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'Black lives don't matter to black people with guns': Manhattan judge hits out at gunman with political dig as he jails him for 26 years for attempted murder
Hannah Parry Published: 22:01 EST, 29 March 2016 |
A Supreme Court Justice told a 'New York gang member' that 'black lives don't matter to black people with guns' as he jailed him for shooting a rival.
Tareek Arnold, who is black, was charged with attempted murder after he shot Jamal McCaskill, also black, four times last summer.
The 24-year-old has been in custody since he was re-arrested in July after escaping from custody the month before.
Today, Justice Edward McLaughlin addressed the Black Lives Matters movement as he sentenced Arnold at Manhattan Supreme Court, New York Post reports.
'Black lives matter,' the judge told the suspect, as he jailed him for between 24 and 26 years.
'I have heard it, I know it,' he said. 'But the sad fact is in this courtroom, so often what happens is manifestations of the fact that black lives don't matter to black people with guns.'
Arnold, an alleged member of the 40 Wolves gang, was caught on surveillance footage shooting McCaskill, 38, multiple times in Harlem, New York. The victim was taken to hospital but survived.
The 24-year-old, who has previous convictions for weapons possession, was arrested on suspicion of the rival gang member shooting, New York Daily News reports.
McCaskill later appeared as a witness for the defense, claiming that Arnold had not been the shooter - despite surveillance footage to the contrary.
'The video shows that Mr. McCaskill is an abject liar,' the judge said.
Arnold was being transferred from the 32nd Precinct station to Manhattan Central Booking on June 23, with his hands cuffed behind his back, when he shoved one of the officers and was able to flee on foot.
Arnold was discovered living at a friend's apartment - just four blocks away from the station - a month later and charged with attempted murder, escaping custody, possession of a gun and assault.
His defense lawyer Mark Jankowitz had requested the minimum sentence of ten years, arguing his client's one-year-old son would be robbed of his father.
But no-nonsense judge McLaughlin warned the lawyer not to appeal for a low sentence for people, 'who by their violent acts wind up leaving people orphaned, abandoned, fatherless, et cetera.'
Judge McLaughlin has been very outspoken on the gun crime epidemic in Harlem.
'Only Harlem can save Harlem,' he said in a moving plea in 2011, New York Post reports. 'If Harlem's leaders are at all sick of 'the pools of blood on the block,' they must mobilize their neighbors to find and get rid of the guns in their homes,' he said.
'When someone fires a pistol in Harlem, the person almost always is a resident,' the judge said. 'The person fired at is a resident.
'When a person is killed, or paralyzed for life, the person is a resident of that community.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ted-murder.html
Hannah Parry Published: 22:01 EST, 29 March 2016 |
A Supreme Court Justice told a 'New York gang member' that 'black lives don't matter to black people with guns' as he jailed him for shooting a rival.
Tareek Arnold, who is black, was charged with attempted murder after he shot Jamal McCaskill, also black, four times last summer.
The 24-year-old has been in custody since he was re-arrested in July after escaping from custody the month before.
Today, Justice Edward McLaughlin addressed the Black Lives Matters movement as he sentenced Arnold at Manhattan Supreme Court, New York Post reports.
'Black lives matter,' the judge told the suspect, as he jailed him for between 24 and 26 years.
'I have heard it, I know it,' he said. 'But the sad fact is in this courtroom, so often what happens is manifestations of the fact that black lives don't matter to black people with guns.'
Arnold, an alleged member of the 40 Wolves gang, was caught on surveillance footage shooting McCaskill, 38, multiple times in Harlem, New York. The victim was taken to hospital but survived.
The 24-year-old, who has previous convictions for weapons possession, was arrested on suspicion of the rival gang member shooting, New York Daily News reports.
McCaskill later appeared as a witness for the defense, claiming that Arnold had not been the shooter - despite surveillance footage to the contrary.
'The video shows that Mr. McCaskill is an abject liar,' the judge said.
Arnold was being transferred from the 32nd Precinct station to Manhattan Central Booking on June 23, with his hands cuffed behind his back, when he shoved one of the officers and was able to flee on foot.
Arnold was discovered living at a friend's apartment - just four blocks away from the station - a month later and charged with attempted murder, escaping custody, possession of a gun and assault.
His defense lawyer Mark Jankowitz had requested the minimum sentence of ten years, arguing his client's one-year-old son would be robbed of his father.
But no-nonsense judge McLaughlin warned the lawyer not to appeal for a low sentence for people, 'who by their violent acts wind up leaving people orphaned, abandoned, fatherless, et cetera.'
Judge McLaughlin has been very outspoken on the gun crime epidemic in Harlem.
'Only Harlem can save Harlem,' he said in a moving plea in 2011, New York Post reports. 'If Harlem's leaders are at all sick of 'the pools of blood on the block,' they must mobilize their neighbors to find and get rid of the guns in their homes,' he said.
'When someone fires a pistol in Harlem, the person almost always is a resident,' the judge said. 'The person fired at is a resident.
'When a person is killed, or paralyzed for life, the person is a resident of that community.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ted-murder.html
