Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Meet Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet, masked up and ready to hold court

 


Daily Advertiser, 12/14/2021
Multiple people were recorded using a racist slur in a video over the weekend, which the judge confirmed was taken at her home following a failed burglary attempt early Saturday morning. 
The video does not show any of the speakers heard during the clip, but multiple voices repeatedly say “n-----” while watching footage of the attempted burglary. 
"Mom's yelling, n-----, n-----," a male voice says, recounting the incident while watching the security footage. 
"We have a n-----. It's a n-----, like a roach," a female voice adds.

Related reading:

Talk Poverty, 1/9/2020
The predominantly Black River Parishes along the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge are overrun with over 150 plants and refineries. This area was once dubbed Cancer Alley by residents and media because of the clusters of cancer patients in the area. Now residents are calling it Death Alley because of the significant amount of deaths by cancer and other illnesses among the residents who live near the industrial pollution. 
“You put poison in the land, water and in the air, the result is sickness and death. The planned killing of any group is genocide,” Pat Bryant, the son of sharecroppers and a resident of New Orleans, said frankly. Bryant started Justice and Beyond in 2012 as a response to social and environmental injustice along the Louisiana parishes.

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