Racism

Intern In Prosecutor's Office Shares What He Really Thinks About The Black Community

If you are running a prosecutor's office and your screening doesn't pick up on a guy like this, you are doing it entirely wrong.

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Racism FacebookYou can do all the sensitivity training on the police force that you can think of. You can raise awareness. You can appoint special prosecutors to keep tabs on the police. It won’t help. The racism in our system is systemic. As long as you keep giving racist people jobs within the system, nothing will change.

Just look at this guy.

A law student shared some (now deleted) Facebook posts from an intern in the Marion County prosecutor’s office in Indiana. Marion County is the one that encompasses Indianapolis, a city that is 25% African-American. The intern is a rising 3L at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. That’s IUPUI Law School in Indianapolis.

I’m not going to share the intern’s name or personal backstory because (a) we generally don’t publish names of law students who haven’t otherwise been outed, (b) it’s a little too hot right now to just be naming people online, and (c) he problem is not the person, it’s the system that might give him a job where he has discretion over the application of criminal justice.

Anyway, here’s what he said on Facebook:

IUPUI racist 3L 1

When you see a cop shoot a black person on video, remember that it’s people like this who will be making the decision of whether to prosecute.

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In part, this is a hiring problem. How does a prosecutor’s office hire this guy as an intern? Without revealing too much, I’ve scrolled through this guy’s public-facing Facebook page, this isn’t the only status update that suggests he might be a little off.

Moreover, if you are running a prosecutor’s office and your screening doesn’t pick up on a guy like this, you are doing it entirely wrong. There are a lot of jobs this guy can perform while harboring these beliefs. Working as a prosecutor is not one. Getting coffee for a prosecutor is not one.

Oh, and lest you think he only hates the “so-called” black community:

IUPUI racist 3L 2

The “bad apple” defense to police brutality and prosecutorial indifference is a pathetic excuse. If the system has all of these bad apples bobbing around, we need to rethink what we’re picking off the tree.

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Elie Mystal can be reached @ElieNYC. He’s in a bad place and is in no mood for trifilin behavior.

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