#lakeith smith

[welcome-to-arthropodsociety]

Free LaKeith Smith

Vice's Documentary About LaKeith:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFjFze39Dcc

(would not let me embed because it is age restricted)

Link to LaKeith Smith's Gofundme:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-bring-my-son-lakeith-home?utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined In 2015, LaKeith Smith was charged for the murder of his friend A'Donte Washington, who was shot by a police officer. LaKeith was 15, and charged as an adult. He was sentenced to 55 years, for a crime he did not commit. For 8 years his family has been fighting to free him while he has grown from child, to adult in prison. During the 2020 George Floyd protests, they were able to hire a new attorney with the money raised from LaKeith's Change.org page.

On December 2nd, 2022, LaKeith will be attending a post conviction hearing. This may be the only chance he has to escape imprisonment for the rest of his life.

Please, watch Vice's documentary about LaKeith and A'Donte.

If you live in Alabama, please contact your DA, there is a pre-written email and link to the DA's email in the above link.

If you live anywhere else, please sign LaKeith's Change.org. That is in the above link as well.

LaKeith should be living his life right now, he should be spending time with his family and loved ones, he should not be behind bars. Please, help him.

UPDATE (2/12/2024)

On March 21 2023, Judge Sibley Reynolds re-sentenced LaKeith Smith to a total sentence of 30 years. Since then, his family and friends have been working relentlessly to free him.

Recently the Alabama attorney general's office agreed that judge Reynolds' order was confusing, misleading and hard to understand,

SO, WITHIN 30 DAYS OF JANUARY 23 2024 LAKEITH IS EXPECTED TO RECEIVE A COURT DATE FROM THE ALABAMA COURT OF APPEALS.

Please spread the word, LaKeith is so close to being able to live his life. Here is the official Free LaKeith Smith Instagram page which is run by his Mother and updated frequently:

https://www.instagram.com/justice4lakeithsmith/ Here is the linktree with ways you can help:

https://linktr.ee/freelakeith

#LaKeith Smith #A'Donte Washington #Black lives matter #Blm #Human rights #activism #Petition #police brutality #The industrial prison complex #YouTube #Vice #Documentary #social issues #Social justice #Youtube #industrial prison complex

[quacklish]

Please read this and share!

"LaKeith Smith could spend the rest of his life in an Alabama prison  for murder, despite not killing anyone.  

The case of LaKeith Smith urgently deserves our attention because there  is a chance his conviction could be overturned or his sentence reduced. 

Background 

In February of 2015, LaKeith–who was 15 years old at the time–and  a group of friends were involved in the break-ins of two unoccupied  homes in Millbrook, Alabama. The teens were still present in one of the  homes when local police officers arrived at the scene. During that en counter, LaKeith’s 16-year-old friend A’Donte Washington was shot and  killed by one of the officers. 

Although he was the youngest in the group, LaKeith was denied  being tried as a juvenile and was charged as an adult. He was convict ed of theft, burglary, and felony murder–a charge that held him legally  responsible for the death of A’Donte. Alabama’s felony murder rule states: 

A person commits the crime of murder if he/she commits or attempts to commit [a felony] and, in the course of and in furtherance of the crime that he/she is committing or attempting to commit, or in immediate flight therefrom, he/she, or another participant if there be any, causes the death of any person.

Despite A’Donte not being killed by a participant in the crime, LaKeith  lost his friend and now faces losing the next 50 years of his life to prison. 

Take Action 

Unless court officials allow him a new hearing, LaKeith will remain  in prison until he is 70 years old.  

LaKeith’s punishment does not fit the crime he committed or his legal  responsibility. It also doesn’t reflect his young age or his unique capacity for change. He was sentenced to 15 years for the burglary charge and 10 years for each of the two theft of property charges, but it was the 30-year sentence for the felony murder charge that ensured LaKeith–a non-violent 15-year-old with no prior record–would essentially spend  the rest of his life in prison.  

Condemning a 15-year-old child who hasn’t killed anyone to a life  behind bars is not justice. His story deserves to be heard. Help us  spread the word about LaKeith’s case."

Sign the petition at:

Justice for Lakeith Smith's social handles (follow for more information, updates as well as d0nate to the campaign!)

Website:

Instagram: @Justice4LaKeithSmith

Twitter: @Justice4LaKeith

Facebook: @Justice4LaKeithSmith.

#Justice4LakeithSmith #JusticeForLakeithSmith #' #JusticeForLakeith #Lakeith Smith #Justice For Lakeith Smith #black lives matter #signal boost

[astasolijla]

TRUE story

#free lakeith #abolish the police #stop cop city #black lives matter #defend the atlanta forest #lakeith smith #justice for breonna #justice for Valentina #Instagram

[emelinet]

say their name.

Akai Gurley. Tamir Rice. Rumain Brisbon. Tanisha Anderson. Bettie Jones. Jason Washington. Robert White. Botham Jean. Ronald Greene. Sterling Higgins. Cameron Lamb. Steven Taylor. George Floyd. Dion Johnson. Keenan Anderson. Keshawn Thomas. Jayland Walker. Christopher Kelley. Donnell Rochester. Jason Walker. Alvin Motley Jr. Ryan Leroux. Latoya Denise James. Winston Smith. Ma'khia Bryant. Jenoah Donald. A'donte Washington.

no justice, no peace.

#say their names #blm #activism #speak out #tamir rice #petition #call to action #lakeith smith #justice #no justice no peace

[gwydionmisha]

#LaKeith Smith #Police Murder #Injustice System #News

[positivebeatdigest]

#lakeith smith #65 years #Youtube

[imgonnagetkilledbynutstink]

On my third relisten of TMA and these are my Graham Folger and Oliver Banks please be nice to them

#the fact that they where together is my roman empire #still my favorite fact about the show probably #tma #the magnus archives #graham folger #cory michael smith #cms #oliver banks #lakeith stanfield

[cozyaliensuperstar7]

Beautiful Black People 👑

strongblacklead:

Some of our SBL fav's were outside serving lewks this weekend 😍

thesherylleeralph:

The Academy Museum Gala…A night that sparkled✨Makeup by @marquiswardbeauty Hair by @therealritabe Dress by @csiriano Styling by @jlynnstyle18

tarajiphenson:

#aboutlastnight at the #academygala #academymuseum 💜💜💜🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💋💋💋

kilprity:

D a n a i • G u r i r a || @danaigurira

Glam yesterday for #AcademyMuseumGala #MakeupByKilprity #ItsServed🍽️

tarajiphenson:

Black excellence…that’s it that’s the caption

tasiaworld:

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” - @oprah

📸: @sonejr

tasiaworld:

Thank You @academymuseum for an amazing evening at the #academymuseumgala2023.

tasiaworld:

A rose in the middle of the garden. 🌹 @criticschoice 📸: @sonejr

tasiaworld:

They knock me down Nine times, but I get up Ten! @elleusa Women in Hollywood 💜.

📸: @sonejr

#keke palmer #sterling k. brown #ryan michelle bathe #danielle brooks #angela bassett #coleman domingo #taraji p. henson #jodie turner smith #tracee ellis ross #lakeith stanfield #sheryl lee ralph #laura harrier #fantasia barrino taylor #danai gurira #beautiful black people

[geekcavepodcast]

Haunted Mansion Trailer

A “woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.” (Walt Disney Studios)

Inspired by the theme park attraction, Disney’s Haunted Mansion is directed by Justin Simien. The film stars LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Chase W. Dillon, Dan Levy, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Jared Leto.

Haunted Mansion is coming to theaters on July 28, 2023.

#haunted mansion #lakeith stanfield #tiffany haddish #owen wilson #danny devito #rosario dawson #chase w dillon #dan levy #jamie lee curtis #jared leto #justin smith #disney #hatbox ghost #TGCLiz

[altcastingcouch]

#the incredibles #john cena #kerry washington #zendaya #jaden smith #nico parker #timothée chalamet #lakeith stanfield #indya moore

[ruleof3bobby]

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (1947) Grade: B

The more I soak on this film, the more I like it. The casting is obviously good. The script really was clever, interwinds a lot smoothly.

#Judas and the Black Messiah #1947 #B #Based on a True Story #Shaka King #History #Biography #FBI #Black Panther Party #Fred Hampton #LaKeith Stanfield #Daniel Kaluuya #Jesse Plemons #Dominique Fishback #Ashton Sanders #Algee Smith #Lil Rel Howery #Martin Sheen #Darrell Britt-Gibson #Dominique Thorne #Amari Cheatom #Khris Davis #Caleb Eberhardt #Ian Duff #Amber Chardae Robinson #Robert Longstreet #Ikechukwu Ufomadu #James Udom #Chicago #Watch This

[astasolijla]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cr_o3k2tL-t/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

“Everyday should be Lakeith Smith day until he gets to come home” 👏👏👏 ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

#free lakeith #abolish the police #lakeith smith

[allamericansbitch]

based on this thread, here is a list of famous people who have supported johnny depp and/or made fun of amber heard. fuck all of them:

Aly & AJ

Alissa Violet (Influencer)

Anitta

Ann Coulter

Ashley Benson

Ashley Park (actress from Emily in Paris)

Auli'i Cravalho (actress from Moana)

Bailey Muñoz

Bella Hadid

Ben Shapiro

Booboo Stewart

Chase Hudson (Lil Huddy)

Chase Stokes (actor from Outer Banks)

China McClaine

Chris Rock

Cierra Ramirez (actress from The Fosters/Good Trouble)

Cody Simpson

Connor Swindells (adam groff on sex education)

Cazzie David

Critical Role

Dakota Fanning

Dakota Johnson

Daniel Ricciardo

Diana Silvers

Dillion Francis (DJ)

Dominic Fike

Dove Cameron

Elle King

Emma Roberts

Florence Pugh

Gabby Douglas

Gemma Chan

Halle Bailey

Henry Golding

Ian Somerhalder

Jaime King

Jamie Campbell Bower

Javier Bardem

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Coolidge

Jeremy Renner

Jessie J

JK Rowling

Joe Perry (Aerosmith)

JoJo Siwa

Jordan Fisher

Julian Kostov (actor from Shadow & Bone)

Justin Long

Kali Uchis

Kat Von D

Kelly Osbourne

Kelsea Ballerini

Kyle Rittenhouse

LaKeith Stanfield

Lance Bass

Lennon Stella

Lewis Tan

Lucy Hale

Madelyn Cline (actress from Outer Banks)

Maren Morris

Matthias Schoenaerts

Michael Clifford (of 5 Seconds of Summer)

Molly Shanon

Nicholas Braun

Norman Reedus

Nyane (popular instagram model)

Olivia Jade

Paige (from WWE)

Paris Hilton

Patti Smith

Paul Bettany

Paul McCartney

Penelope Cruz

Perrie Edwards

Phillip Barantini (director of Boiling Point)

Pokimane (Twitch Streamer)

Reeve Carney

Robert Downey Jr

Rian Dawson (Drummer of All Time Low)

Riley Keough

Rita Ora

Ryan Adams

Sam Claflin

Samantha Hanratty (actress from Yellowjackets)

Samuel Larsen

Seth Savoy (Director)

Shannen Doherty

Sharon Stone

Sia

SNL cast and writers

Sofia Boutella

Sophie Turner

Stella Maxwell

Tammin Sursok

Taika Waititi

Tony Lopez

Upsahl

Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Morgan

Vanessa Paradis

Vincent Gallo

Yungblud

Zachary Levi

Zedd

Zoe Saldana

Zoey Deutch

People who publicly support Amber:

Aiysha Hart 

Alex Winter

Alexa Nikolas (actress from Zoey 101)

Amanda Seyfried

Amy Schumer

Anna Sophia Robb

Bianca Butti (Amber's ex)

Busy Philipps

Chace Crawford

Chloe Morello

Christina Ricci

Constance Wu

Contrapoints/Natalie Wynn

Corey Rae

Dana Schwartz (journalist and writer)

David Krumholtz

Dolph Lundgren

Edward Norton

Elizabeth Lail (actress who played Beck from you)

Elizabeth McGovern

Elizaberh Reaser (Esmé in Twilight)

Ellen Barkin

Emeraude Toubia (actress from Shadowhunters and With Love)

Emily Ratajkowski

Evan Rachel Wood

Finneas

Howard Stern

Ira Madison III

Jamelle Bouie (NYT columnist)

Jessica Taylor, Dr

Jon Lovett (podcaster & former White House speech writer & fiance of Ronan Farrow)

John Legend

Julia Fox

Julia Stiles

Julianne Moore

Kate Nash (singer, actress from Glow)

Kathy Griffin

Kristen Bell

Lauren Jauregui

Lena Headey

Lindsay Ellis (YouTuber)

Lindsay Lohan

Lindsey Gort

Mia Farrow

Michele Dauber (Stanford law professor)

Millie Brady (actress in The Last Kingdom)

Mel B

Melanie Lynskey

Melissa Benoist

Monica Lewinsky

Nathalie Emmanuel (actress on Game of Thrones)

Neil Gaiman (writer of Caroline, American Gods, Good Omens, etc.)

Nikki Glaser (comedian)

Patricia Arquette

Rachel Riley

Raphael Bob-Waksberg (creator of Bojack Horseman)

Robin Lord Taylor

Rian Johnson (director of Knives Out)

Ryn Weaver (singer)

Samantha Bee (comedian)

Sarah Paulson

Sarah Steele

Selma Blair 

Sophia Bush

Uzo Aduba

Willa Fitzgerald

Zach Kornfeld (from the Try Guys)

#tp #amber heard #johnny depp #heard v depp

[cosmal]

I saw you’re always talking about your marauders fancasts. I need to know who you fancast for all of them! Only if you want :)!

okay okay thank u for this question ur amazing. i edit on tik tok so im very passionate about my fancasts so sorry for the tangent im about to go on!!!! also so sorry if any of this is spelt wrong im tired :)

.｡*ﾟ+.forourmoons marauders era fancasts

reiky de valk as james potter

i mean look at him!!!!!!!! the personality for sure <3 so pretty !!!!!!! i always see james as brown! always! maybe firmer <3 softer <3

also ! dev patel as james potter

are you serious??? yes!!!! the glasses holy moly. the curls!!!! yeahhhh

matt hitt as remus lupin

esp rockstar!remus! because…..he’s a literal rockstar. ughhhh. the hair!!! the vibes!!!! yes.

also ! lakeith stanfield as remus lupin

this is so new to me and I talk about it here all the time but yes oh my god??????? look!!!!!!!

eren m. guvercin as sirius black

are you kidding???? the hair?? the eyes??? just the feminity as well!!! ugh yes.

conan gray as sirius black

be fr be fr rn!!!!!! look at them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck! that's sirius??? eren and him are very rockstar!sirius coded like. this is mainly looks wise, they definitely don’t share the same personality.

brian tyree henry as peter pettigrew

also saw this the other day and became so obsessed ???!!! he's so pete!!! a lot of people were saying he's too old but so are the og fancasts ! like shush that is peter

savannah smith as lily evans

her on the new gg??? i haven’t seen it but she seems so lily! uhhhh let me have a moment! she's also new but tt always have the best fancasts usually idc

also ! annalise basso as lily evans

she's def one of my favs! her smile ahhhhh!!!! the hair ugh yeahhhhh

sofia bryant as mary macdonald

she is exacty how I see mary in my head. the hair! the personality holy!!!!! shes so pretty

okay my others will be in part two! because I'm having fun dumping them all in one place

#marauders era fancast #fancasts #marauder fancast #the marauders #marauder era #harry potter

[weclassybouquetfun]

Day One of CinemaCon is done, deaded, over!

The slate was pretty much as I expected sans any info on Dakota Johnson's MADAME WEB.

-Jennifer Lawrence was on hand to tout her sex comedy NO HARD FEELINGS.

-Denzel Washington and his MAN ON FIRE costar Dakota Fanning talked their reunion project, EQUALIZER 3.

-Also in a reunion project is Joaquin Phoenix and his GLADIATOR director Ridley Scott. Footage from Scott's NAPOLEON - starring Phoenix, was shown. As part of Sony's deal with Apple+ it will have have a sturdy theatrical run before going to the streamer.

-Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, McKenna Grace and Finn Wolfhard- clad in Ghostbusters uniform - sent a set video message from their not-as-yet named sequel of GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE.

-Martin Lawrence and Will Smith sent a video message from set of BAD BOYS 4.

-Whether they're really playing in Glen Powell's girlfriend's face or just trying to drum up press for their l'il movie, Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney were on hand to promote their rom-com ANYONE BUT YOU.

-There was extended footage of GRAN TURISMO starring Orlando Bloom and David Harbour.

-Also on video was Aaron Taylor-Johnson to tease footage from his starring vehicle KRAVEN THE HUNTER. It will be the first Sony Marvel film with an R rating. Confirmed for the film? Alessandro Nivola is playing Rhino.

-Fourteen minutes of SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE was screened. The animated film takes place a year post SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE.

Other Sony films promoted: the Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, Sam Heughan (and bewilderingly, Celine Dion) romance LOVE AGAIN, KNIGHTS OF THE ZODIAC starring Mackenyu, Sean Bean and Famke Janssen, the dark comedy THE MACHINE, the John Cho and Katherine Waterson fronted horror film THEY LISTEN, the all-star biblical film THE BOOK OF CLARENCE starring LaKeith Stanfield as the title character who is trying to capitalize on the rise of the Messiah. The film also stars RJ Cyler, Mame-Anna Diop, Omar Sy, David OyelewoBenedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy and others and INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR which will be directed by INSIDIOUS star Patrick Wilson and also marks the return of Ty Simpkins to the franchise.

#cinemacon #sony pictures #spider man across the spider verse #insidious the red door #insidious 5 #ty simpkins #bad boys #marvel #kraven the hunter #aaron taylor johnson #gran turismo #sydney sweeney #glen powell #movies #denzel washington #dakota fanning #film #joaquin phoenix #jennifer lawrence #no hard feelings

[fiercestpurpose]

According to Guyora Binder, of the University at Buffalo School of Law, the modern felony-murder doctrine is best understood as “a distinctly American innovation.” Although it was first applied early in the nineteenth century, use of the charge surged in the nineteen-seventies, when the era of mass incarceration began. Fifty years later, Binder contends, no country relies on the doctrine more. In Tulsa, two men attempted to steal some copper wire from a radio tower and accidentally electrocuted themselves. One of them died and the other was charged with first-degree murder while recovering from his burns in the hospital; the girlfriend of the deceased was also charged with murder, for having driven them to the tower. In Topeka, a twenty-two-year-old made the mistake of hiding his gun atop his girlfriend’s refrigerator; he was charged with first-degree murder several days later, when a child inadvertently fired it at a thirteen-year-old girl. In Minneapolis, a sixteen-year-old girl who sat in the car while two older men killed someone in a robbery was charged with felony murder. Deemed too young to enter the adult prison population after her conviction, she was placed in solitary confinement for months, purportedly for her own safety. In Somerville, Tennessee, last May, three teen-age girls overdosed on fentanyl in their high school’s parking lot before a graduation ceremony. Two of them died, and the surviving girl was charged with murder. For prosecutors, the felony-murder rule offers an efficient path to conviction: winning a case is much easier if you don’t need to prove a person’s mens rea—“guilty mind”—or even, in some cases, to establish that the accused was at the scene of the crime. Forty-eight states now have some version of the statute. Charlie Smith, the president of the National District Attorneys Association, told me that the tool is particularly useful in cases with vulnerable victims, such as an elderly woman in a wheelchair who gets assaulted in a purse-snatching incident and dies. “The community would feel it’s not reasonable if the old lady’s death was just a simple misdemeanor assault,” he said. Prosecutors often employ felony murder when a death results from an armed robbery—a category of crime that Smith contends, in the spirit of Hawkins, carries death as a foreseeable outcome. Another benefit to prosecutors is that the steep penalties often attached to felony murder—including life sentences—compel defendants to plead guilty to a lesser charge. “We shouldn’t underestimate how many plea bargains occur in the shadow of felony-murder charges across the country,” Ekow Yankah, a law professor at the University of Michigan, told me. “It is one of those quiet drivers of mass incarceration we never acknowledge.”

...

Another subset of felony-murder cases we examined involved shootings by people in law enforcement. In many states, when an officer fires a lethal gunshot at a crime scene, individuals who were with the victim may be charged with the killing. (The rationale is that, without the instigating felony, police wouldn’t have been on the scene in the first place.) We compiled twenty cases in which an officer pulled the trigger and someone else assumed the charge; the best known of these cases is that of LaKeith Smith. In 2015, when he was fifteen, LaKeith and four friends broke into two unoccupied homes in Millbrook, Alabama, to steal Xbox games and other electronics. A neighbor called the police, who appeared, guns drawn. LaKeith ran into the woods, and one of the officers shot and killed his friend, sixteen-year-old A’Donte Washington, who they said had a gun. The prosecution alleged that one of the older teen-agers had fired a shot, and a grand jury found that the officer’s use of force was “justified.” LaKeith was charged as an adult with murder, for the killing at the officer’s hand.

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But, as some states pull back from the concept, others are expanding it. In Arkansas, legislators have considered a bill allowing district attorneys to charge women who obtain unauthorized abortions, and anyone who aids them, with felony murder. (In the Dobbs decision, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that abortion offered America its “proto-felony-murder rule”; in the colonies, if a doctor gave a pregnant woman a “potion” to aid in an abortion and she died, he could be charged with murder.) In the wake of Dobbs, other states have proposed legislation similar to the Arkansas bill. Some legislators are also pushing felony murder’s expansion into another fraught terrain: overdoses tied to the opioid epidemic. “These cartel bosses, who have taken advantage of the weakness of the Biden Administration, must be held accountable for the millions of lives they have destroyed with this horrific drug,” Senator Ted Cruz said recently, in support of a bill to make the lethal distribution of fentanyl punishable with federal felony-murder charges. A mere two milligrams of the synthetic opioid, which is cheaper than heroin and is often used as a filler by underground drug producers, can be a lethal dose. As deaths of unsuspecting users soar, red-state politicians have rallied around this cause. Some defenders and prosecutors argue that this hard line will lead to more deaths, as fellow-users hesitate to dial 911 when they witness an overdose. But proponents underline a payoff: that felony-murder prosecutions will bring down drug kingpins and major suppliers.

...

Could former President Trump be prosecuted for felony murder for urging on the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, which led to a number of deaths? Could fossil-fuel-company executives be held liable for murder for criminally deceiving the public about carbon emissions that killed people? If we take the felony-murder doctrine’s core premise seriously, it’s easy to imagine a radically different justice system. But, after two years of closely reviewing cases, I can state with confidence that the doctrine is rarely levelled against people of influence. It is used instead to impose some of our society’s harshest punishments on low-income defendants, young people, and defendants of color.

#m.links #everything in this article is absolutely rage inducing #uspol