FL ATTORNEY ARAMIS AYALA SUING GOV. RICK SCOTT OVER REMOVAL FROM DEATH PENALTY CASES;
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE WAKE OF SAN BERNARDINO MURDER-SUICIDE
“She’s not only right, but that is her job as a prosecutor. She was elected on the principles of not believing in the death penalty and it’s her duty to ensure that what the people elected her to do is exactly right. Cases like this are very difficult and they have a lot of different factors, and for a governor to step in on an elected prosecutorial lawyer in this case would decide is a grave overreach,” says Jones. ‘This is also an issue of local control. This woman was locally elected and as the governor of the state the only time he should step in is if there is a conflict of interest or and abuse of office, and he should only do so under Florida law.”
FL State Attorney Aramis Ayala Filed A Lawsuit Against
Gov. Scott Over Death Penalty Cases
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Martin, who is in Atlanta at the HOPE Global Forums, also spoke with Dr. Oliver Williams, director of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community about the troubling reality of domestic violence in the black community. On Monday, Cedric Anderson shot and killed his estranged wife, Karen Smith, an eight year-old student, and wounded another student before killing himself. Smith moved out of the couple’s home last month and had gone into hiding because she was terrified of her husband. Anderson had a three-decade criminal history dating back to 1982 that included a domestic violence charge, and a restraining order alleges he threatened a former girlfriend with a butcher knife.
“It’s not unusual for women to not necessarily tell everybody what’s going on. I mean, still there’s an issue of shame, even with women who have experienced this problem. One issue is, even if she had told the school, how prepared would the school be to be able to respond to it if he did that? So I guess the question is how prepared are we to deal with this issue as a community?” says Williams. “I think oftentimes that society treats domestic violence as though it’s an extension of just the conflict – the conflict and not violence in terms of how we think about it. But it’s not unusual too for women to do all the right things. One thing is to be aware of it, and then possibly be responsive and try to deal in terms of dealing with prevention, as well as when the crisis happens.”
Clip: San Bernardino Shooting Reveals A Far More Common
Form Of Terror – Domestic Violence
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