6 monthsâŚwait now 4 months. For rape. I have no words.
I hav a quite a selection you can useâŚand none of them polite
I just hope the inmates where he is going school him in what someone goes tru when their rapedâŚsome real life experience is what he needs from he female perpectiveâŚhe may even get taught how to toss someoneâs saladâŚsee he can even learn a trade when heâs in jailâŚ
That looks like THREE months early to me. June 2 to September 2, 50% of a six month sentence.
Rape is never acceptable, period, full stop. A prison environment in which rape is ignored is also unacceptable, especially with the problems of commercialized over incarceration and a racially biased school to prison pipeline. That isnât justice, or even the least bit funny.
@sj1956 Exactly. Editors should have caught that. Unless the guy already did two weeks after his arrest but prior to his conviction and then got credit for a full month.
Hey, I understand incentives for good behavior, especially in jails. However, you might have thought someone would have exercised a little judgment here.
Rape is always wrong. Always. Without exception.
I donât think they realize that this isnât going to blow over, itâs turning into the focus of a lot of activism and radicalization.
I live in New York, and this morning I saw that someone had put up Turnerâs picture in the subway station in Times Square (near the 40th Street exist for the NRQ, if anyone cares), on a poster that said âThis is what a rapist looks like.â
It reminds me a lot of when the police killed Michael Brown in Fergusson. At first, I think there was this sense that people would just get over it, that theyâd figure there was nothing you can do and move on. But that didnât happen.
Those posters need to go up all around the town where heâs living. If you think that means putting a target on his back, youâd be right.
If it is standard that a jail term is cut in half by 50% for good behavior, then the judge knew he could get out in 3 months. Turner was already cut slack when he did not go to prison for the feloniesâcouldnât they at least have given a year so he would serve at least 6 months?
Brock has experienced the trifecta of privilegeâŚclass, gender, and race. I hope he gets whitewashed in prison.
I hope he drags a long tail of public humiliation through a life full of rocking chairs.
Iâve been completely taken in by this story, Iâve been reading everything I can find & reading the comments sections. Iâve been seeing a lot, A LOT of commentary stating that the victim shares blame for drinking too much, & some people going as far as saying that any woman in any situation where there is rape shares blame especially if theyâre dressed inappropriately. That last comment made my jaw drop. Let me just say that it doesnât matter what anyone is wearing, even if they are wearing NOTHING, that does not give anyone the right to put their hands on them. Does it heighten the likelihood of something happening? Iâd venture to say that yes, it does. But that doesnât make it right, that doesnât excuse the offense. If I were a female and walked into a party with just a bra and panties I should be able to EXPECT that I would not be touched, groped, or fondled in any way that I do not personally, verbally invite. We are thinking human beings, not animals who cannot control base instincts.
Ditto. I think society would have settled for an appropriate sentence.
Unbelievable.
So if someone drinks to excess, itâs okay to sexually assault them? LookâŚyou should never let your guard down, but this is too stupid to even call illogical.
As disgusted as I am with the perpetrator, Iâm just as appalled with his fatherâs attitude. The audacity to call sexual assault âtwenty minutes of actionâ!! I can see the nut didnât fall from the nut job.
As much as loathe the rapist, he isnât to blame for the ridiculously low sentence he received. That is squarely on his buddy, Aaron âthe Rape Judgeâ Persky. Can this person be removed from office? A recall or something?
After years of studying what juries do, this attitude does not surprise me. Jurors are always on the look out for a reason to blame the victim. And itâs been around for a long time and in other forms too. E.g., âHey, you should have known better than to be a black man walking into a white neighborhood, (sitting at the front of the bus, demanding a vote, etc.,) what did you think was going to happen?â
Fortunately, I do think this attitude is becoming a smaller and smaller minority view. Remember in this case, a jury that heard the evidence convicted this man of the crime, in spite of the womanâs very candid acknowledgement of her own mistakes in drinking too much. Yes she made a mistake drinking too much, but that is where her responsibility ends. You got drunk so I get a free pass for raping you, simply wonât fly. And it didnât here.
That comment by the father was shocking. Itâs no wonder his son thought it was ok to rape this young woman.