Hi ,
Please read an important email from our partner below.
Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson recently filed a motion to have four juveniles tried as adults. We need to move quickly. These young people will go before a judge in 3 days. We need to send a very clear message to DA Faith Johnson - Black children are not disposable.
You can help by taking two easy steps :
- Read the email below and sign the petition.
- Text KIDS to 225568 to receive live photo updates by text message as we deliver your signature at Faith Johnson's office in Dallas. We'll be delivering these petition signatures directly to Faith Johnson tomorrow at 10 am.
Until justice is real,
Scott, Rashad, Arisha, Erika, Clarise, Marybeth, Leonard, Siera, Anay, Kristen, Marena, Tamar and the rest of the Color Of Change team
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Dear friend,
Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson recently filed a motion to have children young tried as adults, simply because rich community members asked her. This is unacceptable.
District Attorney Faith Johnson formalized racial prejudice when she agreed to pursue adult charges against four Black juveniles because a racist mob demanded it. The decision to prosecute these children as adults was made not because of their crime or their histories, but because a merciless mob demanded that she give voice to their bias. As Dallas County’s elected District Attorney, Faith Johnson has an obligation to protect all of our children from hate—whether by violent police officers or racist community members.
This country has no compassion for Black kids, especially when they make mistakes.Trying children as adults is inhumane. These children need services, not prison.
DA Faith Johnson will seek to try four teens accused of car theft and robbery as adults after the victims demanded “aggressive” retribution and organized more than two thousand people in Dallas around one goal : trying and locking up children as adults.
Vengeance doesn't work as a criminal justice policy. It will not make our community safer. We know that kids tried as adults are more likely to commit new crimes, commit them more frequently, and commit more violent offenses than kids treated like the kids they are. Children are fundamentally different from adults. Research shows that kids who commit even serious crimes can and frequently do grow out of intransigent behavior as their brains mature.
DA Johnson’s decision is not about justice or community safety. It is about obeying those who have the power and social capital to demand we throw away the lives of children. If these children were rich or white, would the outrage be as swift and the demands so damning ?
It is District Attorney Faith Johnson’s job to recognize and follow the course of action that protects everyone and best serves the interest of our community, not to respond to the demands of her rich constituents at the expense of black children.
D.A. Johnson must do her job and take a principled, common-sense approach to community safety, one that treats children like children. We demand that DA Johnson withdraw her motion to transfer these children to adult court.
Sincerely,
Joe Estelle, Texas Organizing Project
Color Of Change is building a movement to elevate the voices of Black folks and our allies, and win real social and political change. Help keep our movement strong.
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