Comments on: NAACP Protests ‘Barbie Bandits’ Sentences http://sandrarose.com/2008/04/08/naacp-protests-barbie-bandits-sentences/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:40:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Bird http://sandrarose.com/2008/04/08/naacp-protests-barbie-bandits-sentences/#comment-21760 Bird Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:53:09 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/04/08/naacp-protests-barbie-bandits-sentences/#comment-21760 I just read some of the comments and the reason Andrew Butler and Christopher Avery probably got so much time is because it was an armed robbery. Guns can add up to 10 years to any sentence. I know more than one person who received lengthy sentences on first offenses because they were armed. I even know someone who got 14 years for stealing cheese and crackers from a convenience store while armed with a realistic looking water gun as a prank. As long as the victim thinks the weapon is real it's considered and armed crime. I just read some of the comments and the reason Andrew Butler and Christopher Avery probably got so much time is because it was an armed robbery. Guns can add up to 10 years to any sentence. I know more than one person who received lengthy sentences on first offenses because they were armed. I even know someone who got 14 years for stealing cheese and crackers from a convenience store while armed with a realistic looking water gun as a prank. As long as the victim thinks the weapon is real it’s considered and armed crime.

]]> By: Bird http://sandrarose.com/2008/04/08/naacp-protests-barbie-bandits-sentences/#comment-21743 Bird Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:34:14 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/04/08/naacp-protests-barbie-bandits-sentences/#comment-21743 That bank teller is a fool. I know plenty of people with drug arrests who can't get a decent job. Here this idiot gets one and he blows it. If it will make them and the NAACP feel any better, I have a white elderly former coworker who was sentenced to more than five years for robbing a bank and it was her first offense. I think she had a gun though, but still they didn't take her mental state into consideration or anything. The moral of the story is don't break the law and you won't have to worry about this sh*t. That bank teller is a fool. I know plenty of people with drug arrests who can’t get a decent job. Here this idiot gets one and he blows it. If it will make them and the NAACP feel any better, I have a white elderly former coworker who was sentenced to more than five years for robbing a bank and it was her first offense. I think she had a gun though, but still they didn’t take her mental state into consideration or anything. The moral of the story is don’t break the law and you won’t have to worry about this sh*t.

]]> By: GWU http://sandrarose.com/2008/04/08/naacp-protests-barbie-bandits-sentences/#comment-21626 GWU Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:04:33 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/04/08/naacp-protests-barbie-bandits-sentences/#comment-21626 Hold up. How can you work for a bank and be on probation? In Canada, you cannot have a criminal record (that hasn't been expunged) and work for a financial institution (or cash chequing place for that matter). Further, all major banks give employees 48 hours following an arrest to report it to human resources. Depending on the arrest/charge you may be terminated immediately. You might get lucky if it something like DWI, but most people don't make it. And they make you sign this contract before your hired, so you can't even claim ignorance. If you are arrested for anything and don't report it, it is automatic dismissal. But race my not be a factor in the case of the employee. As an employee of the bank he is privy to insider information, which he clearly used to assist the girls in robbing the joint. In Canada, employee theft is always treated harsher than shoplifting because there is an element of trust employers give to you. I have no pity for him. He just made it harder for other blacks (especially those with prior records) to get jobs at his and other financial institutions. And for what a cut of $11K? That is one short sighted idiot. While he sits in jail for 5 years, I hope he realizes that he could have made that working at McDonalds -and their uniform is far less itchy than those prison issues he'll be sporting. Aside: when you violate probation don't you have to then do the sentence? So their previous convictions coupled with the new crimes, doesn't that explain the prison terms? Hold up. How can you work for a bank and be on probation? In Canada, you cannot have a criminal record (that hasn’t been expunged) and work for a financial institution (or cash chequing place for that matter). Further, all major banks give employees 48 hours following an arrest to report it to human resources. Depending on the arrest/charge you may be terminated immediately. You might get lucky if it something like DWI, but most people don’t make it. And they make you sign this contract before your hired, so you can’t even claim ignorance. If you are arrested for anything and don’t report it, it is automatic dismissal.

But race my not be a factor in the case of the employee. As an employee of the bank he is privy to insider information, which he clearly used to assist the girls in robbing the joint. In Canada, employee theft is always treated harsher than shoplifting because there is an element of trust employers give to you. I have no pity for him. He just made it harder for other blacks (especially those with prior records) to get jobs at his and other financial institutions. And for what a cut of $11K? That is one short sighted idiot. While he sits in jail for 5 years, I hope he realizes that he could have made that working at McDonalds -and their uniform is far less itchy than those prison issues he’ll be sporting.

Aside: when you violate probation don’t you have to then do the sentence? So their previous convictions coupled with the new crimes, doesn’t that explain the prison terms?

]]> By: Destiny http://sandrarose.com/2008/04/08/naacp-protests-barbie-bandits-sentences/#comment-21611 Destiny Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:53:30 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/04/08/naacp-protests-barbie-bandits-sentences/#comment-21611 Sandra, I certainly agree with you on this one. Sandra, I certainly agree with you on this one.

]]> By: MZN http://sandrarose.com/2008/04/08/naacp-protests-barbie-bandits-sentences/#comment-21565 MZN Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:16:23 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/04/08/naacp-protests-barbie-bandits-sentences/#comment-21565 MMMMMMMMMM... Benny is cute! Too bad baby! Next time straighten up and fly right! MMMMMMMMMM… Benny is cute! Too bad baby! Next time straighten up and fly right!

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