Rachel Maddow Decries ‘Unfair’ Lengthy Prison Sentence For TN BLM Chapter Founder Who Illegally Registered to Vote While on Probation

A Black Lives Matter chapter founder in Tennessee was sentenced last Monday to six years and one day in prison for illegally registering to vote while serving probation. 

Criminal Court Judge W. Mark Ward told the founder of the BLM chapter in Memphis, Pamela Moses, on Monday. “You tricked the probation department into giving you documents saying you were off probation.”

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow had Janai Nelson with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on her show last week to discuss the situation, which she called “unfair.”

The LDF tweeted a clip of the interview and said, “Pamela Moses, a Black woman, has been sentenced to six years in prison because of a voting error.”

“Meanwhile, white individuals who are known to have committed blatant voter fraud have only received probation. There are two criminal justice systems in America,” they claimed.

Journalist Andy Ngo, however, wasn’t having it and replied, “You’re misleading the public. Moses committed voter fraud & the sentencing is severe because she is a 16-time convicted felon.”

“She already has a 2015 conviction for felony tampering w/evidence & forgery. The judge here says she would get probation after 9 months for good behavior,” Ngo explained

Pamela Moses, a Black woman, has been sentenced to six years in prison because of a voting error. Meanwhile, white individuals who are known to have committed blatant voter fraud have only received probation.

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— Legal Defense Fund (@NAACP_LDF) February 4, 2022

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— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) February 6, 2022

Moses contended that she did nothing wrong and told the court, “I did not falsify anything. All I did was try to get my rights to vote back the way the people at the election commission told me and the way the clerk did.”

In 2019, Moses also ran for mayor in Memphis but learned she could not be on the ballot due to her serving probation.