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CRITICAL ROLE 4.27 Complicated Questions

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DA Tom Sneddon was a huge racist, by the way. He tipped off Diane Dimond about the 2003 raid so she could have it filmed to sway public opinion on Jackson. She was there outside the ranch that day with her cameras. He regularly leaked info to her which was either biased or completely false, which she reported on. He had a reputation of going after predominantly innocent people and black men, and his colleagues nicknamed him “mad dog”.

He told Chris Tucker to be a “good boy” during his cross examination on May 25th, 2005.

Michael Jackson himself accused Sneddon of being a racist in his song D.S. on his HIStory album, and even claimed he was involved with the KKK.

And mind you, there were even allegations of Tom Sneddon passing around those photos he took of Michael’s dick to all his friends and colleagues in private just for the shits and giggles. The strip search was just a way to humiliate Jackson.

The DA and partnering police departments contacted the FBI to see if they could prosecute Jackson under the MANN Act on September 7th, 1993. The MANN Act is also known officially as the “White Slave Traffic Act”, which was introduced in 1910 by the author Rep. James Robert Mann.

This Act allowed police officers to arrest on the grounds of “immoral behavior”, and this law was historically used to frequently smear black men, especially those that dated white women.

Jack Johnson was the first black man to be prosecuted under the MANN Act. He was the world’s first black Heavyweight Boxing Champion. The proposition of the law was largely due to the potential to smear Johnson. Johnson was viewed by the press as a black man who didn’t know his place. He displayed his success openly, more than 50 years before segregation ended in America. Society deemed he be humbled accordingly.

He traveled and was sexually involved with white women, and was prosecuted for it, specifically for “transporting females across the state line for immoral purposes”. The white women that were involved with Johnson stated under oath it was consensual, and their travels with him were willingly made. Moreover, these travels took place long before the MANN Act was established, but this did not stop an all white jury from convicting him.

Years later, Chuck Berry was prosecuted for the same thing. He met a teenage girl and asked her to work as a hat-check girl in his restaurant. The girl in question was a waitress, which is how he met her. She agreed to the job offer, and he traveled with her after a concert so she could work in St Louis. He was prosecuted for traveling with her, and sentenced to 3 years in prison.

Mind you, none of these men’s white contemporaries were ever prosecuted for such things, despite them doing the same thing and far worse.

The MANN Act is an inherently racist law that exists because of the potential to prosecute black men. The LAPD, working with the DA, wanted to prosecute Jackson under this law. It is in the FBI documents.

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