The severity of her accusations are false and extremely harmful. I’m not sure she realizes the irreparable harm of her actions.

“Innocent until proven guilty” is the standard in a court of law, not in the court of public opinion.

I think the situation may be easier to grapple with if the interrogators were sociopaths hell-bent on framing a kid. The more discomforting expanation is that systems which replace human judgment and accountability with procedural authority may as a side effect produce such results. May even, in some corners of the…

At least in the job worked I believe that having an IQ below 70 and a 4th grade reading level would qualify as an intellectual or learning disability. I’m not in the posistion to diagnose obviously, but he reminded me strongly of many kids I worked with, and it was pretty clear he did not understand his situation, the…

I was also disgusted by the prosecutor’s “reasonable doubt is for innocent people”.

I find it really hard to comprehend the evil that was done to Brendan Dassey. I definitely was involved and emotional watching the series but I broke down in tears seeing the footage of him from this year, ten years into his sentence. The men who interrogated him, not to mention the prosecution are evil incarnate.…

It’s comforting to know 2015 will end as 2015 (1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, etc) started: with the state killing black bodies with no consequences and with the full backing of the state who review and “investigate” <— lol) themselves only to find that they did exactly what they are created to do. Oh, and also, the black…

McGinty sat there and fucking blamed the entire thing on Tamir and excused his police force for every one of their crimes. Fuck him, fuck the Cleveland DAs, fuck the Cleveland cops who haven’t spoken out on this, and fuck the Justice Department for not arresting the murderer themselves by now.

If someone is drunk, but aware enough to be actively engaged in having sex with someone then it’s probably not rape. I don’t see how you could predict whether someone is too drunk to remember what happened the next day unless they are pretty much unconscious. From my experience, blackouts are not easily predictable.

“Nothing is more important than the safety of our kids.”

If you are going to fall into a Christmas tree...really commit to it.

Perhaps a nitpick, but the Army can’t give a guy a dishonorable discharge without a conviction by a general court-martial (the great big kind he’s getting instead of the relatively minor special or really minor summary court-martial).

Shhh! No spoilers; don’t Jinx it!

Race is very important in this case because he specifically chose victims on the basis of their unlikelihood of being believed, and a major component of that was that they were black. It was unclear whether an all white jury would take the word of all black victims who were also poor and had criminal records over that…

I too found his reaction jarring and chilling and sickening in a way I couldn’t quite articulate. A true monster, crying like a toddler, looking for sympathy. The distance between that tantrum and taking his punishment like an adult is just... stunning and enraging.

THESE WHITE TEARS GIVE ME THE LIFE FORCE OF A THOUSAND SUNS

The jury only found him guilty on half of the charges. Think about it: if only six women had come forward, he probably would have walked free.

No I mean the dirty rapist cop himself doesn’t think he committed a crime even though he was in a position where it’s easier to commit the crime.

he mouthed “i didn’t do it” at the end—i think in the direction of the jury. seems like the act of someone who’s convinced he didn’t commit a crime and that these girls wanted what he did with them. he’s scum for thinking that obviously. but i’m not so sure his tears are about taking responsibility so much as shock…

Disagree. We can celebrate justice because it happens so infrequently. You’re on Jez you know the rape conviction stats. Dirty cop conviction stats are pretty low as well. This guy isn’t anguished because he did horrible things, he is anguished because he got caught and he thought he was going to get off because he’s…