On July 7, Black Lives Matter activist Jasmine Richards was found guilty of “lynching," which is defined as “attempting to unlawfully remove a suspect from police offers.”
Richards was arrested last summer after attempting to interfere with the arrest of a woman who had avoided paying her bill at a restaurant. Richards, along with other Black Lives Matter activists, assumed that a white storeowner was unfairly treating the black woman. As MRCTV previously reported:
To keep from agitating the BLM group, officers waited about half an hour until Escoe had left the park before detaining her. At that time, protesters intervened and tried to prevent the arrest. (Because obviously, when any white cop is arresting a black woman, the cop is obviously committing a hate crime.)
Not surprisingly, these Black Lives Matter birdbrains made that assumption because according to them, all white people are the spawn of Satan.
Richards has been sentenced to 90 days in jail, of which the court gave credit for the 18 days she previously served. She will also have to attend anger management classes.
If you ask me, they should have sentenced her to the highest punishment possible, which is four years under California law. Does the judge really think that 78 days in jail and anger management classes will teach this girl a lesson? Black Lives Matter supporters are relentless extremists.
But there are 84,000 people who disagree with my opinion on her sentencing. A petition posted on colorofchange.org called upon Judge Lu to free Richards of her “lynching” charges solely based on the fact that Richards is black.
The letter states:
Dear Judge Lu,
I am writing you to ask that you not sentence Black Lives Matter activist, Jasmine 'Abdullah' Richards, to any jail time for the preposterous 'attempted lynching' she has been convicted of.
As you know, the law that Jasmine was convicted under was created to protect Black people from race-based mob violence at the height of America's lynching epidemic. It is incredibly insulting to Pasadena's Black communities and all people of conscience to use this law to incarcerate a non-violent Black political activist.
As a Judge, you are sworn to uphold the constitution including our rights to peaceful assembly and free speech. Regardless, of how you may feel about the cause of police accountability, imprisoning Jasmine for what happened at the Peace March she organized in 2015 would set a dangerous precedent and only exacerbate the lack of confidence Black communities have in the criminal justice system.
Please do not allow your courtroom to be used as a tool of intimidation and retaliation. Refuse to sentence Jasmine to jail time.
Live footage of Richards arrest is available for viewing and you can tell me if you still think she is a “non-violent Black political activist.”