Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Justice For Us?

Thursday, January 03, 2019

Justice For Us?

Last month a trans woman was murdered in Detroit and the case has been making its way through the court system.

Detroit pastor charged in death of transgender woman
Kelly Stough, 36, found dead Friday
Click on Detroit
By Brian Newlin, Associated Press
December 13, 2018

DETROIT - A Detroit pastor has been charged in the murder of a transgender woman who was found dead Friday in the city's Palmer Park neighborhood, officials said.

Albert Weathers, 46, of Sterling Heights was charged Monday with murder in the death of 36-year-old Kelly Stough.

The Wayne County prosecutor's office says evidence about how Stough's transgender status had a role will be presented in court. Spokeswoman Maria Miller declined further comment. A message seeking comment was left with Weathers' lawyer.

Well yesterday was a bond hearing for the pastor,

Prosecutor: Pastor waited hour to call 911 after shooting transgender woman
Fox 2
By: FOX 2 Staff
January 2, 2019

Nearly one month ago a transgender woman was brutally murdered in Detroit.

On Wednesday the suspected killer, a pastor, faced a judge.

"They threw her out, the driver got out and snatched something out of her hand," said a 911 call. "I saw her; she was still breathing."

That call and a surveillance video could play big roles in the case of Kelly Stough, a murdered transgender woman. She was gunned down on Detroit's east side in December after an encounter with Albert Weathers a husband, father and pastor.

And what did the pastor lawyer have to say?

"This is a man who's acting out of concern that he was going to be assaulted with a dangerous weapon himself," said David Cripps, defense attorney. "(He) was trying to confront that person. A person who threatened to flatten tires and smash out the window.

The court didn’t buy is argument that he was the real victim.

Right now Weathers is still behind bars.

Judge Michael Wagner denied the Weathers' request to lower his $1 million bond.

He's due back in court in February.

My guess and it is only a guess that the “good” pastor was looking for a good time when he was rebuffed by her and he panicked to keep her quiet.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Thursday, January 03, 2019

Justice For Us?

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