By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 1:25:00 P.M. EDT
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Months after a mother and her 3 children died from a fire at their home, her husband is now facing charges in their deaths.
Police took Robert Scales into custody Thursday after the Kent County Prosecutor's Office authorized 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter against the 38-year-old. Each count is a felony, with a maximum prison sentence of 15 years.
Scales is accused of setting the fire at the family's home on February 5. His wife Wanedia and her 15-year-old son Xavier Woldeab died at the scene. 13-year-old Robert Scales Jr and 9-year-old Elijah Scales were rushed to the hospital but did not survive.
Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker weighed in on the charges Thursday. He says they could not prove Scales intended to kill his wife and children in the fire, which is why there are no murder charges.
“I think that would be some of the questions out there. We were fully aware of some of the comments that were made earlier in the relationship. We looked into everything, and we could not prove a murder case in this instance,” Becker said.
Becker also said the investigation was lengthy due to the fire and the amount of science involved in these types of cases.
“It has to be based on fact and what the law is. I think that’s what we’ve done in this case. I’m not trying to take a stand for anything or anybody. It’s what the law and the facts have shown us, that these are the appropriate charges,” Becker said.
Becker says they have reviewed other information including Scales' comments to media and police after the death of his family.
An investigation into court documents by FOX 17 News revealed a troubled history between the Scales and his wife, Wanedia, including a request for a personal protection order against Scales by his wife.
Scales remains in the Kent County Jail, pending arraignment.
--GRA
N.S.: Seeing as Michigan is a no-justice state, it wasn't going to matter much. A max of 15 years, and he'll get--if convicted at all--concurrent. On top of that, they'll parole him after what, seven?
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GR POLICE UNION PAINTS GRIM PICTURE OF GRAND RAPIDS--AND WHY DEFUNDING SHOULD NOT OCCUR
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Grand Rapids police officers unions are urging residents to tell city leaders not to cut some $9.4 million from the department’s funding.
Amid nationwide calls to cut police funding and redirect the cash to other community projects, a Grand Rapids commissioner has floated reducing the Grand Rapids Police Department’s share of the general fund from nearly 39% to the city charter-mandated 32% minimum. That would decrease GRPD’s current $55.1 million portion to $45.7 million.
During a Thursday afternoon press conference, the Grand Rapids Police Officers Association and Grand Rapids Police Command Officers Association said the move would lead to dozens of layoffs and negatively affect people who live in high-crime areas that the unions say already don’t have enough police presence.
“The residents … who continue to call the GRPD for help will be disparately affected if the GRPD is defunded,” a joint release from the unions read in part.
(GRA:They deserve to be the group most affected--the entire commotion is their doing--starting with the ever increasing negro crime wave and continuing with black complaints against cops).
The unions said if the $9.4 million cut happens, GRPD would lose 78 officers who “represent the most diverse segment of our department” and all its interns, who are part of a diverse hiring initiative.
(GRA:Maybe not a bad idea after all,lol)
They said the layoffs would necessitate broad reorganizing that would mean only the most serious crimes are investigated. They painted that as a grim situation, citing a number of statistics including 17 homicides in the city so far this year(GRA:Same as all of 2019)and about an 11% increase in violent crime and an about 32% increase in gun crime in the first quarter.
While the release didn’t explicitly address recent protests, it did note that “we have also been experiencing consistent incidents where large groups of individuals have unlawfully been interfering with traffic in major intersections,” adding that those incidents had involved reports of shots fired and delayed some emergency responses.
GRA:My bet is they cut the police budget by some amount less than 9.4 million--trying to please both the union AND BLM/NAACP.
--GR Anonymous--I'm a white survivalist
Just one more thing about the proposed police budget cuts:
The police union described Grand Rapids as "a community in crisis."
Of course that's a description that fits any city with blacks being over 2-3% of the population--but especially of cities with 10-20% blacks--like I believe we are.
--GRA
Right. This is a death penalty case. But no death penalty in MI. Too bad. The guy does need to be executed.
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