A defendant who was captured in courtroom video leaping over a judge’s bench and attacking her, touching off a bloody brawl, is scheduled to appear before her again Monday morning.
In his Jan. 3 appearance before Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus, Deobra Redden, who was facing prison time for a felony battery charge stemming from a baseball bat attack last year, tried to convince the judge that he was turning around his violent past.
Redden asked for leniency while describing himself as “a person who never stops trying to do the right thing no matter how hard it is.”
But when it became clear Holthus was going to sentence him to prison time, and as the court marshal moved to handcuff and take him into custody, Redden yelled expletives and charged forward. People in the courtroom audience, including his foster mother, began to scream.
The American prison system will be a greeeeeat place to do that!
Our willingness to punish people instead of helping them knows no bounds. We’re #1 for prison population in the world in both percentage of population and in absolute numbers. Take that, China!
The US culture is just crushingly harmful and abusive.
If parents teach kids well, society will not have to ditch out such punishment