phestory.html#nt=latestnews&rt=chartbeat-flt
Black Georgia Woman Stages KKK False Flag Terresha Lucas, 30, is accused of pretending to be a white male member of the Ku Klux Klan and placing notes in the mailboxes of residents in the Brookmont neighborhood of Douglasville on at least six occasions, saying she would burn down their homes and kill them, per a statement by the local police department published September 30y.