Marcus McCowan Jr. is an 18 year old who was in an Odessa, TX hospital with his girlfriend, who was in labor. This “teen” entered the nursery and tried to choke and shake several babies to death. He attacked a new mother, several staff members, and attempted to take an arriving police officer’s gun. Drugs were found in his possession.
Those actions are enough to get a mention here. However, there is more to the story. The “teen,” you will note, is a “jr.” and has a father of the same name, who was in the news a few years ago, having lost an appeal to the Fifth circuit after being arrested. Let’s let the case speak for itself:
On October 13, 2004, police obtained a search warrant for the house and an arrest warrant for its occupants…Upon entering the dwelling in execution of the warrant, the officers encountered Heather Wilson, who informed them that McCowan resided there. The officers found two handguns in the living room, a.45 caliber handgun found under a couch and a.380 caliber handgun, with the serial number obliterated, found underneath a smaller couch…Beside the .380, approximately six to eight inches away, was a baggie of marijuana… They gave [McCowan] Miranda warnings and began to question him. He gave them a statement in which he admitted: (1) he and Love resided at the house; (2) the handgun in question belonged to his mother; (3) he kept the handgun at the house for protection; (4) he knew its serial number had been filed off; (5) he knew that possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number was unlawful; and (6) he thought the firearm probably had been stolen.
He lost the appeal. It seems that this particular apple didn’t fall very far from this particular tree, which just happened to be located in the orchard that seems to be incapable of living in accordance with the law.
But hey, Cassandra, these two just happen to be two more of what you call “a small subset of violent black males that disproportionately commit violent crimes.”
7 Comments
Hopey North Venezuela Change · October 12, 2022 at 4:29 pm
Family works at a local religious hospital that had wide open patient wards where anyone could walk in.
This was changed after a gang attacked a recovering member of a rival gang.
Chris · October 12, 2022 at 5:05 pm
SOS, different day.
This shits gettin old
Exile1981 · October 12, 2022 at 7:19 pm
He went out of his way to attack certain babies. I suspect the lack of info on the pattern speaks to what it was.
21stCenturyCassandra · October 12, 2022 at 8:35 pm
Piss off, Divemedic. You are a hypocrite.
Divemedic · October 13, 2022 at 5:57 am
I normally don’t approve comments that are personal attacks. I also told you that I expect you to support your argument and accusations of racism with evidence, which you haven’t done. That’s why I’m allowing this comment of yours. It’s a perfect illustration of how weak arguments get supported- with strawman arguments and ad hominem attacks.
It’s intellectually dishonest, and screaming “racism” at any evidence that one finds inconvenient is a tool of the intellectually lazy and weak minded. Come back when you have an argument that is more nuanced and intellectual than name calling and “nuh uhh”
21stCenturyCassandra · October 14, 2022 at 3:49 am
The Washington Post shredded the 1/3 of black men will spend time in prison claim.
The stale statistic that one in three black males ‘born today’ will end up in jail (June 16, 2015)
You cited this, a one pager which cites no sources to back up its claims.
Criminal Justice Facts
Our criminal justice system today is like a bicycle stuck in one gear: the prison gear.
The Sentencing Project actually issued 2 reports on this topic, but maybe you didn’t have time to read them.
Addressing Racial Disparities in Incarceration (2011) (pdf alert)
Report of The Sentencing Project to the United Nations Human Rights CommitteeRegarding Racial Disparities in the United States Criminal Justice System
August 2013 (pdf alert)
You said:
Yeah, no ad hominem there. SMH. Stuff like this is why I called you a hypocrite. And you edited a previous post (at least you had the honesty to edit the title to say it was edited) to add ANOTHER personal attack on me.
Predictable, edited
https://areaocho.com/predictable-2/
Yep, DiveMedic with another ad hominem.
What is sad and pathetic is that you didn’t even read your own source that you cited. You claimed, in error, that “The Sentencing Project estimated in 2001 that the likelihood of a Black man spending time behind bars in their lifetime was 1 in 3.” That isn’t what your own source said. It said, “Lifetime Likelihood of Imprisonment for U.S. Residents Born in 2001”. Little bit of a difference, doncha’ think? Even if you had quoted the source correctly, it would still not show anything. Your claim for a source 21 years ago is not relevant to the facts on the ground today.
From the actual report that the Sentencing Project based their estimate on:
Prisoners in 2001 (July 2002)
Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice
https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/p01.pdf
From the 2003 BJS report
Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001 (August 2003)
Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice
https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/piusp01.pdf
The problem for their claim (other than being based on 20 year old stats), is that the incarceration rate did NOT stay the same.
Prisoners in 2020 – Statistical Tables
https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/p20st.pdf
And when you take into account that only about half of prison inmates are incarcerated for violent crimes the 1/3 lifetime rate for black men spending time in prison that The Sentencing Project projected isn’t even close. Accounting for the 37% decrease in imprisonment rate for black men, and that about half are jailed for violent crimes, the lifetime likelihood for black men to be jailed for violent crimes is much closer to 10% than the 1/3 you incorrectly claimed. Yes, that’s still too high, and far higher than the rate for white men, but it refutes your 1 in 3 claim conclusively. I guess “Sum Dood” hasn’t been as busy as you thought he was.
Disagree? Think I’m wrong? Ok. Review the actual data I cite here and show me where I’m wrong. I’ll be waiting.
(Blog owner’s note: Since he doesn’t know how to embed links, I did do a little editing to make his comments more readable, but I edited his comments for format, not content- Divemedic)
BFYTW · October 14, 2022 at 1:18 pm
“Lifetime Likelihood of Imprisonment for U.S. Residents Born in 2001”. yeah, and the graphic accompanying that section of the report broke it down further and shows 1 in 3 Black men and 1 in 6 Latinos. SMH. but what can you expect from someone who doesn’t know what ad hominem means.
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