The French Fry That Put Kids In Jail

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. [TW: ARREST OF MINOR CHILDREN] 2006 ABCNews article mentioned: ⁠⁠https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv... *** SUPPORT CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM HERE: ⁠⁠https://givingcompass.org/topics/crim... 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/⁠⁠ *** Host: Rebmasel TikTok: @rebmasel Instagram: @rebmasel @rebuttalpod Twitter: @rebmasel @rebuttalpod YouTube: ⁠   / @rebuttalpod⁠