Will Joe Biden and Kamala Harris do what is right in the case of Rodney Reed?
The Federal government has a very special role to carry out in the case of Rodney Reed. For over two decades the Federal government has shirked its role of investigating one of the worst crimes involving a person’s violation of their civil rights... and human rights, a role for the United States Attorney General and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
Let us not have to wait for an investigation like the United States government usually is accustomed to doing... investigating once someone is dead.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris should immediately dispatch federal attorneys and investigators with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to Texas to see who is responsible for the racist frame-up of Rodney Reed.
All those found to be responsible and complicit in this crime must be arrested and prosecuted.
Rodney Reed must be exonerated, set free and he and his family must be adequately compensated for this grave injustice perpetrated against them.
The real murderer of Stacey Stites, Jimmy Fennell, must be arrested, and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Contrary to all excuses made to the present time, the federal government has a very special, important and primary role to play in seeing to it that Rodney Reed is set free and all those who orchestrated this frame-up prosecuted to the full extent of the federal laws.
Texas authorities can not be relied on to deliver justice in this case because those who would be required to free Rodney Reed have all been complicit in knowingly and intentionally framing Rodney Reed in the first place.
How Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will respond to this injustice once they are sworn into office will tell us everything we need to know about them.
The Nation’s sense of morality must be focused on Texas in the same way moral outrage focused the Nation’s attention on the murder of George Floyd.
In the case of George Floyd, he was murdered; no amount of justified outrage could ever bring him back.
In this case of Rodney Reed, we can stop the racist criminals occupying the seats of power here in Texas who are intent on executing an innocent man in order to cover up their own most horrible and horrendous racist crimes maliciously carried out in a very vindictive frame-up that has placed Rodney Reed on death row.
Executing Rodney Reed, an innocent victim of a racist frame-up, would be murder.
Tell Joe Biden and Kamala Harris justice in the Rodney Reed case requires:
Exoneration.
Freedom.
Just compensation to Rodney Reed and the Reed family.
Prosecution of all the real criminals.
We must remember the present day criminal justice system in Texas is predicated and created on the cultural, systemic and institutionalized racism originally established by those who violently ended Reconstruction through terror, mayhem and murder who then claimed, in order to cover up their criminal deeds, they were never informed that slavery had ended... and only under pressure from the Federal government did those in power finally abolish slavery in Texas some two years after Lincoln had abolished it... the claim of these racist defenders of slavery was that they had not received word that slavery had been abolished throughout the land... and the present day governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, who was personally involved in orchestrating and carrying out this racist frame-up of Rodney Reed still clings to this as being “historical fact.”
Does any thinking person believe Texas politicians were unaware-for two long years- slavery had been abolished after their beloved Confederacy had been defeated in a bloody Civil War?
It is up to Joe Biden to see to it that Texas Governor Greg Abbott is escorted from the Governor’s Mansion to a prison cell.
As the New York Times’ “1619 Project” has pointed out, the racist injustices in the Southern criminal justice system are directly linked and tied to the institutions of slavery and no place is this more apparent then in the case of Rodney Reed here in Texas.
One wonders how it is that ABC News in its “20/20” special broadcast, “Stacey Stites: The Girl in the Pines” could have over-looked all of this... along with so much scientific and medical evidence?
Was this ABC episode, devoid of most of the pertinent facts of the case, intended to provide Biden and Harris an opportunity for an out to do nothing?
The Innocence Project has laid bare all the facts, and all the concocted lies, in the Rodney Reed case... it is all a matter of public record for all to see.
We must not allow this racist injustice to be chalked up to the incompetence of bungling cops, prosecutors, judges and public officials, either. It’s clearly a racist frame-up with the real murdering rapist monster still free... something anyone with a daughter, sister or mother might want to think about.