15 yrs old Black Girl gets 7 yrs in Prison for pushing a teacher!!

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15 YEAR OLD GIRL, GETS SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON FOR PUSHING A TEACHER!!!


Creola Cotton (left) and Shaquanda Cotton
By Tracy Stokes, BET.com News Staff & Wire Services
Posted March 28, 2007 – In Paris, Texas, last year, a 14-year-old White girl burns down her family's home. Her punishment? Probation. In the same town three months later, a 15-year-old Black girl, Shaquanda Cotton, is sentenced to seven years in prison for pushing a hall monitor at her high school.


Shaquanda had no prior arrests, and the monitor, a 58-year-old teacher's aide, was not hurt, according to Black leaders in the northeast Texas town of about 26,000 residents . But in March 2006, the same judge, Lamar County Judge Chuck Superville, who let the White teenage girl go on probation, convicted Shaquanda of "assault on a public servant" and sent her to prison at least until she turns 21.
Officials at the Texas Youth Commission declined to discuss the case with BET.com, citing Texas law.
"State law forbids us from acknowledging whether we have any youths are in our system, despite the 50 million issues of print that's been run," said Jim Hurley, a spokesman for the Texas Youth Commission. "We'd have to break the law to talk about it."
Civil Rights Uproar
While the U.S. Department of Educ ation is investigating the incident, the case has civil rights groups in an uproar.
"I don't understand the j udge's rationale for his decision," Dr. Howard Anderson, president of the San Antonio Branch of the NAACP, told BET.com.
In highlighting what he called an egregious miscarriage of justice in a town with a long history of civil rights abuses, Anderson pointed to the case of the 14-year-old convicted arson (whose name was not released because of her age), who was slapped with probation, and the case of a 19-year-old White man in Paris, convicted of killing a 54-year-old Black woman and her 3-year-old grandson with his truck. The latter, he said, was also sentenced to probation and told to send the family a Christmas card every year.
"Then you have Shaquanda's case," Anderson said. "She pushed a hall monitor, and she gets seven years confinement? If I look at all three of these sentences, and I'm not a lawyer, I have to wonder what the judicial system is doing. &nb sp;In this particular case, what is this judge doing?"
Gary Bledsoe, an Austin attorney who heads the state NAACP branch, told BET.com that Shaquanda was merely trying to defend herself.
"All she (Shaquanda) did was grab the aide to prevent a strike," Bledsoe said. "It's like they are sending a signal to Black folks in Paris that you stay in your place in this community, in the shadows, intimidated."
Sad History
And keeping Blacks in their place is nothing new in Paris, say leaders, who remind that it's the site of the first highly publicized lynching of a Black by a large White mob. In 1893, fugitive Henry White was captured in Arkansas and brought to Paris , where he was tortured and burned alive on a train bed as more than 10,000 angry townsfolk cheered and jeered.
Activists say that the Shaquanda sentence is nothing more than a modern-day lynching.
Cotton has been incarcerated at a youth prison in Brown wood , Texas , for the last year on a sentence that could run until her 21st birthday. But like many of the other youths in the system, she is eligible to earn early release if she achieves certain social, behavioral and educational milestones while in prison.
But according to The Chicago Tribune, officials at the Ron Jackson Correctional Complex repeatedly have extended Shaquanda's sentence because she refuses to admit guilt and because she reportedly was found with contraband in her cell – an extra pair of socks.
"She's not admitting any guilt, because she doesn't feel that she did anything," Anderson told BET.com. "Not to mention, who saw the pushing, if it did occur?"

Cotton's mother, Creola, who Anderson describes as "strong-willed," said her daughter was singled out because she accused the school district of racism on several occasions.
In fact, 12 discrimination complaints have been filed against the Pa ris Independent School District in recent years. District officials dispute the charges, but the U.S. Department of Education, which is still investigating the case, has reportedly asked the U.S. Department of Justice to get involved.
In 1998, Paris , Texas , was named the " Best Small Town in Texas " by Kevin Heubusch in his book The New Rating Guide to Life in America 's Small Cities.

*****FORWARD THIS ON TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE!!!
WE NEED TO BRING THESE INJUSTICES TO LIGHT*****

Are you interested in reaching out to Shaquanda? You can write directly to her at the address below:

She also receive mail here:
Ron Jackson Correctional Complex,
Unit 2, Dorm 4
P.O. Box 872
Brownwood , Texas 76804
1125308
Protest letters can also be sent to Judge Chuck Superville, who handed down the sentence at the address below:
Honorable M.C. (Chuck) Superville, Jr., Judge
Lamar County Courthouse
119 North Main
Paris , TX 75460
Phone # 903-737-2410
Fax # 903-785-3858
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I am speechless in reading this in my email and I don't know what to say or think of this poor little 15 years old American girl - OMG!!!!
 

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As I read the article, it is all about the racism. I feel sorry for the black girl who don't deserve 7 years sentence in prison. She reminds me of myself 2 times when I was at Canada's border. The US Border Inspector who asked every one for their passport or ID cards... came up to me, askin' for my ID card. I told him that it was in my baggage under my seat. He looked at me like I was a terrorist or somethin'. He asked me where I was born from. Told him that I was born in NYC. I couldn't believe this when he questioned me like this since he and I are an American citizens. Uh-oh, it was about my complexion skin. Gee - my complexion skin is olive for pete's sake. :roll:

I know how that black girl feel. I was there before about " racism " thing. I don't think it is fair for the judge to release a white girl who burned the house down and gave her a probation. I think someone should fire that judge and find a new one who will give the same justice and fair for everyone!
 
PRISON FOR PUSHING? This is total ridiculous, I ever seen…

What’s the wrong with that counseling, etc that she needs a help? Send her to prison is not the BEST solution but WORST… I feel really bad for a girl... :(
 
That's fucking racism, I feel bad for her.

I hope that she will get out of jail soon.
 
but im sure this girls need know do and dont push teachers or aide teachers in school policy and getting more troubles but im sure teenager girls got in jail and more learn lesson cant touch teachers never!

i never push teachers in my life But mostly students always push teachers all the times they give 9th hour or dentention they tell parents what happened about pushing teacher or principal,student also have hurt or not hurt.

mostly boys always push girls also but im sure boys been bullied as pushing teachers,principal,students they never forgives im sure students need learn lesson dont pushing like that.
 
sara1981 said:
but im sure this girls need know do and dont push teachers or aide teachers in school policy and getting more troubles but im sure teenager girls got in jail and more learn lesson cant touch teachers never!

i never push teachers in my life But mostly students always push teachers all the times they give 9th hour or dentention they tell parents what happened about pushing teacher or principal,student also have hurt or not hurt.

mostly boys always push girls also but im sure boys been bullied as pushing teachers,principal,students they never forgives im sure students need learn lesson dont pushing like that.
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Are you against on black people? I DON'T APPRECIATE THAT.

Don't call everything at 15 years old girl. :mad:
 
oh my gosh! gee i cant believe.. i undy how her feeling.. wow.. i am shock to hear that news..
 
sara1981 said:
im serious about this story! im not joking!
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I think that you are supposed to support her too, also not from teachers and teachers can be make mistake then cause any kids to get in rage at them, such as teacher who is yelled at teen guy's face, that is sooo rude and unacceptable.

In one day, I will take you to ghetto of Little Rock and tell me about black neighborhood isn't bad for your taste or whatever.

I guess that you don't understand then it's okay.

I had been pushed at one man, that who is teacher when I was in 9th grade because he was yelled at my face, that make me so unacceptable to see like that but I got 1 week in school suspension and rid of his classes then had took other again in next grade. My punishment isn't same as 15 years old black girl, that is much worse than mine.
 
Pacman said:
I think that you are supposed to support her too, also not from teachers and teachers can be make mistake then cause any kids to get in rage at them, such as teacher who is yelled at teen guy's face, that is sooo rude and unacceptable.

In one day, I will take you to ghetto of Little Rock and tell me about black neighborhood isn't bad for your taste or whatever.

I guess that you don't understand then it's okay.

I had been pushed at one man, that who is teacher when I was in 9th grade because he was yelled at my face, that make me so unacceptable to see like that but I got 1 week in school suspension and rid of his classes then had took other again in next grade. My punishment isn't same as 15 years old black girl, that is much worse than mine.
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oh really

i never against black people before in my lifes i never says that
 
Pacman said:
I think that you are supposed to support her too, also not from teachers and teachers can be make mistake then cause any kids to get in rage at them, such as teacher who is yelled at teen guy's face, that is sooo rude and unacceptable.

In one day, I will take you to ghetto of Little Rock and tell me about black neighborhood isn't bad for your taste or whatever.

I guess that you don't understand then it's okay.

I had been pushed at one man, that who is teacher when I was in 9th grade because he was yelled at my face, that make me so unacceptable to see like that but I got 1 week in school suspension and rid of his classes then had took other again in next grade. My punishment isn't same as 15 years old black girl, that is much worse than mine.
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:gpost:
 
pushing? but no hitting.. thats stupid to have that crap 7 years. should be on probation instead in prison.
 
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