Adversarial proceedings lend themselves to this kind of self-serving legal wrangling. In the context of sexual assault, it is exceedingly ugly and harmful (mostly for the victim). I wish we could move to a different accountability/justice system.

I would argue that’s also his weakness, though - he’s too susceptible to having his analysis be colored by his anger at the supporters of a given candidate. He and his compatriot Harry Enten completely lost their cool with Bernie Sanders supporters and it colored all of their coverage from then on. That’s not being…

I think it’s known in Chicago that Derrick isn’t a very bright dude and that he doesn’t really speak for himself and lets his handlers do most of the talking. It’s also come out that he’s kind of a weird guy too. I can’t tell if he has no concept of what’s going on or if he’s really trying to hide what happened.

Total witch-hunt. This kind of stuff happens all the time in the NFL and we always just look the other way. Kind of surprised to see this behaviour in the NBA to be honest. What can you do though? These teams need their stars to make money for them. It’s a vicious circle but it’s gotta break eventually.

How is a University supposed to respond to the actions of a crazy person who sprayed racist graffiti? Whoever did it is a troll. Are Universities supposed to be at fault because some few people at their campus harbor racist tendencies? It’s never going to be perfect. There will never a grouping of people who aren’t…

well you are a moron and an asshole then, please go fuck yourself

how many of these assholes know the cop that pulled the trigger is black? how many times is that mentioned?

The industry-wide problem is hand-wringing white guilt.

It’s a visually appealing poster. I’m like... an Irish Jew, so I’m not offended by it, but I can see why Native Americans would be (if they are). I’ll refrain from commenting further until I hear how the Native American community feels about it. But seriously, good job on the poster.

Because it is OK, and should be, because it doesn’t change history. If 1%of people are offended by this, that 1% should shoot themselves for being miserable insufferable pricks

What inside info do you have on this case that the DAd office doesn’t?

Yes. I believe there was a good deal of evidence proving that at best, she was lying. Very weird that they completely avoid mentioning it in the article.

I wasn’t following this case too carefully but didn’t he or someone else post screenshots of the woman proving he was innocent? Or was that a different case?

Deadspin: Where you’re guilty until proven innocent, and even then we’ll still drag your name through the mud.

It’s pointless to compare individual cases between different counties, let alone different states (it sounds like you live in some shithole that doesn’t have a Romeo and Juliet exception for mandatory registration). I can name plenty of wealthy white men I’ve seen sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for sex crimes…

The high school sports aspect is what caused deadspin to publish the article. A thousand other people were probably sentenced for sex crimes today that could have been covered.

I don’t have a problem with social justice warriors who actually do things in real life. I am perturbed by people who base their view of the entire criminal justice system on a few high profile cases they read about on the Internet and do nothing to cause change other than write pithy comments. At the very least spent…

So does the fact that he merely played high school sports make him sufficiently privileged to make him, his lawyers, and the judge appropriate targets for an online shame campaign? I’m struggling to see how this is a story of national importance. All it will do is stoke the flames of keyboard social justice warriors…

So this police inspector, from the totally above board, not corrupt at all, and with no reason to push a certain narrative, SAYS the swimmers lied and tells his own story and automatically we’re supposed to go “aha! THAT must be the truth.” Oh, he also completely blames the guy who isn’t present to contradict his…

Except this is 100% new information. When the judge asked them to surrender their passport it was explicitly on the basis of conflicting accounts and not looking upset enough on CCTV after the fact. If the judge had said “don’t leave the country because we have a complaint against your behavior” from a business owner…