A Superior Court judge, who imposed a 30-day sentence on a Black teen from Nashua on a misdemeanor riot charge connected to last year’s Black Lives Matters protests, has vacated the sentence and ordered a new sentencing hearing because a co-defendant.
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MANCHESTER, NH – A Superior Court judge has taken under advisement a Black Nashua teen’s request to withdraw his guilty plea to a misdemeanor riot charge connected to last year’s Black Lives Matter protests because co-defendants sentenced so far, most of whom are White, received no jail time.
Antwan Stroud, 18, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor riot charge that resulted in a sentence of 30 days in jail. Had he known of the sentence outcomes of his co-defendants, he said he never would have agreed to plead guilty.
The irony is Stroud was protesting the racial inequalities in the justice system only to experience that same injustice as a racial minority himself, according to his defense attorney.
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It’s been a while since I’ve seen a Confederate flag flown from the back of a pickup truck. The last time it happened I managed to drive up alongside the F-150 – we were on a multi-lane state highway – long enough to see the driver had a young boy with him. I’m assuming it was his son.
His presence moved me more than the flag offended me – that the boy was learning such hate from his father appeared to be nearly intolerable abuse.
A generational abuse that persists to this day in far too many spaces – public and private – abuse perpetrated by Americans who feel that, as Isabel Wilkerson wrote in
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MANCHESTER, NH – Donna Brown, a Manchester criminal defense attorney, still remembers the first time she brought up racial discrimination in court.
She argued police had racially profiled her client, a Black woman, when they trailed her on the highway, apparently looking for a reason to pull her over. Eventually they did, after the troopers noticed the woman’s front light was out, a minor motor vehicle violation.
The prosecutor waved Brown’s concerns away.
“‘Racial profiling might be an issue in other places, like in big cities like New York or Baltimore, but it’s not a problem in New Hampshire,’” she recalls the prosecutor saying to her.