1. There are ~800k people in pretrial detention in the US who are locked-up for the "crime" of being poor. 2. The US has the highest incarceration rate per cap

1. There are ~800k people in pretrial detention in the US who are locked-up for the "crime" of being poor. 2. The US has the highest incarceration rate per capita. 3. The outrage bait of this article is to promote class divisions, that somehow being poor leads to one conclusion and rich to another WRT bail. 4. His parents put up their house (suppose it's worth $6 megabucks), he has to wear an ankle monitor, they took his passport, and he can't have firearms in his possession. It's curious that he was allowed to "make bail" against $250 megabucks for presumably much less than a "bail bond" would charge. 5. It appears they will be fighting this with pricey lawyers rather than plutocrat island escape plan 7.