(somber music) - [reporter 1] 20 year old swimming star brock turner - [reporter 2] the 19 year old former high school all-american 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 don t know me, but you ve been inside me and that s why we re here today. - the victim made headlines by releasing a heart wrenching letter detailing the rape and its aftermath. - [reporter] it s gotten over 15 million views on buzzfeed alone. - you don t know me, but you ve been inside me. - and that s why we re here today. - i was found unconscious with my hair disheveled, long necklace wrapped around my neck. - my bare skin and head had been rub
Pattern of sentencing, the effects aren t going to be o the next brock turner. because our criminal legal system suffers from systemic bias and racism, the effects are going to be and low income and people of color. we now know that to be true an so with this information i mind, we really wanted t change with the conversation was. at least some legal scholar were articulating some of thos concerns so i am gruber, who i a feminist law professor, ha always railed against what she calls the feminist war o crime. she has talked about the way i which this incarcerate feminis has in exacerbated the inequalities in the criminal justice system let s see a soundbite from ira right now. increasing sentencing broadening the f ignitions o crime, prosecuting were people we all have this imagination that it will get at th powerful privilege, criminal defenders. but criminal auden equalize criminal law does the opposite
Took anywhere, up next, msnb films presents recall, the refrain. aftermath of the controversial 2016 sentencing of stanfor swimmer brock turner subsequent removal of aaro frisky and the role of the criminal legal system in seeking justice for sexual assault victims, immediately following the film - speak with the filmmakers abou the social justice issue raised in the documentary. watch the recall, refrain, nex on msnbc it is also streaming o peacock. thank you for making time fo us, make sure to catch a man back with us saturday at eight sundays at nine, follow us o twitter, tiktok and instagra twitter, tiktok and instagra at eve (light music) (hooves trotting)
To the amount of sentencing they get. long sentences disproportionately affect people who are nothing like brock turner. - the people who suffer the most are low income and people of color. (melancholy music) - we ve seen judges stare families down in the face and say i m going to take your loved one away from you. those are the kind of judges who should be questioned. like who use incarceration as the first and only resort.
yeah. i think there are a valid, wid range of valid ways to fee about the sentence but the outrage that i think i so critical and so critical to talk about is the disparity in sentencing is what a white, privilege college kid got versus what lo income and people of color get so i genuinely believe tha there were well-intentione folks who were driving the recall who are angry about thes disparities in sentencing. but what we need to talk about was that recalling a judge didn t have the effect the wanted it to on attacking whit privilege. it had the counter effect. so i think we really need to step back and ask hard questions when we demand longe prison sentences about who i is going to affect and in addition, othe people who commit crimes should get the same kind o consideration. and low income, people of colo who are mostly through the, in the criminal justice system, should receive the same kind o consideration. you know, are these first-time offenders? what effect will it have o