Short prison term for mass shooting is ‘disgrace’ | READER COMMENTARY

Brooklyn Homes defendant deserved a harsher sentence that he received under a plea deal.

Where are the public servants who are sworn to protect and serve their constituents? Aaron Brown will be eligible for parole after six years in prison for his part in the Brooklyn mass shooting last July (“Fourth of five charged in Brooklyn Homes mass shooting has pleaded guilty,” May 29). What a disgrace! Two people are dead, 28 others were wounded, and hundreds of additional people were traumatized.

Brown also pleaded guilty to another attempted murder charge in a separate incident as well. Baltimore Circuit Judge Jeffrey M. Geller seems to be allergic to trying real cases. He just rubber-stamped an admitted, repeated murderer return to society before he turns 30 years old. He seems to believe that Brown can be rehabilitated at Patuxent Institution.

Also, to me, Baltimore’s state’s attorney also doesn’t want to do his job which is for him to uphold his oath to protect his constituents. Ivan Bates ran on the platform of his being tough on crime.  Really? Low-level drug dealers serve similar sentences on his watch. This Brooklyn Homes case got national coverage last year. Bates might have blown his chance to become a nationally recognized crime fighter when he caved in to this sweetheart plea deal.

A “rehabilitated” Aaron Brown will be free to rip and run again in his prime. Nowadays, people are continually complaining about the police. Do they ever complain about the court or the state’s attorney? How about the our Maryland General Assembly which apparently gives these “public servants” all of this latitude and flexibility?

I don’t think so.

— George Hammerbacher, Baltimore

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