The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen charged with felony for science experiment

orangelemonart:

aka14kgold:

onebigpear:

fuckyeahfeminists:

This is what the school-to-prison pipeline looks like. This is how black youth criminalized.

1. She was doing a science experiment
2. She’s being charged as an ADULT
3. She’s being charged with a FELONY

If this all goes the way the prosecution wants, this young woman will be LEGALLY discriminated against for the rest of her life. No voting, housing discrimination,  employment discrimination (as if getting a job while black isn’t hard enough), etc. etc.

There is a petition up … spread the word.

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot

Hey, remember this from yesterday? Go ahead and hit up the petition. 

She’s sixteen and no one was hurt.Every fucking white sixteen year old boy I know does this out on the sidewalk, not even in  classroom environment, and get off scot free. Sign people, if there’s one thing towns hate, its petitions and media attention.