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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFloridas First Black State Attorney Received A Noose In The Mail***NSFW
State Attorney Aramis Ayala challenged the death penalty in the aggressive capital punishment state.
She should pick cotton for the rest of her life and be whipped.
Letter sent to Aramis Ayala
Her office says she now regularly receives hate mail, likely due to her decision not to seek the death penalty and her battle with the governor. A spokesperson sent Huffington Post three racist and threatening correspondence she received, one of which was a racist, expletive-laced tirade left in the comments section of her YouTube page:
Fucking n***rs. n***rs everywhere. the black woman is sticking up for a convicted COP killer. She should be on trial for her job and fired and thrown to the streets. She should pick cotton for the rest of her life and be whipped.
Another two were Facebook posts, embedded below. None of these three are part of the investigation, but give a clear picture of what Ayala is dealing with. HuffPost has withheld their identities because they are not a part of a criminal investigation.
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Reading those make me want to vomit. They show uncontrolled rage that is truly frightening. This is 'tRumps America' and they a slithering out from under their rocks at a rapid pace.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,611 posts)And you're right: tRump is authorizing and empowering them, more and more, all the time.
How do we stop them?
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)We have Resist as much as we can and stand up for one another.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)In Florida we have places like Moon Lake and the surrounding neighborhoods. Few outside of Florida are aware of these areas. They are white supremacist strongholds.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)It must hurt to be that stupid.
Edit to add: Her judicial district is next to the one where Zimmy
went to court. So the responses are not all that unexpected.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)DFW
(54,370 posts)And some people wonder how it could be that people in rural Florida voted overwhelmingly for Trump. Maybe this will provide an answer?
AllaN01Bear
(18,191 posts)who do the fuck think you are
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)from my link
An incident report obtained by the paper stated that Ayala believes the hangmans noose was meant as a threat to her as a public official.
Deputies are reportedly working with the U.S. Postal Service to find a suspect. A spokesperson in Ayalas office said the author of the letters didnt leave a name.
Initech
(100,068 posts)Fucking assholes. Every single one of them.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)Laugh at the stupidity.
But these folks aren't ignorant.
They're racists.
And racism is a primitive Neanderthal thought process.
They are devolved species. I wouldn't call a bird or a whale stupid so I won't call them stupid.
Racists. They're just a less intelligent breed.
onetexan
(13,040 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 21, 2017, 09:07 PM - Edit history (1)
But one horrible thing about all this is that they were there, under those rocks, all along.
Taken on average, Americans are a far worse, more unforgivable lot that most of us realized.
It won't be enough to get rid of Trump and Ryan and a few others at the top.
This base must be dealt with.
And how do you deal with them???
They can't be reasoned with. Merely reading those quotes should put that idea to rest.
It doesn't work to just wait for them to die; they're busy making new ones just like them.
How will America ever be a decent place if populated by the likes of those letter-writers?
jpak
(41,757 posts)Who knew?