☕ Morning fam,
Gotta talk about St. Louis. Lamar Johnson is free after serving 20+ years for a crime he didn’t commit. While this is good news and finally a win for progressives after suffering years of failure on every issue tackled, we cannot overlook the many, many, many, many, many victims of crime, thousands on whose behalf Kim Gardner refuses to prosecute. Thousands of cases being thrown out citing ‘lack of evidence’, her ‘go to’ excuse for not prosecuting cases, which we know not to be true after Trump sent prosecutors to work Kim Gardner’s backlog of cases and they solved the murder of Sweetie Pie’s star Andre Montgomery in a week after it sat unsolved on Kim Gardner’s desk for years.
Justice isn’t either/or fam. Advocating for the wrongfully convicted is an absolute must, but it should never, ever come at the expense of advocating for justice for victims.
That isn’t justice.
That is an agenda.
And the entire region is suffering as a result.
