Are the Jackson Police Concerned About Justice or Bad PR?
Posted by Betsy Phillips on Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:00 PM
http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2010/12/13/are-the-jackson-police-concerned-about-justice-or-bad-pr (http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2010/12/13/are-the-jackson-police-concerned-about-justice-or-bad-pr)
Jenci Spradlin has as much new stuff about Akasha Adonis's situation over in Jackson as you're likely to find. I won't repeat all of the things that you can read for yourself. But I do want to say a couple of things.
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2. Even if what the police say is true — that Adonis shoved first the man who broke her jaw and ripped out her teeth — that doesn't make what happened to her okay. All the time, when women are harassed, people ask, "Why didn't you just punch him?"
This is why. Because a man can be verbally harassing you (which the police stipulate did occur) and if you do anything other than just take it, the police might decide you don't need justice.