Paris Hilton is sort of like one of those giant roaches that used to plague apartments in the hood. Try to stomp her out, and she just keeps on tickin. Reverend Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network, has blasted the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for Paris Hilton’s early release from a Lynnwood, California Correctional Facility after serving just three days on a forty-five day sentence.

Rev. Sharpton says:

“Though I have nothing but empathy for Ms. Hilton whom I have met and appeared with on Saturday Night Live the night I hosted in 2003, this early release gives all of the appearances of economic and racial favoritism that is constantly cited by poor people and people of color. There are any number of cases of people who handle being incarcerated badly and even have health conditions that are not released.

I have served several sentences for civil rights and civil disobedience actions and I even fasted which caused health concerns to prison authorities who paid for a doctor to come see me daily rather than release me. This act smacks of the double standards that many of us raise.”

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