Snoop Dogg, like so many others, is in activist mode following the police killing of 46-year-old George Floyd last month. With the spotlight firmly on police brutality and racial injustice, the West Coast gangsta rap vet is using his massive platform to highlight the Florida court system.
On Monday (June 8), the inimitable Doggfather shared a meme that read, “Same crime, same courtroom, same judge, same day, different results.”
Below the text were two photos — one of a 19-year-old white man named Chase Legleitner and another of a 21-year-old black man named Lamar Lloyd. Despite having committed an identical crime, Legleitner received two years in county jail while Lloyd received 26 years.
Snoop wrote in the caption, “Justice for y’all. Thought it was justice for all.” He included an emoji of a person throwing their hands in the air alongside the American flag emoji.
But according to Snopes, there were some additional details that weren’t reflected in the meme. The claim reads, “Florida 19th Judicial Circuit judge Sherwood ‘Chip’ Bauer gave a black man 26 years in prison and a white man two years’ time served, for the same crime, in the same circumstances.”
The Snopes article refutes the notion, stating, “The race of the defendant was not the only relevant difference between the two cases.”
The Legleitner and Lloyd cases were first brought to light in 2016 by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune as part of a series titled “Bias on the Bench,” which focused on racial disparities in sentencing by Florida judges. Florida’s 12th Judicial Circuit Court passionately disputed many of the claims made against Bauer in a lengthy rebuttal.
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Ultimately, it was Bauer’s decision. In July 2010, he sentenced Lloyd to 13 years in state prison on each of two counts, yielding a sentence of 26 years while in June 2011, Bauer invoked a “mitigated departure” from the minimum sentence calculated from Legleitner’s sentence points and gave him time already served of 722 days.
While the basic facts of the meme are true, the sentences were handed down a year apart — not on the same day — and the meme didn’t explain Legleitner spent no time in prison after his conviction because he was given a sentence equal to time already served in jail.
Well kids, the protests and riots are over, and the violence and riots overshadowed the message of unity and peace as we all knew it would. All of these voices hijacked a legitimate platform and drown out the message of police being held to the same standard of normal US citizens. Now we have morons like Snoop talking about defunding the police and the idiots in Minn talking about defunding the police. The “Defund the Police” idea is all trump needs to make lemonade out of lemons. Murder and violent crimes will skyrocket in these cities, and the “alternative for policing” will be caught committing crimes. The BLM movement will do exactly what it did last election. Get Trump elected. If you accept reality, it hurts less. Enjoy the shit show you were manipulated into America.
Protests are not riots you dimwit. They are not one and the same. Defunding just means less militarization. Which is great because they don’t need tanks, guy. Trumpitos approval is abysmal amidst his response to the pandemic and his insistence on supporting white supremacy. If he somehow manages to get reelected this year, its due to the power and persistence of American ignorance. And that’s kinda the point isn’t it?
This is a strawman argument. Also the original one before Trump was elected. So basically what you’re saying is everyone needs to vote for your candidate (Biden), or they are ignorant racists? Maybe you should look up things that Biden has actually said that is racist, or how he wrote the 94 Crime Bill that Bill Clinton passed. Just say you want Marxism so we don’t have to have these conversations.
You’re absolutely correct. Both trump and Biden are racist and so are both parties. What’s your point
Defunding means MORE militarization, dimwit. You’re the same cuck white huh always defending drake and chiming in with your corny ass opinions. Shut your backpacker ass up. You live in Wisconsin or some shit. When someone says the protests AND riots are over it is implicit that they are not one and the same. Learn how to read, lame ass.
Finally a smart person. Anyone who liked Good luck’s comment is just thinking like the herd and are themselves part of the problem. They fear something they don’t understand and are too lazy to take the time to find out what the issue really is. But hey, if you’re truly petty and empty inside, what’s the point of saving a loss cause who takes enjoyment in being their lowest self behind a computer, and fake to everybody else and person. Good Luck.
When they made the computer it was a light year leap for masked cowards
Snoop must be smoking more than usual today
Didnt he get off murder charges? Why didnt the racist ststem lock him up 4 life?
I don’t need to read this article to know that the meme isn’t 100% accurate. There’s more to the story, and I’m not going to let an ex felon like snoop dogg make up my mind for me
Does either person have priors? It failed to explain that as well