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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1582219" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Black Woman Charged With Lynching During Police Violence Protest </strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>An African-American protester was charged with lynching during a police violence protest in Sacramento, California, after she attempted to pull a fellow activist from a police officer’s hands. The 20-year-old woman, Maile Hampton, is facing a possible four years in prison along with a felony listed permanently on her record for the charge.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/black-woman-activist-faces-charges-lynching-protest-activities" target="_blank"><em>The Guardian</em></a> reports that under California law, removing someone from police custody is defined as “lynching.” Therefore, when activist Hampton attempted to pull her friend from the police during the protest, she was attempting to “remove” someone from police custody, which led to the lynching charges.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>California’s lynching law was put on the books in 1933 to prevent mobs from forcibly taking people from police custody for vigilante justice.</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1582219, member: 12952"] [SIZE=6][B]Black Woman Charged With Lynching During Police Violence Protest [/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=6] [B]An African-American protester was charged with lynching during a police violence protest in Sacramento, California, after she attempted to pull a fellow activist from a police officer’s hands. The 20-year-old woman, Maile Hampton, is facing a possible four years in prison along with a felony listed permanently on her record for the charge. [URL='http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/black-woman-activist-faces-charges-lynching-protest-activities'][I]The Guardian[/I][/URL] reports that under California law, removing someone from police custody is defined as “lynching.” Therefore, when activist Hampton attempted to pull her friend from the police during the protest, she was attempting to “remove” someone from police custody, which led to the lynching charges.[/B] [B][/B] [B]California’s lynching law was put on the books in 1933 to prevent mobs from forcibly taking people from police custody for vigilante justice.[/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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