{"id":180720,"date":"2019-06-05T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/black-lives-matter-activist-shaun-king-says-manafort-doesnt-deserve-rikers.html"},"modified":"2019-06-05T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T06:55:00","slug":"black-lives-matter-activist-shaun-king-says-manafort-doesnt-deserve-rikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/black-lives-matter-activist-shaun-king-says-manafort-doesnt-deserve-rikers.html","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King says Manafort doesn&#8217;t deserve Rikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6044484453001\" data-v-275a95fe=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/062ac_694940094001_6044492609001_6044484453001-vs.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Manafort to be transferred to Rikers Island\" data-v-275a95fe=\"\"\/><span class=\"overlay\" data-v-275a95fe=\"\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\" data-v-275a95fe=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6044484453001\" data-v-275a95fe=\"\">Paul Manafort to be transferred to Rikers Island<\/a><\/h4>\n<p data-v-275a95fe=\"\">Manafort is serving four years for tax and bank fraud and will remain in solitary confinement for his own protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Rikers Island is so bad, that not even Trump\u2019s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort deserves to go there, Black Lives Matter activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/shaun-king-slammed-for-pushing-womans-now-discredited-claim-trooper-sexually-assaulted-her\">Shaun King<\/a>\u00a0said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">King tweeted his thoughts Tuesday after Fox News reported that Manafort, who is serving a federal prison sentence for bank and tax fraud charges, will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/judge-orders-paul-manafort-to-be-transferred-to-new-york-citys-notorious-rikers-island\">transferred to Riker\u2019s Island<\/a> later this week. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see people excited to see Paul Manafort sent to Rikers Island and put in solitary confinement,\u201d King tweeted.\u00a0\u201cWe must be so principled in our calls for reform that we want them even for our enemies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/alan-dershowitz-why-is-paul-manafort-off-to-rikers-prepare-to-be-shocked-and-outraged\"><strong>ALAN DERSHOWITZ: WHY IS PAUL MANAFORT OFF TO RIKERS? PREPARE TO BE SHOCKED (AND OUTRAGED)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rikers, which holds nine\u00a0of New York City\u2019s 13 jails, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/what-is-rikers-island\">renowned for its brutal violence<\/a>, corruption, and gang rivalries. Rikers&#8217; inmates have included some of the 20th century\u2019s most notorious criminals including the \u201cSon of Sam\u201d and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Despite millions poured into reform efforts, violence has escalated in recent years. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\"><strong>GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though it may be \u201cexciting\u201d to see someone of \u201cprivilege\u201d being sent to a place where \u201chundreds of thousands of us have been sent to,\u201d Rikers is still a \u201chell hole that nobody should have to go to. Even Paul Manafort,\u201d King added. <\/p>\n<p><!----><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/UMpFFxmFxPQ\/black-lives-matter-activist-shaun-king-says-even-rikers-is-too-bad-for-paul-manafort<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Paul Manafort to be transferred to Rikers Island Manafort is serving four years for tax and bank fraud and will remain in solitary confinement for his own protection. Rikers Island is so bad, that not even Trump\u2019s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort deserves to go there, Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King\u00a0said on Twitter. 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