sentence for killing his own son for Jaywalking U.S. is indifferent to the cost of poverty
I love cooking and I loved it when a friend asks for bread from my favorite food. In search of my "secret ingredient" that drove the grocery store from the comfort of air conditioning in my car, concentrate on my work, not a thought that is a luxury to have several grocery stories in my environment, group work vehicles can take me in stores, and disposable income to spend on basic necessities of life and wants to years. Like most middle class Americans, a trip to the grocery store is a mission for granted. However, there is a story, like that of Rachel Nelson, deeply humbled and problems of my soul, I said that poverty in the U.S. means a particular brand of persecution. Instead of waging war against poverty, we are conducting a war against the poor.
Nelson was convicted of vehicular homicide for the death of his son, although it does not own a car. His conviction is more time in prison than the person who struck and killed his four-year-old son. Nelson, who took two buses to Wal-Mart shopping, tried to cross the street with their three children to the bus stop, located on the opposite side of the road from his house. The stop is located on a busy street in Atlanta, a five-lane highway, without the marked passages, and the housing complex where he lived through this dangerous intersection.
The driver, who admitted being under the influence of alcohol and drugs for pain, and partially blind in one eye, pleaded guilty to one count of hit and run. He has already served his sentence of six months, despite his third hit and run conviction. The mother, Nelson, whose son died at the age of four, was convicted of vehicular homicide to "cross the street in a crosswalk" and "careless driving" an offense for which there a prison sentence of three years.
I'm still trying to figure this conviction and the crime that the jury believed he committed. How we are guilty of manslaughter without a car? Why the victim game against a more severe sanction than the driver convicted? Why is it not safe passages in front of a residential complex? Why traffic complaints from other tenants of these apartments ignored? Why not lower the speed limit in this area? Why design a city and a transportation system hostile to those who need it most? Why pursue the poor for the simple fact of being poor?
Because I think the jury found Nelson, for the crime of being poor in this country - the crime of not being able to afford a car, the crime of having to take two buses to buy food, the crime of living in an apartment complex located on a busy road, the crime of being reminded that while many of us live in relative luxury, others risk their lives for basic needs. This quote from the support group, transportation to the United States, sums up the true extent of crime Nelson:
"Nelson, 30 and African-American, was convicted on the charge this week for the six jurors who were not their peers: they were all white, middle class, and none had took a bus in the. metropolitan Atlanta In other words, he had never been in the place of Nelson: two buses for shopping at Wal-Mart, with three children in tow has never lost a transfer way home. I have to wait an hour and a half with children tired and hungry for the next bus. has never been rented to a bus stop a five-lane highway, with his flat to see the road, and were asked to drag a small three-Plus extra mile on the road to the nearest traffic signal and back to finally get home . "
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