(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
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.
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)
Live every moment. glucerna. as soon as the recall was announced, an imperial study found that sentences i california immediately increased by 30% long sentences disproportionately affected wh are not like brock turner. the people who suffer the most are low income and people of color welcome back to our continuing special coverag here of this new msnbc documentary, the recal re-framed which back class after that lenien sentence of the convicte rapist brock turner for just six months in jail that was a sentence man deemed too lenient but studies show that mass incarceration is not the solution and many legal experts say the problem is not with the judg himself, but with the system and with who is making those decisions.
The position that there should be a recall, because they just wanted more punishment and if they couldn t get mor punishment for mr. turner, the wanted to take it out on the judge. and they did they were more punitive, thi judge lost his job and then there were those of u on the other side who said tha is not a system that we want because in the long term, when you have a recall, tha punishes adjusts for doing something that is lawful although controversial, you en up getting a system that i more punitive and those who ar the recipients of that punishment of that harsher system are generally going t be people of color and peopl of low income. let me jonge jump in an bring aisha and to this part o the conversation the movie refers to the idea tha we ll, when you have thi recall, other judges who w just showed, are overwhelmingl not representative of the whol community, but a lot of frankly, white guy judges then responde