Here's How Lucy Flores Went From Juvenile Delinquent To Working With Bernie Sanders (from 2016)

[Beringia]

She came up through a very hard life. Two of her brothers died in east Los Angeles of gang and drug-related murders.


For some reason, the link will only link to the main publication, so I posted a working link on a tweet.

https://medium.com/@mitunetwork/heres-how-lucy-flores-went-from-juvenile-delinquent-to-working-with-bernie-sanders-82a170fc1d63

Link to tweet

I didn’t have any support. I didn’t understand what was happening. I started doing poorly in school and not a single person intervened,” Flores recalled to mitú. “I went from this gifted and talented education student to really failing every single one of my placement exams and doing poorly in school — almost overnight, and not a single person noticed. So, I didn’t have that support structure there and I fell through the cracks like so many people do and I didn’t have a whole lot of positive role models and people to aspire to, but I did have a lot of negative ones.”

Just going through that system, it was really traumatic and partially explains why, statistically speaking, I should have ended up in that system,” Flores told mitú when recalling being strip-searched at just 12 years old. “But, eventually I ended up on juvenile parole at 15 because all of that seriousness quickly escalated and was sent away for grand theft auto and a couple of other major, more serious, crimes. When I got out I was expected to do better given the same circumstances, the same resources, the same everything because there also isn’t enough of a support structure when you are released out of the correctional facility.”

[JI7]

1. I don't think Biden touched her at all as she claims

and I do agree women can be uncomfortable and assumed this was the case until I heard her speak and saw pics of the event.

it was after hearing her tell her own side and the pics I saw that I don't believe he touched her at all the way she claims.

[Beringia]

2. I can't fathom it. I think this is going to hurt her in the end, no one will want to pose with her

in a hug.

[Tipperary]

8. Same here.

I found her not to be credible in her interview with Tapper.

[flotsam]

3. You mean the woman who started the entire Biden attack

is a predicate felon?

[Beringia]

4. I looked up predicate felon and it says crime within the last 10 years, so no

[TCJ70]

11. "Creepy Biden" didn't start with Lucy Flores...n/t

[workinclasszero]

5. Remember when the backgrounds of the CNN plants in Bernie's town hall were brought up here?

Screams of DOXING!!1! reverberated throughout DU.

OMG THEY ARE DOXING those poor innocent people!

But here we are now digging into peoples background because they dared to say something against Joe Biden...but this time, no doxing right? SMH

[LongtimeAZDem]

6. Remember how you called out Sanders supporters for doing so? Yeah, me neither.

And equating unsubstantiated accusations of improper conduct with asking a candidate questions in a town hall is putrid.

[marble falls]

9. She borrowed her parents' car without permission?