A black person is killed by a police officer, prison guard, or vigilante every 28 hours. That's how often it happens.

“Can you imagine how many incidents just like this happen every single day? And have been happening every single day for the past 200+ years? And have not been caught on camera?”

“There should be a reward for whoever filmed this.”

It won’t. Eric Garner. Also on film. White cop, black victim, Fox is already firing up the spin machine. We’ll be hearing about this murder victim’s 1974 jaywalking conviction by the end of the day.

Can you imagine how many incidents just like this happen every single day? And have been happening every single day for the past 200+ years? And have not been caught on camera?

I can’t bear to watch the video but I am so damn glad that someone made one. There should be a reward for whoever filmed this.

For real. Modern electronics and the internet have made it so that we don't HAVE to hoard clunky vintage game systems anymore. Embrace it, dude!

It's not really about taxpayer money. It's that this is terrorizing our whole fucking community and putting people at risk of death by police.

The punishment must be as harsh as possible to get people to stop even thinking about doing this

Imprisonment for life, regardless of age, should be the result of this. It's an act of terrorism.

You're a fucking idiot. If you can't see the difference between negotiating for time served and using sterilization as a condition to negotiations then you should be subjected to the forced sterilization so that your brand of idiocy doesn't get passed down.

There's a power difference. Forcing sterilization as part of a plea deal is coercion not consent. You should learn the difference.

The prosecutor's boss stepped in, said it was wrong, and ended the practice because coercion is not consent.

The most recent Nashville case involved Jasmine Randers, 36, who had been under court supervision for mental illness when she left her home state of Minnesota. She gave birth in West Memphis, Ark., then fled a homeless shelter to come to Nashville, said her attorney, Mary-Kathryn Harcombe.

Seems like coersion (sp?). Which would make a normal contract void, would a plea deal not fall under contract law?

No. No it is not.

As a healthcare provider serving in Virginia, this is no surprise to me. I have never seen a "legal" forced sterilization but I've seen some "Mississippi appendectomies" where a patient was essentially given a sterilization without her informed consent. Every single patient with this story has been a woman of color.

Where I live, it was legal for the government to sterilize people from 1928 until 1972 - the law was amended in 1937 to remove the need for consent. It was passed to sterilize the mentally ill to prevent them from passing their defective genes, but in actual fact it was used on the poor, aboriginal people, disabled…

The thing that bugs the crap out of me is when women in these suits are all "women in *blank* industry". And it's like only women in their industry face discrimination. Like in her tweets, she says she wants to inspire women in the venture capital industry, or in this article they specifically reference the tech…

Just to give you an idea of how conservative America is, California is considered one of the country's 2-3 most liberal states.