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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,999 posts)
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 08:36 PM Jun 2019

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

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A 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.

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 Charlotte Observer.

Cureton also ordered Westwood to actively participate 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.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-woman-wont-go-to-jail-for-yelling-insults-at-black-neighbors-in-charlotte/ar-AACrZ7D?li=BBnbcA1

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White woman won't go to jail for yelling insults at black neighbors in Charlotte (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2019 OP
These people are never going to have a disincentive to behave the way they do unless they Aristus Jun 2019 #1
Honestly in prison she'd probably just get worse. NutmegYankee Jun 2019 #2
Sloppy drunk AND racist Haggis for Breakfast Jun 2019 #3

Aristus

(66,380 posts)
1. These people are never going to have a disincentive to behave the way they do unless they
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 08:39 PM
Jun 2019

are slapped with sanctions so draconian, they don't even want to go on living.

One year of unsupervised probation? May as well have given her a medal and a parade for her vile behavior...

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)
2. Honestly in prison she'd probably just get worse.
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 08:46 PM
Jun 2019

She’d no doubt cozy up to the white supremacists. At least here she is forced into counseling on both substance abuse and racism.

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