Just another reason why black people need to break away from religion. As long as we stick so closely to those Christian ideals forcibly beaten into us we will always be tied and adhere to white supremacy.
I can't believe we are blaming religion for family attempting to reach closure by acting forgiving and not being angry enough for the crowd outside. I mean isnt that the hardest thing ? To forgive the one who deserves it least at that moment ? That's peak humanity
No.Just another reason why black people need to break away from religion. As long as we stick so closely to those Christian ideals forcibly beaten into us we will always be tied and adhere to white supremacy.
Friendly reminder, this dude got more.
Similar cases in that it was a hot headed response to a harmless person.
Spot the differences in the victim and cop tho
Yeah it should have been more severe, but it's extremely more palatable then getting off.5 years in prison minimum is definitely not nothing. I'm not so much angry at her sentence as I am the way worse sentences punishing nonwhite folks for doing what would be otherwise banal crimes.
I'm always very conflicted in situations like this because only white (or rich) people are afforded the relative leniency I'd prefer to see across the boardThis is what im most upset about.
I could get 30 years for looking at a white woman wrong, while smoking a joint.
It's more like people see it as the visual symbol of the light sentence. Murder in cold blood? Ah poor baby, here's some compassion. I'm upset at the jury more than anyone, with the judge a close second.using the brother's forgiveness as a shield for injustice is disgusting, but so is calling him naive and brainwashed and infantilizing him by reducing his act of forgiveness as closure seeking or grief processing or whatever. listen to his mom's speech and tell me the family doesn't understand the gravity of the injustice and corruption. what the brother did wasn't easy and didn't come from a place of weakness.
meanwhile in TexasI'm really surprised. Texas is well known for throwing the book at felons convicted of murder.
Not cops....I'm really surprised. Texas is well known for throwing the book at felons convicted of murder.
Imagine if it was a white male officer...So that's the price of the life of an innocent black man murdered while he was just eating ice cream and chilling in his home. Disgusting.
You hate to see it.
Allison Jean's speech was both inspiring and heartbreaking.
10 fucking years for the murderer that took her son's life.
Shit will just never fucking change and it makes me sick.
You could just come out and say that women are more likely to receive sympathy from people than men are but this not the way to do it.
Both should've been locked away for 25 to life.
They killed an innocent person. What more can you take from an innocent person than their life?
The commonality here is that they are both cops.
Alright. In the meantime, before this fated fixing of the justice system, black people should continue to enjoy disproportionate sentencing compared to white, cop counterparts and just shrug when sentencings like Guyger's happen again, and again, and again.So in this case, she is serving five years minimum before parole, which when compared to a parallel case of a person of color is probably going to be shockingly low, but that's the entire point of fixing our justice system. It's not to make sentencing longer for others as some type of "payback", it's to make sentencing just for everyone.
Alright. In the meantime, before this fated fixing of the justice system, black people should continue to enjoy disproportionate sentencing compared to white, cop counterparts and just shrug when sentencings like Guyger's happen again, and again, and again.
If a murder was a "hot headed" action that caused the death of a person, then shouldn't the sentence be both based on severity of the crime and chance of recommitting once back in society?
Part of the need to reform prisons isn't just remove the bullshit of private prisons or non-violent offenders, but the need to actually have our penal system attempt to reform people and not just be a punishment. Obviously if someone is a risk to society their length changes, but this is a case that is essentially a 2nd degree murder (which isn't a thing in Texas but the situation presented shows it's more similar to a non-predetermined murder than a predetermined one).
2nd Degree murder ranges in a lot of states, but 10 years with parole isn't exactly that outlandish, although it's on the low end of time for some states.
So in this case, she is serving five years minimum before parole, which when compared to a parallel case of a person of color is probably going to be shockingly low, but that's the entire point of fixing our justice system. It's not to make sentencing longer for others as some type of "payback", it's to make sentencing just for everyone.
Fixing the system is giving her 10 years in which she will likely serve 5 for literally gunning down a innocent black man in his apartment?
Just last year a black man in Mississippi got hit with 8 years for having weed on him and I'm supposed to believe that the system can be commensurate with whatever it deems as just?
remember reading an article saying the judge pulled a fast one and was gonna go hard on this girl. nope she was always trying to go easy on her and probably wanted her to get less time.
I genuinely don't understand how anyone can be even the least bit surprised by this at this point.