somber music [reporter 1] 20 year old swimming Star Brock Turner [reporter 2] the 19 year old former high school allamerican swimmer [reporter 3] the star swimmer at Stanford University [reporter 4] contender for the olympics [reporter 5] raping an unconscious woman [reporter 6] intoxicated and unconscious woman [reporter 7] passed out behind a dumpster [reporter 8] drunk behind a Stanford Dumpster somber music [chanel miller] your honor, if it is all right, i would like to address the defendant directly. You dont know me, but youve been inside me and thats why were here today. The victim made headlines by Releasing A Heart Wrenching letter detailing the rape and its aftermath. [reporter] its gotten over 15 million views on buzzfeed alone. You dont know me, but youve been inside me. And thats why were here today. I was found unconscious with my hair disheveled, long necklace wrapped around my neck. My bare skin and head had been rubbing against the ground behind a dumpster while an ere
by being more punitive and w have been talking about that aisha, another piece of that, am curious about how you fee about this as an activist, for people in that movement, tha feminist blm et cetera, wh said well, they chose this fight. they said now, and bunch o white guy judges are reactin to it in that way. well, one response is, the don t control that and it doesn t take, if my reporting, recall or a special event for a lot of those peopl in those positions of power to act that way anyway. so i am curious, as we kind of take this seriously, the fil takes it seriously and we take it seriously today, what you say for those activists, as fellow activist who say, the had a point to make and it doesn t surprise them that the people who responded that way. i will make one more analogy as a thought experiment. there are people who thought fought for body camera t people respond by saying well, some of the police leadershi in the police unions, they hav a response to body cameras i double
let s look at the numbers. only 11% of the country s federal judges are black 7.7% of the country s federa judges are hispanic and ther are currently 16 states with n federal trial judges of color. back with this in new yor are the two filmmakers, rebecc richmond cohen and - recognize our next guest fro the documentary itself - the first black female judge i london, california, sworn in back in 1982 she is the author of her honor also with us is aisha sayeed simmons, a sexual assaul survivor and documentary filmmaker and creator of the love with accountability project aisha, i want to start with you first and foremost. as someone who has survive sexual salt, you watched thi sentence and you obviously had some questions this was a lenient sentence fo a crime of this nature but was incarceration or mor incarceration the answer here? or were there other alternativ methods of punishment that might have been explored yeah. thank you.
recall, right, they were pushing for a longer sentences that is what the motivatio was. i too, like aisha, i also, whe rebecca first tell me abou this project, my initial thing was, yeah, i remember bein outraged about this ligh sentencing so as women, and many people we were, there is a visceral you know, visceral thing of th sky wasn t punished enough for this horrible deed h committed. but when you understand, hopefully this film will b part of opening, getting peopl to open up the conversation, when you understand what tha actually means in terms of who it comes down on, harshe sentences and the fact tha justice, this idea of justic has not been, is not served by our system you know these are big questions which the film explores. because of our time constraints, that is where we leave this. you can see it right on th