Cenk Uygur
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World’s Most Adorable Drug Kingpin
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December 1, 2015
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4:35Now PlayingA 19 year old in Texas has been arrested for drug possession. Her time in jail was short, because she had a very low bail. The woman’s father is a DEA agent, and she is being referred to as “adorable.” Critics say she is getting special treatment not afforded to most charged of similar crimes. Ana Kasparian (The Point) and John Iadarola (Think Tank) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“By now everyone knows of 19-year-old Sarah Furay of College Station, Texas, whose smiling mugshot went viral via several news blogs — including our own, in which we admittedly refer to her as an “adorable drug kingpin” — after she was arrested for alleged possession and delivery of 31.5 grams of cocaine, 126 grams of high-grade marijuana, 29 tablets of Ecstasy, an undisclosed amount of methamphetamine and 60 hits of LSD. The Black Lives Matter movement, among other criminal justice activists, called out the hypocrisy of the media’s lighthearted approach to Furay’s arrest. And for good reason.
Why? As mentioned in our letter of apology for our flippant coverage of Furay’s arrest, you don’t see 19-year-old men and women of color described in reports as “cute” or “adorable.” For that matter, you don’t see them smiling in mugshots. One needn’t wonder why. The criminal justice system and mainstream media are fixed in favor of profiles such as that of a lily-white, college-age girl — and particularly Furay. New information brought to the attention of Death and Taxes reveals that Furay’s father is Bill Furay, a supervisory special agent for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. He is currently serving as the DEA’s diplomatic attaché at the U.S. Ambassador’s office in Panama City, Panama, and was previously Resident Agent in Charge at the DEA office in Galveston, Texas.”
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