Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, the actress who played a cold-blooded killer of the same name on the HBO series The Wire, was arrested on minor drug charges yesterday after police picked her up for refusing to cooperate as a witness in a murder trial, records show.Although, when you read the story, it really says more about the cops than it says about Felicia Pearson.
Members of the homicide unit forced entry into the 28-year-old's Northeast Baltimore home Wednesday morning to serve a "body attachment" warrant, which would allow authorities to detain her, if necessary, until the Sept. 16 murder trial of Steven James Lashley.
« And it gets iller | Main | Because it's Friday » Life after The Wire22 Aug 2008 02:32 pm
Simmer Snoop. Simmer:
Comments (18)Comments on this entry have been closed. |
Today's Headlines From The Atlantic |
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
Copyright © 2009 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved.
So she had a couple blunts rolled up and some shake sitting on her cabinet. Just being prepared.
All that story tells me about the cops is that they got a good collar. If your problem is with the policy of issuing warrants of arrest for murder witnesses that is a separate issue having to do with the law and not the police officers who are enforcing it.
The story actually tells me a whole lot about Snoop Pearson. It tells me that she was a scumbag drug dealer and a murderer. I would wager that the person she murdered, and the majority of those that she sold poison to, were black. So I am wondering why you chose to attack the police officers rather than the drug-dealing murderer (or maybe I misunderstand you and what you are actually saying is that the cops properly executed a warrant, but I doubt that).
That being said, I enjoy Snoop's acting. And if her bad deeds are indeed behind her, I am willing to forgive.
I understand that marijuana is much more harmful to African-Americans than it is to White Folk. As such, she should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
It's for her own good and the good of the community.
We cannot allow the War on Drugs to fail the way we allowed Prohibition to fail back in the 30's!
(Oh, I should probably point out that that was a post mocking the absolute insanity portrayed by laborlibert rather than a post posted earnestly)
All the trolls are out in force tonight.
What exactly about my post was insane?
If you can refute my point go ahead and do it Jaybird. Your sarcasm is not very persuasive.
Cops don't control whether possessing marijuana is illegal. I certainly don't think it should be. But you can't bitch about them doing their job.
As for Snoop. She knew that possession was illegal, and if she has a competent lawyer, which she likely does, she knew that she was already subject to arrest. She could have used a little intelligence and not had weed scattered about the house. That's just stupid.
Lastly, if you read my post and the article, you know that my characterization of Snoop as a drug dealer and a murderer had nothing to do with her weed possession, but her admitted prior history of having dealt drugs (likely not weed) and murdered someone. These are not disputed facts.
But I must be an insane troll because I don't agree with your neat liberal world where cops are always evil and blacks are above reproach regardless of what they have done. That is the kind of unreasonable position that holds back meaningful racial dialogue.
You don't have to be a neat liberal to see how The War On Drugs is analagous to Prohibition 2.0 and you're talking about the cops busting someone's door down for the equivalent of bootlegging beer.
The automatic assumption that anyone who might disagree with you holds a particular worldview tells me that I've miscategorized you. You're not insane. You're just another religious zealot.
Maybe when everyone on the planet who doesn't agree with you is finally in jail (or dead), maybe everything will finally be the way it was meant to from the beginning.
Now I'm a religious zealot? For your information the best characterization of my religion is barely Catholic, but I don't even see how this is relevant. I don't want anyone to be in jail, or dead. Where are you getting all of this ish from? Certainly not my comments.
I really wish that you would respond on substance rather then repeatedly trying to put me into a neat little category that you can then dismiss out of hand.
As for your only substantive point, that marijauna prohibition is akin to alcohol prohibition, I don't disagree. My personal use of both drugs tells me that alcohol is far more harmful, and as I said before I don't think marijauana should be illegal. But it is, and you can't blame the cops for that.
I didn't say "theist". I said "religious zealot".
If your response to that story is "hey, the law is the law, besides, that's a bad person right there", you've got some fairly religous premises.
Even if theism has nothing to do with them.
The Wire writers issued a statement a while back urging that anyone who is on a jury where a defendant is being tried on drug charges should vote "Not Guilty," regardless of the "facts." I plan on doing this if I ever get the opportunity. If anyone I know is on such a jury I'll urge them to do the same.
The Completely Insane War On Drugs is so far out of hand that this measure is necessary.
Oh, and laborlibert - your blind obeisance to authority is a very sad thing to see.
I'd say the problem with your post isn't even the fact that you think "two cigars containing suspected marijuana in an upstairs bedroom, and "loose plant material"" count as a "good collar" - it's that you labeled someone a "scumbag" for crimes committed when they were FOURTEEN.
It completely disavows all possibility of redemption.
I actually think that my minority opinion on this board shows me to be a non-conformist, and you all to be very orthodox (read conformist) liberals. But this is not important and I would suggest that all of us, including me, stop attempting to pigeon-hole eachother into categories that are probably ill-fitting because we know very little about eachother.
Back to substance, no one has addressed the disconnect here. Cops do not right laws, they enforce them. Marijuana is illegal, for better or worse, it is the police officer's duty therefore, to enforce the law and arrest violators. I don't think there is anything especially surprising or conformist about this view, and I am growing tired of explaining it.
And one more thing, if you murder someone, or sell heroine or crack, I don't care how old you are, you are at best, a scumbag. Heroine especially is an evil drug. I hope that you have never witnessed its effects. Again Ishiki, if you read my first post, I used these descriptions in the past tense, and explicitly said that redemption was both a possible and the preferred outcome (I said: "That being said, I enjoy Snoop's acting. And if her bad deeds are indeed behind her, I am willing to forgive.").
Laborlibert, sometimes the fact that everyone disagrees with your could be seen as an indicator that you are, in fact, wrong.
And how in the hell is this "Liberal"?
Remember Biden? He's the guy who came up with the "Drug Czar" in the first place. Saying "Hey, let's do a 21st Amendment wrt The Drug War" is *NOT* a liberal position.
Liberals are terrified of being painted as "soft on crime" and so are behind some of the most draconian drug laws out there... for the good of the children, of course.
When their kids get caught doing it, however, that's another story. Oh, and when Barack Obama comes out and says "yeah, I totally did drugs back when I was younger", the response tends to not be "well, he should have been sent to prison for a handful of years for the sake of the children" but something akin to "well, it's not folks like him who are the problem so it's cool that he broke the law and was not caught".
So keep up your War On Drugs and be surprised that people are drinking gin, vodka, and whiskey in the speakeasies rather than beer or wine.
And keep calling people who disagree with you "liberal" even as you give more and more and more power to law enforcement and the government.
Hey, maybe if we gave the cops rocket launchers, they'd be able to finally win the War!
Jaybird:
You really have nothing do you. You've managed to misrepresent all of my positions in a barely coherent rant.
You again try to categorize me as some sort of arch-conservative. I'm not. I tend to be more libertarian and therefore I tend to support Democrats. In fact, I have dedicated my life's work to something that I think we would all agree is a Progressive cause.
You say that I support draconian drug laws, I don't, which would would see if you would actually read my previous posts. I have alrady said that I think weed should be legal. To go further I think that most drugs should be legal, with some exceptions (I have a personal and deep hatred of heroine).
That does not mean that I think police officers should not enforce the law as they are required, a point that you continue to skirt around. I have broken the law by possessing drugs in the past. Through some combination of luck and intelligence I managed to never get arrested. But if I did, I certainly wouldn't have blamed the cop who was doing his, very difficult and under-appreciated, job of enforcing the law.
The fact that no one agrees with me here is no surprise. The opinions on this blog tend to be skewed toward one political perspective that I do not usually share.
If you happen to encounter someone who disagrees vigorously with your position and your first inclination is to call them "Liberal", guess what?
If you read a story about Nanny Statism gone amok and your first inclination is to take the side of the Government, guess what?
And to come out and say "I tend to be more libertarian and therefore I tend to support Democrats."
Yeah, that's why your original post was one pointing out that Snoop Pearson was a scumbag.
I'm surprised that Bush's Big Government Conservativism doesn't appeal more to you. Using the power of the state to make us all better people... How Progressive!
You have gone too far off topic and made this about me rather than the issue. It's time to say ya basta my friend. I hope we can agree on some other topic in the future.
See it as a reflection of reading that story and coming to the conclusion that "she was a scumbag drug dealer and a murderer."
Knowing when to shut your mouth comes with a level of maturity that you haven't reached yet. Part of me hopes you learn it the hard way.