In a video posted Tuesday, Judge Joe Brown, a former TV personality, criticized former San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris' record, accusing the current vice president of issuing harsh sentences and actively targeting parents.
Harris' campaign is reportedly trying to position her as a law-and-order candidate as she seeks to defeat former President Donald Trump in the November election.The Art of Dialogue” said District Attorney Harris' policies have disproportionately harmed “young black men” and wrongfully incarcerated their parents. (Related article: Top left-wing donors endorse Kamala Harris)
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'She didn't do a very good job': Judge Joe Brown slams Kamala Harris' record in San Francisco pic.twitter.com/eJ7EtF6jeQ
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“Her job wasn't a big deal. She had a reputation for handing out some of the harshest sentences in the nation for simple marijuana possession in San Francisco, but only to young black men,” Brown said in a video posted Tuesday. “She wasn't a parent, she didn't have children, yet she started a campaign to send parents to prison. Some parents did actually send their kids to school, but they ended up in prison for skipping school.”
Harris prosecutors have convicted nearly 2,000 people for marijuana-related crimes. District Attorney From 2004 to 2010, according to She also told the San Francisco Chronicle: Proposed A policy to prosecute school refusal cases that led to the prosecution of parents whose children were frequently absent from school. according to To NBC News.
Penalties include fines and even prison time, and critics say the policy unfairly targets black families, NBC News reported.
“My office prosecutes parents in specialty truancy court, combining rigorous court monitoring with customized family services,” Harris wrote in 2009. “To date, I have prosecuted parents of 20 young children for truancy. Charged as a misdemeanor, the penalties for truancy are up to a $2,500 fine and/or up to one year in jail.”
Harris' office received more than $5 million in “unjustified” federal funding from the Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative to prosecute border-related crimes when she was district attorney. according to A March 2010 Department of Justice audit ordered San Francisco County to repay misappropriated funds to the federal government.
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