Again in June 2024, BOSSIP apologized upfront for reporting a narrative that we stated would wreck your day. At the moment, we’re happy to replace that story with information that may brighten your Friday, and it’d simply encourage you to have an early blissful hour.
43-year-old Paul Jonathan Bittner of Ukiah, California, has been sentenced to serve 41 months in jail after being convicted of second-degree assault of a kid and fee of a hate crime, in keeping with The Bellingham Herald. Bittner’s prices stem from an incident wherein he punched an 11-year-old Black scholar from Whatcom Center College whereas he was strolling together with his associates. Not solely did Bittner punch the boy and break his tooth, however he additionally adopted up by berating him publicly with racist slurs. Bittner pleaded responsible to all prices.
Sufficed it to say, the boy’s household is blissful that justice was swift (or swift as it may be, contemplating the usually lengthy and arduous authorized course of) and so they stay up for therapeutic and shifting on with their lives.
“I’m feeling good,” the kid’s father, DeVante Blow, instructed The Bellingham Herald following the sentencing. “I’m feeling as if justice was served and the neighborhood is safer.”
Each neighborhood is safer when racist white people are imprisoned. Hopefully, the universe continues to punish Bittner lengthy after his jail time period is up. As for the kid, Blow says that his son “is in an incredible place”.
After his arrest, Bittner spent over 5 months remanded to Western State Hospital, the place he was identified with schizoaffective dysfunction, bipolar sort, and initially discovered not competent to face trial. Nevertheless, Senior Deputy Prosecuting Lawyer Benjamin Pratt described Bittner’s present mind-set as “considerably completely different” than the one he exhibited on the time of the incident.
We don’t care what this man is affected by, he dedicated a heinous crime and jail is the one place for folks like that.