Remember Amanda Knox?
In November 2007, in Perugia, Italy, an American exchange student named Amanda Knox was accused of having taken part in the murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. Knox was accused even though there was zero evidence tying her to the murder and a great deal of DNA implicating someone else.
After spending two years in prison, Knox was found guilty in December 2009. She was 22 at the time. She was sentenced to 26 years behind bars.
In 2010, Knox’s lawyers appealed the verdict, submitting most of the exculpatory evidence that was not presented before. And on October 3, 2011, her conviction was overturned. She flew home the next day.
In the years since, Knox completed her college degree and wrote a best-selling book (Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir). She cohosts the podcast “Labyrinths.”
Click here for an essay she recently wrote for The Free Press.
Woke Watch #1: You Can’t Make This Up!
Last year, San Francisco, a city that never had slaves or slaveholders, decided to take on the Critical Race Theory idea that the government should pay reparations to African Americans whose ancestors were either slaves or lived during the Jim Crow era.
And last week (or was it the week before?), the panel came back with its initial recommendations
The city should award $5 million to every black adult resident, eliminate their personal debt and tax burdens, guarantee annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years, and guarantee homes in San Francisco for just $1 a family.
The plan would cost about $600,000 per household.
Woke Watch #2: It’s About Time!
Many people are not aware of it, but all across America, there is a vast social injustice being done. Thankfully, someone is finally doing something about it.
Click here to see Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signing an executive order banning “hair discrimination.”