Current Events > Restaurant owner in South Carolina convicted for enslaving his employee.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/12/white-restaurant-manager-enslaved-black-man-for-years-federal-prosecutors-say/

A white restaurant manager accused of enslaving and abusing a mentally disabled black man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in South Carolina on a charge of forced labor.

Federal prosecutors say Bobby Paul Edwards used force, threats of force, physical restraint, and coercion to compel John Christopher Smith to work as a buffet cook at J&J Cafeteria in Conway, S.C., for more than five years.

Edwards, 52, was arrested this week and pleaded not guilty in open court on Wednesday, shortly after prosecutors announced the indictment, records show.

The full title of the charge is attempt to establish peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude or human trafficking. It carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines. If convicted, Edwards will have to pay restitution to Smith.

There's way more details in the article. This seems like one of those stories that's just too absurd to be real.
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Doesn't he know you can only do that if the other guy's been convicted or sent to rehab?
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Indicted =/= convicted.
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attempt to establish peonage

Yesh milord
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There was a story a little while ago about a Chinese restaurant in NYC that basically did the same thing. I can't find an article for it, so here's one that's far more recent, though in the UK.

Long story short, people will always take advantage of the poor, ignorant, and disabled. It's pretty sad.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/slave-raids-on-chinese-restaurants-in-west-midlands-pvbxxj50v
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darkjedilink posted...

Indicted =/= convicted.

Oops
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MrSinclair posted...

I dont read articles and I dont want to be offensive but what is so bad about this? Ifnhe was that mentally challenged did he even know his was happening? And if not at least he was employed.

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I heard about this story a while ago. Its sickening

How many confede- I mean southern heritage flags does the restaurant owner have on his truck?
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MrSinclair posted...

I dont read articles and I dont want to be offensive but what is so bad about this? Ifnhe was that mentally challenged did he even know his was happening? And if not at least he was employed.

Seriously?

Smith described Edwards like a slave driver. He said the manager would call him racial slurs, and threaten to stomp his throat and beat him until people would not recognize him.

Edwards also assaulted him regularly, sometimes taking Smith into the restaurants freezer or back office to keep others from noticing, the lawsuit said.

In one instance, Smith said, Edwards dipped a pair of tongs into hot frying grease and scalded the back of his neck. On another occasion, when Smith didnt bring food out to the buffet fast enough, Edwards took Smith into the back of the restaurant and whipped him with a belt buckle, according to the complaint.

Plaintiff was heard crying like a child and yelling, No, Bobby, please! After this beating, Defendant Bobby forced Plaintiff to get back to work, the complaint read.

MrSinclair posted...

I dont read articles and I dont want to be offensive but what is so bad about this? Ifnhe was that mentally challenged did he even know his was happening? And if not at least he was employed.

What a horrible 'point'.
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eston posted...

attempt to establish peonage

Yesh milord

Stop poking me!
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This happened near me too. A Chinese restaurant owner had 5 illegals living in his basement like slaves. They would work for him then hide in the basement or face deportation. The house burned down and killed them all.the next week he put up a now hiring sign. He didn't even get that harsh of a punishment
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More fuel for liberals to codemn white people. One dickbag does something horrible like this, gets punished as he should, but do people leave it at that? No, its blown up to epidemic levels of "See? See? White people are bad".

MrSinclair posted...

I dont read articles and I dont want to be offensive but what is so bad about this? Ifnhe was that mentally challenged did he even know his was happening? And if not at least he was employed.

Really? You just asked what's so bad about abusing a mentally handicapped person if they don't know that they are being abused? That's as sickening as what this dickbag did!

AcFan87 posted...

More fuel for liberals to codemn white people. One dickbag does something horrible like this, gets punished as he should, but do people leave it at that? No, its blown up to epidemic levels of "See? See? White people are bad".

Bro, I went out of my way to omit the race shit and you're the first one to barge in here whining about it. Practice what you preach.
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AffligemFR posted...

MrSinclair posted...

I dont read articles and I dont want to be offensive but what is so bad about this? Ifnhe was that mentally challenged did he even know his was happening? And if not at least he was employed.

What a horrible 'point'.

@MrSinclair
What the fuck is your problem? That's sickening!

Sadly human trafficking is still a very real and big problem.
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