r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/MGLLN • 21h ago

Could probably hear the “FOH!!” from space

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u/KingBoyo 20h ago

I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I told my close friends immediately that I couldn’t be on that jury. I think the justice system isn’t nuanced enough to handle this, but I probably would’ve said guilty because I know for a fact black women aren’t getting that same grace and consideration.

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u/Nightthrasher674 20h ago

I would have said not guilty by reason of insanity. Following the case, the prosecution didn't do enough at all to prove that she wasn't insane and she took every avenue to get psychiatric help before the murders. Removing my own emotions aside it's basically the right thing to do. Clancy has fuck all to do with Latasha Sanders.

It's like the Dejuan Brown stabbing of Iryna Zarutska he's currently committed in a mental facility.

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u/TonyHawktuah69 19h ago

Her own husband said he didn’t marry a monster, he married a woman who became ill. He’s suing the hospital and her doctors into the ground in a civil suit over how they messed up her meds and evaluations.

By all accounts she loved those kids and her becoming mentally ill to the point she killed them in her psychosis is horrifying. Her mother in law and parents all came to support her during the trial. We have let right wing media talking points politicize a complicated case and it’s resulting in culture war bull shit or people just wanting to see punishment. The reality is the medical system failed this woman like it fails so many other women. And now we are letting the justice system fail her again by dragging this case into public and people wanting to kill and hurt a mentally ill woman just to satisfy their own sense of justice and revenge. The people closest to her and this case don’t even want that

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u/Nightthrasher674 19h ago

On one hand I can understand the annoyance of Clancy supporters who have turned the case into their own crime podcast and trying to pin it on her husband before the trial even started

At they same time, I don't have shit to do with them. She was clearly going through a psychosis and no other evidence says otherwise. I'm not needlessly putting a man or woman in prison for first degree murder. Clancy going to prison isn't helping out black women.

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u/100thBlade 19h ago

She was thinking clearly enough to get her husband out of the house on a pretext.

She was thinking clearly enough to kill the kids one at a time to retain control the situation.

She was thinking clearly enough to inflict superficial wounds on herself to make it look like a suicide attempt, but not deep enough to actually kill.

Idk.

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u/fennecdore 19h ago

She was thinking clearly enough to get her husband out of the house on a pretext.

She was thinking clearly enough to kill the kids one at a time to retain control the situation.

None of this is out of reach for someone going through psychosis. And that's also assuming that the psychosis didn't start after she sent her husband on an errands. She was routinely left alone with the kids, she didn't have to invent a reason.

She was thinking clearly enough to inflict superficial wounds on herself to make it look like a suicide attempt, but not deep enough to actually kill.

She still went into cardiac arrest, had to receive blood and she will likely spend the rest of her days in a wheelchair. She is alive because she is lucky.

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u/PoopyButt28000 14h ago

It feels like people are under the impression that someone going through psychosis just becomes an insane monster foaming at the mouth who can't think about anything other than destroying everything in front of them.

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u/SilntNfrno 7h ago

I was in psychosis for a solid 9 months due to drug abuse and the resulting sleep deprivation. Looking back on it my behavior was absolutely crazy, but at the time I thought I was 100% sane.

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u/Income-Rude 10h ago

What evidence would you need to see to be convinced she wasn’t in a psychosis?

Like how can someone prove that she wasn’t? You can’t prove a negative.

You can prove that she was, but you can’t prove that she wasn’t. Theoretically anything is possible and we can’t truly know what was happening in her head.

At some point the heinousness and complexity of the crime has got to inform on her state of mind. Anything is possible and maybe she was in a psychosis, but on some level if she is that functional in her psychosis, maybe it’s not a stretch to expect her to not kill anybody.

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u/showerbump 18h ago

didn't she google how to strangle someone in the time leading up to it?

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u/fennecdore 18h ago

Not do I am aware off but I could be wrong, if you find a source link it

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u/Normal_Ad8715 19h ago

Superficial? Isn't she paralyzed below the waist?

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u/Rigsson 16h ago

Shh, you're ruining his narrative.

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u/CantaloupeNo7083 18h ago

she jumped out of a window and is permanently paralyzed.

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u/RaindropBebop 8h ago

People commit murder-suicides all the time. The intent to kill themselves doesn't automatically absolve them of the murder. Especially when the murder and suicide are both premeditated.