When someone accuses a person in public of something heinous, like being a racist or a pedophile, they'd better have some evidence to back up the accusation, and if they don't, we should make them pay a price.
Ms. Bazelon insinuates that Mr. Cannizzaro had racist motives, as he invoked the habitual offender law "more than 3,000 times, o…
When someone accuses a person in public of something heinous, like being a racist or a pedophile, they'd better have some evidence to back up the accusation, and if they don't, we should make them pay a price.
Ms. Bazelon insinuates that Mr. Cannizzaro had racist motives, as he invoked the habitual offender law "more than 3,000 times, overwhelmingly against Black people, many of them teenagers."
The detail that Ms. Bazelon omits is that crime in New Orleans, especially violent crimes like murder, assault and car-jacking are overwhelmingly perpetrated by young black men, many of them teenagers. And everyone who lives in our city knows it.
Mrs. Bazelon is therefore a mendacious liar who owes Mr. Cannizzaro a public apology.
When someone accuses a person in public of something heinous, like being a racist or a pedophile, they'd better have some evidence to back up the accusation, and if they don't, we should make them pay a price.
Ms. Bazelon insinuates that Mr. Cannizzaro had racist motives, as he invoked the habitual offender law "more than 3,000 times, overwhelmingly against Black people, many of them teenagers."
The detail that Ms. Bazelon omits is that crime in New Orleans, especially violent crimes like murder, assault and car-jacking are overwhelmingly perpetrated by young black men, many of them teenagers. And everyone who lives in our city knows it.
Mrs. Bazelon is therefore a mendacious liar who owes Mr. Cannizzaro a public apology.
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