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
for which brock turner will servsentence raul ramirez.t ramirez was a plea bargain. judge persky was not the judge who accepted the plea bargain and he was not the sentencing judge. but to the recall people, it didn t matter. - judge persky has shown a clear bias in favor of men of privilege, in favor of people who abuse women, rape women, and were asking that the commission on judicial performance, take action to remove judge persky. - the commission on judicial performance. the body that disciplines judges if they misbehave, if they engage in misconduct, did a thorough investigation into judge persky, into his track record, into the five cases alleged by the recall people to show bias, as well as his handling of the brock turner case. - [reporter] the commission on judicial performance cleared him of wrongdoing and found no clear evidence of bias or misconduct with his ruling. - there was no bias. it wasn t even a close case.
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