After the information broke {that a} Virginia nurse allegedly harmed newborns on Monday (Jan. 6), Black Twitter misplaced their minds.
Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, 26, was charged with malicious wounding and felony youngster abuse, as said in courtroom data and by the Henrico County Police Division. The arrest was a results of the police investigating three completely different infants that suffered “unexplained fractures” within the new child care unit of Henrico Medical doctors’ Hospital in Richmond November and December.
Black of us on social media didn’t take any of this calmly—particularly as a result of The Each day Mail reported that Strotman was allegedly concentrating on Black newborns. No less than one of many infants had been Black, as verified by CBS 6.
One person, @queenie4rmnola, tweeted out the apparent if the allegations in opposition to Strotman are true. “If I’m telling you that black infants had been tortured by a white nurse and your response is, why are you making this about race? I would like you to grasp you’re a part of the issue,” she said.
One other person, @MrReynolds52, agreed along with her. He additionally used it as a chance to deal with the political hypocrisy behind the shortage of conservative outrage.
“The place is the outrage from the Republicans and others who’re all the time making loud noise on X about unlawful immigrant crime,” he identified. “That is absolute EVIL!”
One other persona, @TheAfroElite, additionally tried to take a political angle however received a part of it mistaken. “The medical business is stuffed with suspected white supremacists, because of this we want a Black hate crime legislation,” they said.
Nevertheless, there’s a Black hate crime legislation—it’s known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which authorizes the prosecution for white supremacists who commit violent acts. In 2022, President Biden additionally signed into legislation the primary federal laws to make lynching a hate crime, addressing a historical past of racist killings in the USA.
One other individual, @ibchele, was rather more concise relating to their view on Strotman’s alleged habits. “Might Karma discover her in jail!” they wrote.
If discovered responsible, Strotman faces a most of a decade in jail for the felony youngster neglect cost and 20 years for the malicious wounding cost.