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
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was to quench the public s thirst for punishment. (dramatic music) and for vengeance. do we want a legal system that does that? hell no. if we look historically, it was people of color and low income people who got slammed in the courts. as a feminist, that s not what i think the feminist movement should be about. - it wasn t that brock turner didn t deserve the kind of careful analysis that the judge gave him. it s that everyone does. - [crowd] (chanting) what do we do? stand up, fight back. while black men are under attack. (crowd chanting in background) - [police officer] this assembly is unlawful. you are ordered to disperse. - [prof gruber] today we have a real opening, because of the tireless work of racial justice, grassroots advocates, but other forces can push back on that momentum.
New York, Mar 18 (EFE).- Activists gathered outside New York city hall on Friday to demand that Mayor Eric Adams and city council members redirect funds from the police department to social programs. The protest, organized by Grassroots Advocates for Neighborhood Groups & Solutions (GANGS) to coincide with a virtual preliminary budget hearing of the …