Charged by Emily Bazelon5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of them had minimal criminal records. Instead, over many months of my reporting, I found hundreds of teenagers and young people, almost all of them black, being marched to prison not for firing a gun, or even pointing one, but for having one. ![]() I thought I’d find horrific stories of gun violence and hardened evildoers, like de Blasio said. Two and a half years ago, I started visiting the Brooklyn gun court to see how it was working. My new book Charged tells their stories, and so does a podcast with the same name that Slate is launching Wednesday. If they flashed one on social media, the cops showed up at their door and a criminal prosecution followed. They were Bennett’s age or younger, but they were black and male, and in their hands, guns read as violent and threatening. Her gun read as a political statement or provocation.Īs it happened, I was spending a lot of time with young people with guns that spring. She went on to appear on Fox and Friends and got respectful coverage in the Washington Post and other mainstream outlets. In graduation photos that Viceland called “fun and flirty,” Bennett-a young white woman in a white sundress and heels-presented herself as a poster child for the gun lobby. Why the Latest Clarence Thomas Revelation Is the Most Insulting There’s a Bigger Threat Than the Proud Boys We Tried to Figure Out if Anyone Has Ever Been Sued More Than Donald Trump Three Cases in North Carolina, Decades of Democracy Undone ![]()
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