Something feels unfair about the judge's decision to sentence him for this long of a time, and I think I see what it is.
The judge said the fleeing charge... weighed in his decision on the prison sentence.
That, specifically, is unreasonable IMO. I think that only an elitist prick, such as judges like the few I have met (who have immunity to the constant police harassment cops do to Americans), would use this as an excuse to send someone to jail for 3 + years. So what if the dude drove off from a usually-senseless traffic stop. I don't think that was a smart thing to do, but everyone knows that many "traffic violations" in USA are things that cops just pick out of the air and are frequently related to overpowered laws that criminalize normal, safe driving.
What happened with the kid was not right but I'm not sure what was achieved by sending the guy to jail for 3.5 years. But IMO driving off from a stupid traffic stop isn't a good excuse for anything like that. It sounds like opportunistic sentencing of some sort and maybe racism (google the judge if you want, he's on youtube, sorry but judges can be racist as fuck in sentencing, this is maybe not the best crowd for saying that but it's how it is).
Judges do all kinds of weird shit with these cases. Here's someone who went away for pretty much half of her remaining life:
The toddler thought he was playing a game when he took her loaded .380 Ruger, put it in his mouth and pulled the trigger
people.com
That one had drug stuff mixed in with the kids toys, she was a worthless piece of shit, you know how i feel about those.
Here's one that got probation:
A Memphis father has been sentenced to probation for the shooting death of his 3-year-old son.
www.wmcactionnews5.com
Something happened to me one time that was interesting. My sister had a daughter who was a disobedient little shit. She was as deliberately disobedient as I have ever known a child be. The brat was maybe 10 years old at the time but was smaller than average and not very strong (her dad was small, probably in more ways than one).
The child had heard that I was a gun owner and my sister had told her clearly and forcefully that she was absolutely not allowed to touch my gun under any circumstances. My sister also made a big deal of telling me in front of the child that I was not allowed to let her hold the gun (I had no desire to do anything like that, but okayyyy).
Well, one time she came into my place with a few of her friends (the one and only time).
I took my gun from its usual place and put it in my dresser beneath clothing and put the safety on. It was a semi-auto but I didn't store it chambered, and it had an utterly annoying, very-stiff action. She was not strong in the hands and arms, and I was pretty sure that she would have needed help or at least coaching to chamber a round, drop the safety, and fire it. The safety was stiff, too, and hard to find.
I did not trust this child, she was BAD. Maybe she could have stolen my gun and fired it later with help, but I think it would have required something like that.
So, guess what. During the visit, the bad child disappeared from my sight for a moment, leaving the group of kids in a different room. It happened really fast. She was totally sneaking off during a time when she thought I was not paying attention.
When I realized she wasn't with the others, I went looking for her immediately. I found the god damn brat in my fucking bedroom, she had been searching my place specifically for my gun, and had in fact found it, and she was in the process of picking it up out of the drawer (it was still in the holster). That's when I required them to leave.
Some kids are fucking bad! If that brat had been living with me, I would have NEEDED something like a gun safe AND to keep the key completely away from her somehow, like eat it or someshit. She was the kind of child who would have stolen the key at the first good, unsupervised opportunity and gotten the gun(s) out and done whatever the fuck she felt like.
So saying all that to make the points clear: IMO this guy could and should have done better with the gun and the kid - it IS possible to keep kids out of your shit but you have to give a genuine shit. They even have trigger locks if you can't afford a gun safe. Kids being unpredictable, its best to do something if a kid is going to be in the same house as guns. But I still think it was an asshole elitist-judge prick move to come up with a traffic-related excuse during sentencing.