Harlem Drug Dealer Gets 20 Years to Life. It's Like Selling Deadly Poison.

• Murder is what it is.
• Catch the dealers and don't let them out of prison.

Here is an excerpt from the news report.

A Manhattan judge raised eyebrows Tuesday when he turned the sentencing of five violent Harlem drug dealers into a lecture on parental responsibility.

"Gun violence in Harlem is the responsibility of that community," Supreme Court Justice Edward McLaughlin said as he sent the 21-year-old leader of the W. 137th St. gang, Jaquan “Jay Cash” Layne away for 20 years to life.

"If you do nothing, you are complicit," McLaughlin said as he urged families to do more to turn their kids from crime.

"If your relative is not doing homework, if you are not going to their school and talking with their teachers, then you contribute to your child's and your community's destruction," the judge said.

"If your relative has money, jewelry and nice clothes but no job, your relative is in the drug business."

Pray that this lecture sinks in.

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