[NYPOST] "Overzealous" legal backlash over the Carlee Russell kidnapping hoax came only because a Black woman was at the center of it, The Atlantic writer Jemele Hill tweeted.
After it was found that Russell, a 24-year-old nursing student, had fabricated the story of her abduction, coppers filed two misdemeanor charges against the Alabama woman.
State politicians are also seeking to increase the penalties for faking a kidnapping.
Through her X (formerly known as Twitter) account, Hill called these efforts "overzealous" actions taken because of Russell’s race, claiming the same thing would not have happened if she was White.
"She’s already been charged and will likely have to pay restitution. Zero problem with that. What I’m saying is, this politician is being overzealous because the Black woman was at the center of this hoax. I promise you had she been a white woman, nobody would be introducing a law to strengthen the laws about lying to the cops," Hill wrote.
After facing pushback, Hill continued to argue that a White woman would not inspire new laws like Russell.
"Ok, I’ll play along, where the Susan Smith law in North Carolina? Where are the laws that strengthen lying to police when we have seen white women continually lie when they call the police on Black people for just existing in the spaces they don’t want us in? A white woman just lied in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, about being kidnapped by two Latino people and it turns out she’d spent 3 weeks with an old boyfriend ... where’s the new law?" she wrote.
After it was found that Russell, a 24-year-old nursing student, had fabricated the story of her abduction, coppers filed two misdemeanor charges against the Alabama woman.
State politicians are also seeking to increase the penalties for faking a kidnapping.
Through her X (formerly known as Twitter) account, Hill called these efforts "overzealous" actions taken because of Russell’s race, claiming the same thing would not have happened if she was White.
"She’s already been charged and will likely have to pay restitution. Zero problem with that. What I’m saying is, this politician is being overzealous because the Black woman was at the center of this hoax. I promise you had she been a white woman, nobody would be introducing a law to strengthen the laws about lying to the cops," Hill wrote.
After facing pushback, Hill continued to argue that a White woman would not inspire new laws like Russell.
"Ok, I’ll play along, where the Susan Smith law in North Carolina? Where are the laws that strengthen lying to police when we have seen white women continually lie when they call the police on Black people for just existing in the spaces they don’t want us in? A white woman just lied in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, about being kidnapped by two Latino people and it turns out she’d spent 3 weeks with an old boyfriend ... where’s the new law?" she wrote.