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Mitrice Richardson: Proof That She Was Having a “Severe” Mental Breakdown at the Time of Her Arrest at Geoffrey’s Restaurant

• December 15, 2009 • 9 Comments

Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Health, Jasmyne Cannick, Love, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, Mitrice Richardson, Race, Rep. Maxine Waters, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Nut up or shut up", "People Magazine", "The Los Angeles Times", "The Malibu Surfside News", African Americans, Arrogant, Bipolar Disorder, Blacks, California, Common Sense, Compassion, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Constables on Patrol, Crazy, Delusions, Depression, Detective Steven Eguchi, Diaries, Disinterest, Geoffrey's, Geoffrey's Restaurant, Hallucinations, Homophobia, Jaycee Dugard, Journals, Lack of Common Sense, LAPD, Laxity, Lesbian, Lesbians, LGBT, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Malibu Agoura-Lost Hills Sheriff's Department, Mania, Mental Health, Mental Health Professionals, Michael Richardson, Mitrice, Mitrice Richardson, Notebooks, Odd, Psychologists, Racism, Rapid Cycling, Representative Maxine Waters, Self-Worth, Sheriff's Deputies, Steve Whitmore, Suicide, The Los Angeles Police Department, Writer, Writing

Rick Stevens Is Not Going Home. Yet.

• October 22, 2009 • 3 Comments

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Drug Culture/Industry, History, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Music, Tower of Power
Tags: "Dead Man Walking", African Americans, Blacks, Board of Parole Hearings, Compassion, Donald Stevenson, Drugs, Forgiveness, Georgina Stevenson, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Growing Up, Healing, Incarceration, Murder, Murders, Parole Denied, Parole Hearing, Peter Boldin, Prisons, Remorse, Revenge, Rick Stevens, Sister Hele Prejean, Survivors, Susan Atkins, The Seventies, Tower of Power

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