let we covered um... moved the steubenville other case
uh... to the extent that uh... local anonymous and uh...
uh... different on a mission
groups within about a missus and chile uh... really brought this case to
national attention
and uh... many claim
of that without there
worker there would've been no court case
uh... frankly and
uh... but what is really been shocking i think about
this case beyond
the
the crime of rape that was committed
was what is shown
about the way our society and i guess maybe there shouldn't be surprise but on
some level it is just sort of just shocking
the
the perception that people have of rape in this country
and the way that are mainstream media looks at this stuff is just
i mean it's stunning
um...
so you have this case of raping steubenville where a a sixteen year old
other girl woman
uh... was of basically
used like uh... i mean it's alexa like a rag dot she was drunk semi-conscious on
conscious
uh...
and uh...
rate
by
these uh... members of i guess of the local football team
means that this is a town that has a history of cover-ups to protect members
of the football team yeah we spoke i think um... with uh... with the reporter
us sometime back i can remember who was who told us that there was a lot of
stuff going on a simple it was just a sort of uh...
on that
and
this uh... this case of course uh... garnered a lot of national tension
because a lot of video came out
of the reaction of other of football players
uh... and spoke with us
kristen great of alright and
of other players and their complete disregard for
relieving cream humanity of this victim
and
so the
the case got a lot of coverage of the verdict out a lot of coverage of the
ideas of the weekend
and what was stunning
was
after uh... the seventeen-year-old trent maze
and sixteen-year-old malik richmond
were sentence by the judge
they're found guilty of a raping the this sixteen-year-old girl while she was
unconscious
uh... i guess richmond will be a beard juvenile facility
until the age of twenty one days could be incarcerated at least until aged for
twenty four
listened
just to set this up i mean uh... c_n_n_ did a live report from the outside the
thing in the first it was
uh... candy crowley was angry at g_-three new
to any reporter drugs last emily was a harlan
and
the true nick me it was really a specific that she said that the tone of
carlos reporting
was so sympathetic
the rapists
in its totality was very very strange
and so candy crowley comes back anything she did sympathize with
harlow herself she said something which is that uh...
incredibly difficult to what are you having a highly difficult to watch these
two young men i mean a and
widsets promising future star football players very good students
literally watch is a bit believe their life fell apart i mean you can't sort of
described the drama of this on some level of course that's what the media
likes to do
but it's done from a very for me
least somewhat sympathetic perspective but it really comes into relief
one candy crowley
sets up an interview
with another gas right after this here is that idea
i'm having a harley soon ohio horse
i want to bring in pol call-in alan our c_n_n_ legal contributor
impala at the sixteen-year-old now it just sobbing in court all regardless
what big football players they are they still span sound like sixteen-year-old
as to the other one seventeen a sixteen year old victim thing here
has when you listen to it and you realize that they could stay until
they're twenty one they are going to get credit for time served what's the
lasting affect now on two young men being found guilty in juvenile court
of rate essentially
now mellow
break this down here for a minute okay
the firstgov
the sixteen-year-olds the other big football players but they're just kids
first off i want to go
the last time in the history
of ever
that c_n_n_ has reported on the conviction
of uh... sixteen and seventeen year old
african-american men
um who have committed a violent crime
with such sympathy
i mean we had ken burns on this program talking about the central park five
and these guys were almost lex sed
these guys who were younger
who were completely innocent
but yet because they were such they were star football players
because i mean i don't even understand that what's going through candy
crowley's head now yes okay they broke down
they committed
rodel
amelia inexplicably brutal rape
of this unconscious woman
um...
i spose you can say that you could you can express some measure of you know can
vanity dictates
uh... some expression of of some measure of
of of of sympathy i gas
where is the what how is that the first question
now that we no with uh... you know we have a legal conviction
this sixteen-year-old wallet
what is going to happen to hurt her life
patting arab in the victim of such a heinous crime having its uh... so uh...
widely known
her name one godly come out
this is not going to go away
and then to say rape essentially
what is that name
now they were convicted of rape
not essentially
not technically not mostly so rate
either steinway you know i i
it's just inexplicable members the producer saying hey
katie you know you wanna backed off
the sympathy for these rapists
you know i mean if you want to talk about some broader cultural influences
uh... that
ex-lover export any
this situation
they obviously don't
we leave these people that a guilt but
buddy but
to just talk about what like these
these kids' lives ur
really this is going to be tough for them to rebound from this rape
conviction the idea that somehow you know these kids had no agency because
they were drunk or what not
it's just an ic and this is i think just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what
you see in terms of the reaction
uh... to this case
in many quarters
can almost what will be
we put it this way
it's not hard to see
or to understand why you have people who are like
blaming the victim
blaming everything
but the perpetrators of this crime when you have the national media
perhaps
the most extensive coverage in the national media of this case would
probably be on c_n_n_
describing the plight
of these poor convicted rapists
it's just
i wasn't even that
you know it wasn't victim blaming it was literally
victim excluded
now the other just astonishing thing you can listen to the school clip we didn't
preparing this morning
i don't think the victim
was even indirectly mentioned once released several minutes i mean a very
little it it just wasn't enough
factor not
and the guy candy crowley invited on goes on to talk about how
mandates that many people that
sex offenders for the best in our lives how this will haunt goes to poor boys
it's like a randomly assigned thing yet when you commit a sex crime
and you were convicted of a you are a sign right a sex offender status because
you have committed a sex crime it's it's not as bizarre arbitrary feet that was
assigned down skidded stomach
it's it's really stunning i don't know where this where this comes from
i mean i don't stand how candy crowley can
because she's obviously not working on a script right i mean this is just sort of
like
the perspective and i geo understand the compulsion
to build a drama
and
to maintain the human the
humanity on some level
uh...
these criminals
uh...
this is just crossing the line
and
really stripping the victim
of her humanity it's just high it's i'd find it bizarre
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