Memphis BLM Founder Sentenced to Six Years After Illegally Voting
The founder of a Black Lives Matter chapter in Memphis, Tennessee, will be heading to prison after being sentenced to six years and one day.
Activist Pamela Moses said it was the fault of elections officials and others that she was not told when she signed up to vote in 2019 that a previous felony conviction meant she had been permanently barred from voting.
“This case is one about the disparity in sentencing and punishment — and one that shouldn’t have happened,” her attorney, Bede Anyanwu, told the Washington Post. Anyanwu said Moses will appeal, adding, “It’s all very, very disturbing.”
Memphis BLM founder Pamela Moses sentenced 6 years for illegally voting https://t.co/BIkmpXjrSG pic.twitter.com/pfXUPpWvPh
— New York Post (@nypost) February 6, 2022
Moses has said she did nothing wrong.
“I did not falsify anything,” she claimed.
Court Judge W. Mark Ward did not see it that way.
“You tricked the probation department into giving you documents saying you were off probation,” Ward said in, according to the Post. – READ MORE
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