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TexasTowelie

(116,926 posts) Thu Jun 6, 2019, 05:00 AM Jun 2019

White woman won't go to jail for yelling insults at black neighbors in south Charlotte

A south Charlotte woman whose racist rant at two black women was filmed on video that went viral was sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation and no jail time on Wednesday.

Susan Westwood was sentenced after pleading guilty to misuse of the 911 system and two counts of simple assault, according to Meghan McDonald, spokeswoman for the Mecklenburg County District Attorney’ Office.

The charges and her lack of a criminal record did not make Westwood eligible for jail time, McDonald said.

Judge Donald Cureton also ordered the 52-year-old Westwood to pay court costs, keep attending “community support” meetings and “any after-care alcohol programs recommended as a result of her substance abuse assessment,” McDonald said in an email to the Observer.

Read more: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article231212233.html

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White woman won't go to jail for yelling insults at black neighbors in south Charlotte (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2019 OP

A just sentence Loki Liesmith Jun 2019 #1

Cureton also ordered Westwood to actively participate Kind of Blue Jun 2019 #2

Fair enough. The educational aspects are the more important goal than jailing. marble falls Jun 2019 #3

If she had yelled "Fire!" in a crowded theater, it would've ended differently. CaptYossarian Jun 2019 #4

Loki Liesmith

(4,602 posts)

1. A just sentence

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Jun 6, 2019, 05:54 AM

Jun 2019

Jail would not be appropriate.

Kind of Blue

(8,709 posts)

2. Cureton also ordered Westwood to actively participate

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Jun 6, 2019, 06:58 AM

Jun 2019

in meetings of the White People Caucus. The group, created by Organizing Against Racism, encourages white participants to “examine and deconstruct their internalized racial superiority,” according to the Organizing Against Racism website.

The judge also ordered Westwood to attend an October conference hosted by Race Matters for Juvenile Justice and to not contact the victims unless in a “therapeutic or legal setting,” according to his ruling.

Wow, that's a lot of woke conversion therapy. Can only hope Westwood comes out of them a changed person and spreads the good news.

marble falls

(62,249 posts)

3. Fair enough. The educational aspects are the more important goal than jailing.

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Thu Jun 6, 2019, 08:47 AM

Jun 2019

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)

4. If she had yelled "Fire!" in a crowded theater, it would've ended differently.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Jun 6, 2019, 11:59 AM

Jun 2019

But being in the Bible Belt, you can be an overt racist and nobody blinks an eye. I would personally jail and sterilize all racists, sexists and homophobes. That's the only way they'll disappear off the face of the Earth.

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