New York Judge Invokes Offensive Response To #BlackLivesMatter

New York Judge Rips Defendant And Invokes Offensive Response To #BlackLivesMatter

We already know that the true meaning of the #BlackLivesMatter movement is completely lost on many white people, and sadly, lots of black folks as well. But when you hear the offensive and all-too-familiar retort “what about black-on-black crime?” spouted by a person who has allegedly dedicated themselves to fairness, impartiality and justice, it’s a lil’ bit harder to stomach.

Enter Justice Edward McLaughlin.

Via NYPost

A Manhattan judge on Tuesday lashed into a Harlem man convicted of attempted murder — telling him that “black lives don’t matter to black people with guns” before tossing him in prison for 24 to 26 years.

“Black lives matter,” Justice Edward McLaughlin told defendant Tareek Arnold, 24, as he sentenced him in Manhattan Supreme Court.

“I have heard it, I know it, but the sad fact is in this courtroom, so often what happens is manifestations of the fact that black lives don’t matter to black people with guns.”

Arnold, who is black, shot rival Jamal McCaskill, also black, four times at close range in the summer of 2015. He also has a prior gun possession conviction.

This sounds like the type of Judge that Faux News would LOVE to have on the air every night.

SMFH.

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