For D.C. Superior Court Judge Russell Canan.
It isn’t, of course – and and no one will lift a finger to make it so.
But it should be.
A D.C. police officer is going on probation after being sentenced Thursday to the 14 months behind bars he already served for shooting at a car full of transgender prostitutes who refused to pick him up.
Kenneth Furr, 48, was found guilty in October of several charges, including assault with intent to kill while armed.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Russell Canan sentenced Furr to five years in prison and 30 days for solicitation of prostitution, and suspended all but 14 months of that time on the condition that Furr successfully complete three years of supervised probation.
The judge credited the time that Furr had already spent in custody toward his sentence; as a result, Furr remains free and is now on probation.
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It wasn’t the first time Furr has gotten into trouble.
He was arrested in 2004 for driving while intoxicated and operating while impaired, according to court records. He pleaded no contest and the charges were dropped after he completed a diversion program.
What a worthless piece of garbage.
I’ll leave it to the reader to deermine whether I’m referring to Furr or Canan.
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I’m not happy to see the trans women referred to as “prostitutes” when the whole thing was started because she turned down Furr’s offer of money for sex, and he wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. Not that there is anything wrong with being a prostitute if that’s what one wishes to be, it seems that the facts of the story contradict the article’s assertion that the victim was a prostitute.
Even if she was a prostitute, it’s obvious that she was not working at the time the incident occurred, so the only reason for the article to make the assertion is to prejudice the reader against the victim by using slut-shaming.
Excellent point.