Marcia Meoli: A tale of 2 women wrongfully persecuted
Marcia Meoli
Local leaders and some voters have expressed opposition to the arrest and other treatment of Marlena Pavlos-Hackney by the state and local health authorities. As I see this, I think about other people and their interactions with law enforcement and arrest. I am thinking particularly of Sandra Bland, a woman who spent about the same amount of time in jail than Marlena did.
Sandra Bland was a Black woman driving in Texas in July 2015. An officer stopped her after he followed her closely on the road. She made a lane change to allow him to go ahead, thinking he was pursuing another vehicle or situation. He was not. He was tailgating her and, after the lane change, pulled her over. The stated reason for the stop had something to do with the technicalities of how to make lane changes in Texas. After the stop, the officer got into an verbal exchange with Bland. The officer demanded that Bland put out her ciga
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On Dec. 6, 2020, The Sentinel reported about a lawsuit filed against Gov. Whitmer trying to overturn the Michigan presidential election results. The plaintiffs stated that Zeeland Township reported four times the number of votes than the amount of ballots cast in that election. The statements were absolutely false.The rest of the article explained in detail what our county clerk, a Republican, said to explain the open process of conducting elections here in Ottawa County. Every precinct was in
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