The teen girl without a permanent home who was forced to don jail garb, wear handcuffs and ask for mercy after falling asleep in a courtroom is suing the Detroit judge who had her taken into custody.

Eva Goodman, 15, and her mother filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan against 36th District Judge Kenneth King. They allege he violated the teen’s civil rights, arguing King acted outside the scope of his judicial authority when he detained her, yelled at her and threatened her with jail time.

  • boyi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    Not sure this applies here. The judge is black. Anyway, still possible though.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      4 months ago

      Black people can be racist toward black people as well.

      Though I think this was just a standard power trip, and the unhoused black girl was just an appealing defenseless target unlike the weirdo-in-chief.