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
yeah so, judge cordell, aish makes a great point. if this was slightly different and this was a man of colo convicted of raping a whit women, we might have gotten an entirely different sentence. here is a clip from 2015 o then president barack obam talking about the ways in whic the criminal justice systems penalties are more likely to b visited on black and brown men the bottom line is that int many places, white boys an black men, latino boys and latino man, experience being treated differently under th law. it is not as fair as it should be mass incarceration makes our country worse off. and we need to do somethin about it any system that allows us to turn a blind eye t hopelessness and despair, that is not a justice system, it is an injustice system. george, this is a case no only made clear that there may actually be two very different