Jails / Prisons : Innocent teen spent 5 months in prison

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Innocent in shooting, Nicetown youth spent five months in prison

By Joseph A. Slobodzian

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By rights, Lionel Franks should have graduated from high school in June, near the top of his class.

By rights, he already should have started his freshman year at Lincoln University, studying culinary arts.

By rights, he should have been anywhere but in jail for five of the most important months of his teenage life, accused of shooting a man 12 times on a North Philadelphia street.

Franks' bad-dream detour into the city's criminal-justice system began April 9, a Friday mostly spent touring the Lincoln campus in rural Chester County. Back home in his Nicetown neighborhood by midafternoon, he changed into an Adidas sweat suit, green with white stripes down the pants and sleeves, and went shopping for sneakers at a sporting-goods store on Germantown Avenue.

Minutes into the return trip, Franks was swarmed by police. A man had just been gunned down 12 blocks away, they told him, and two witnesses had identified him as the shooter.

Franks showed the officers his bag from Olympia Sports and his new shoes. "You got the wrong guy!" he protested as they cuffed him.

READ: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/2...cetown_youth_spent_five_months_in_prison.html

 
uh....well... he's black.
What other escuse is needed to land a man in jail?

Maybe it's all a conspiracy - see the more black men you land in jail.... the more the upper class black women will not want them and will remain single. That means the only women these men are going to get with are hoodrats. Then they produce more hoodrat babies that can go to jail and that keeps America employed. It's good for the economy.

In the meantime, the upper class black women remain single - that means no upper class college bound black folks. Or they get with white men and that means you have a separate class of people that actually turn out better than regular ol class of black folks.


oh... did I say dat? :gossip: :rain:
 
uh....well... he's black.
What other escuse is needed to land a man in jail?

Maybe it's all a conspiracy - see the more black men you land in jail.... the more the upper class black women will not want them and will remain single. That means the only women these men are going to get with are hoodrats. Then they produce more hoodrat babies that can go to jail and that keeps America employed. It's good for the economy.

In the meantime, the upper class black women remain single - that means no upper class college bound black folks. Or they get with white men and that means you have a separate class of people that actually turn out better than regular ol class of black folks.


oh... did I say dat? :gossip: :rain:

i beg to differ....i don't consider mutantlattos real blacks and what do you mean by better?

as for this youngman's unfortunate trials with Amerikkka's injustice system...i'm just happy to know he got out within that same year and not 30 years down the line like so many other innocent brothers though if innocent he really should think of taking legal action.
 

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