The Glade 4.0

Black judge rejects plea deal for 'white boy'
Says three months of probation for fighting with a cop is 'ridiculous'

PITTSBURGH — A black judge from western Pennsylvania rejected a plea agreement for a man accused of fighting with police during a traffic stop, saying it was "a ridiculous plea that only goes to white boys."

The plea agreement was for a sentence of three months probation. Allegheny County Judge Joseph Williams said on Tuesday that a black defendant in that situation would not have been treated as leniently.

In court, Williams told Assistant District Attorney Brian Catanzarite that he "for some reason comes up with I think ridiculous pleas whenever it's a young white guy," according to The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "I'm just telling you what my observation is. If this had been a black kid who did the same thing, we wouldn't be talking about three months' probation."

Catanzarite responded that he was standing in for another prosecutor and didn't broker the plea deal.

"Now that the court has essentially called me a racist, I think that's unfair. I don't make offers based on race. I make offers based on facts," Catanzarite said, according to the Tribune-Review.

Williams later recused himself from the case, and a white judge accepted the plea agreement for 24-year-old Jeffery McGowan.

The defendant, who had no criminal record, agreed to plead guilty to disorderly conduct. He had faced charges including aggravated assault.

Williams' secretary on Wednesday told The Associated Press the judge does not give interviews.

The Allegheny County district attorney's office did not immediately return a call for comment Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Mike Manko, a spokesman for the district attorney's office, told the Tribune-Review the plea deal was appropriate and agreed to by the officer, who was not injured.

"Negotiated pleas are never based on the race of a particular defendant but rather on the behavior of the defendant and the facts associated with that behavior," Manko told the newspaper.

"The assistant district attorneys who handled this plea on behalf of the commonwealth have outstanding reputations, and we firmly stand behind their integrity and the integrity of all of our prosecutors."

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You know, Micheal, I don't think so. Even if he's right, "affirmative action" has no place on the bench.

However, if this is ole boy's 4th time getting caught fighting with the cops, evidently he is not getting the message and doesn't need any more plea deals.

Then... you do not even need court. You need an off button for the camera, a phone book and a police baton.

Then... you do not even need court. You need an off button for the camera, a phone book and a police baton.

Based on my experience with cops, I'm sure the aggravated assault was nothing more than shoving a cop's hand off him or pushing back a cop that was in his face. Aggravated assault sounds like a big deal, but most of the time anything argumenative at all brings out the meathead in them.

In most cases, any sort of assault on a police officer is some sort of aggravated or felonious assault just because the victim is a police officer.. or corrections officer, firefighter, postal worker, etc. It has nothing to do with "bringing out the meathead"; you can't assume they charged something ridiculous from the name of the statute.

No, what I'm getting at is that with the typical meathead officer, of which there are very many some, any disagreement and they get all handsy, and love to get in your face. Touching them at all is "aggravated assault", which is a load of horseshit. So, while I don't know the details of this case, I suspect it was something along these lines.

Fixed.

When you're close enough to touch a cop, that's dangerous. He doesn't know you or what you might be planning to do.

/shrug

Extrapolating my experiences, it would be 100% of city cops, 90% of county cops, 10% of state cops, 0% of federal cops (park rangers and MPs).

I would argue that yes, he does, which is why he's in your face and touching you. He wants you to push him back or brush his hand away. That's the motivation for being in your face.

How bout just not being a douchebag to the cops?

That's funny that you assume that.