r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/MGLLN • 21h ago

Could probably hear the “FOH!!” from space

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u/MGLLN 20h ago

"He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children. This is a woman who lived her full life and that was all he cared about"

From an interview featuring 3 of the jurors

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u/Luis0224 20h ago edited 17h ago

"She went 40 years without murdering someone, why should 3 murders in a single day ruin her life"

The jurors were brain dead

Edit - i know what the argument for not guilty was. I'm saying if this was any other combination of gender/race/ethnicity, this would've been a slam dunk for the prosecution. Male? Guilty. Black/latino/asian/middle Eastern woman? Guilty.

The only reason this wasn't an open and shut case was because she was a white woman. This lady had access to therapy, was well supported financially, had a nanny, and was in a much better position to get the help she needed than a majority of people in America. There's no excuse for murdering 3 children, full stop.

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u/Finito-1994 19h ago

It’s literally the same argument people did for Brock turner. I think it’s literally the same one his dad did.

I’m paraphrasing but they said something along the lines of 15 minutes shouldn’t throw away almost 20 years of his life

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u/GTB5510 18h ago

It's even worse. His father phrased it as "15 minutes of action"