Well, that may well be true, but my point was we should proceed from facts,
not assumptions. And please don't forget the really erroneous assumption was
that made by the police. As you no doubt know very well, people make lots of
stupid mistakes that trigger more stupid police mistakes, except the police are
the ones with the badges, guns and cuffs. So the question is, even if someone
makes a "stupid" mistake, do you go after her for being stupid (and doing
nothing illegal), or the cops for making a bad bust (or worse)?
If I had a choice between criticizing a civilian for being naive vs a police
department and DA for getting the facts wrong, I wouldn't go after the civilian
first.
For all you know, she is Black and that is why they didn't believe her.
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Subject: RE: [UC] We're Paying This Loopy Bryn Mawr Student $180,000???
I think the point of the complexion remark was that had she been Black she
would still be incarcerated and we would not have heard her story. And as far
as income: if the cross section of gender and income are obvious, then it is
obvious that it is something that you don’t have to think about in your daily
life. As a AFAM woman I would have never taken a chance like that, that my life
might not have recovered and in addition have been rewarded for my own
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Subject: Fwd: [UC] We're Paying This Loopy Bryn Mawr Student $180,000??? At
the risk of taking a Ross message seriously when it's not:
1. Your city's police lab erroneously thought flour was coke, and has yet to
explain how they messed that up, which as I understand it is why she was held
that long in custody. Maybe the police chemist was the one who was stealing
drugs from the cops.
2. She's a Bryn Mawr student from California, which really tells you nothing
about how privileged she is, at least in conventional usage.
3. How did you figure out her complexion?
Paul
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Subject: Re: [UC] We're Paying This Loopy Bryn Mawr Student $180,000??? On
1/8/07, Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Remember when you had to be smart to
get into college? Well it's not just that. It's the idea of MY city
paying money we desperately need to some overprivileged Main Line floozyette
with an expensive lawyer who, had she been the wrong complexion, would now be
spending time in Gitmo for pulling a trick like that.
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