2: The French Fry That Put Kids In Jail

<p>On October 23, 2000, 12-year old Ansche Hedgepeth ate a single french fry in the Tenleytown-AU Metro station in Washington, D.C. on her way home from Alice Deal Junior High. Within seconds, she was in handcuffs. Why? Because a D.C. law dared to ask a simple question: "What if we just...arrested all the kids?"....Reb unpacks Hedgepeth v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit.</p> <p> [TW: ARREST OF MINOR CHILDREN] </p> <p>FULL EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: <a href="https://youtu.be/i4bYMAB1BAc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://youtu.be/i4bYMAB1BAc</a></p> <p>2006 ABCNews article mentioned: ⁠<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/01/08/update-girl-whose-french-fry-arrest-led-to-metro-policy-change-sets-sights-on-college-career/c221cecd-19bb-4d59-aa2d-a26eacf61830/⁠" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/01/08/update-girl-whose-french-fry-arrest-led-to-metro-policy-change-sets-sights-on-college-career/c221cecd-19bb-4d59-aa2d-a26eacf61830/⁠</a></p> <p><p> *** SUPPORT CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM HERE: ⁠https://givingcompass.org/topics/criminal-justice?subcategories=criminal-justice⁠ AND HERE: ⁠https://www.sentencingproject.org/⁠ SUPPORT PUBLIC DEFENSE HERE: ⁠https://www.gideonspromise.org/⁠ AND HERE: ⁠www.innocenceproject.org⁠ AND HERE: ⁠https://www.aclu.org/⁠ AND HERE: ⁠https://www.lastprisonerproject.org/⁠ SUPPORT KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE: ⁠https://supportkind.org/⁠ SUPPORT REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: ⁠https://reproductiverights.org/⁠ *** FOLLOW REB ON: TikTok: @rebmasel⁠ Instagram: @rebmasel⁠ Twitter: @rebmasel FOLLOW REBUTTAL POD ON: Instagram: @rebuttalpod Twitter: @rebuttalpod YouTube: Rebuttal Podcast

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