First Black Secret Service agent on presidential detail among pardoned

[Ohio Joe]

President Biden on Tuesday pardoned three people, including the first Black Secret Service agent on a presidential detail, and commuted the sentences of 75 nonviolent drug offenders amid calls from criminal justice advocates for more leniency in a system that has disproportionately harmed people of color.

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Among those pardoned was Abraham Bolden Sr., who was the first Black person on a presidential Secret Service detail, serving during John F. Kennedy’s presidency. In 1964, Bolden was charged with offenses for trying to sell a copy of a Secret Service file. His first trial ended in a hung jury; he was convicted at a second trial, although later key witnesses against him admitted to lying at the request of the prosecutor. He served several years in federal custody.

Bolden, 87, of Chicago has consistently maintained his innocence and argued that he was a target because he exposed the racism prevalent in the 1960s in the Secret Service. Since then, he has been praised for challenging racial injustice and for other community service contributions since his release from prison.

Biden also pardoned Betty Jo Bogans, 51, of Houston. Bogans was convicted in 1998 of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine after trying to transport drugs for her boyfriend and his accomplice, neither of whom were detained or arrested.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/first-black-secret-service-agent-on-presidential-detail-among-pardoned/ar-AAWChbZ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=db39ea8164d047ec98ce9e78cd68f550

And not a single crony among them... Only justice.

[uponit7771]

1. "he exposed the racism prevalent in the 1960s in the Secret Service" 😲😲😲. I have a vision ...

... of too many in the "Deep State" still leaning this way and because MAGA projection is so precise.

[Ohio Joe]

2. I agree 100% - nt

[usaf-vet]

6. I think the Pence reporting of him refusing to be evacuated on 1/6. Might suggest the secret....

...service might possibly have agents with particular political leanings.

After all TFG secret service team spent nearly a year (out of 4 years) in Florida at a golf resort covering the POTUS. Not bad duty if you can get it.

And I believe President Biden wants his VP team to cover him. I assume because he knows and trusts them.

[jaxexpat]

7. Racism is alive and well. Its hosts have adapted. Organisms tend to, when threatened by parasitism.

Parasitic racism has rigged the "conservative" movement. The afflicted individuals I have known live in a peculiar but genuine and panicky sort fear that they will accidently blurt out the "N" word. They seem to figure that if they don't cross THAT line, they can be and do what their on-board morality scrambler directs them toward, with support from Fox and talk radio.

[pandr32]

3. That comment by you at the end--spot on!

[calimary]

5. Indeed!

President Biden doesn’t do cronyism.

[wryter2000]

4. I'd heard about the Secret Service agent

and about the racism he faced. I didn't know he was convicted of a crime. How awful.

[live love laugh]

8. How many presidents let him waste his life in jail?

A fucking shame.

[Boomerproud]

9. Yes, where were Carter, Clinton and Obama?

I have read his book.

[BlackSkimmer]

12. Good question, but I assume they know more than we do.

[Demovictory9]

10. K&R

[wanda4rafi]

11. Bolden exposed the plot in Chicago to assassinate JFK.

It was basically the same blueprint, with an exc-marine patsy, as the Dallas plot. Four Cubans were sought after being reported by their landlady to have rifles with scopes in their room. Two were arrested but let go later.