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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...

As one Colorado deputy faces a murder charge in the killing of Christian Glass – who was fatally shot after calling 911 in June 2022 – six more are being prosecuted for failing to intervene. Another has already pleaded guilty. New laws are casting a wider net across law enforcement in excessive force cases – with broader implications for policing, reports Sheila Flynn

FAILING TO INTERVENE: As one Colorado deputy faces a murder charge in the killing of Christian Glass – who was fatally shot after calling 911 in June 2022 – six more are being prosecuted for failing to intervene. Another has already pleaded guilty. New laws are casting a wider net across law enforcement in excessive force cases – with broader implications for policing, reports Sheila Flynn

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Was to quench the publics 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, thats not what i think the feminist movement should be about. - it wasnt that brock turner didnt deserve the kind of careful analysis that the judge gave him. its that everyone does. - [crowd] (chanting) what do we do? stand up, fight back. while b...

Pattern of sentencing, the effects arent 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 femin...

- i absolutely think that white privilege informed the brock turner case, but in ways that are complicated. the sentencing guidelines recognize that he was a college student, that people saw with potential, with no record. and this stands in contrast to how this system would see a 19 year old black kid from a poor neighborhood whos a defendant. increasing sentencing, broadening the definitions of crimes prosecuting more people, we all have this imagination that it will get at the powerful, privi...