There is a show called SNAPPED.
Here is how it is described.
Each episode of this true-crime reality series examines a different felon, usually a female, who has committed murder or attempted murder. The victim is usually the perpetrator’s partner. The documentary-style series features interviews with friends and family members of the accused and victims, law-enforcement officials, attorneys and other people with first-hand knowledge of the cases.
They have other shows like Deadly Women and things of that nature. No different from Forensic Files and things that come on Discovery ID that feature mostly men.
The interesting thing about SNAPPED and shows like that which I have noticed over the years is the jail sentences.
Similar crimes committed by women get far less jail time than their male counterparts. We are talking usually murder, attempted murder and felony assaults. These are serious crimes, but not equal sentences.
The ideal society would be one where everyone is treated equally. Punishments would fit the crime. The police would actually protect and serve the community.
But, we don’t live in an ideal society do we?
We live in a society that is violent, racist, prejudice and where people of authority are corrupt. We live in a society where athletes routinely commit crimes and get away with it. If you are talented enough at some universities you can figuratively get away with murder.
So, people have a right to get upset and a right to raise an eyebrow when athletes are accused of certain things. They should be punished just like if you and I committed that crime.
You can’t hit women.
No matter what the law says you can do, you can’t do it. You can’t even think it, you can’t even come close, you can’t touch them.
Unless your life is in grave danger, you have to walk away. Just the way it is, sometimes it isn’t fair, but life isn’t fair. It isn’t fair, I get nervous any time I see police even if I am not doing anything wrong, but that is life. Don’t put your hands on a woman EVER.
QB De’Andre Johnson made a very bad decision in a situation that should have been handled a lot differently. You have to think, you have to use your brain. He wasn’t in any danger, there was no threat to his life and he had his whole future ahead of him. He reacted and you have to live with your actions. You hit a woman with the force he did, you have to live with the consequences whatever they might be, jail time included. I don’t feel sorry for him, I don’t condone his actions, I am not making any excuses for him. He is old enough to know better, he is a young adult, you don’t punch women in the face. He’s young, hopefully this never happens again and he has learned his lesson. It is going to be a hard lesson to learn, he was kicked out of school, whatever NFL potential he has may never be realized because he reacted to a situation he could have walked away from. All over a bump at the bar. It should never be that serious.
If you are a young person reading this and watching the video, don’t be the next Johnson, don’t be the next Ray Rice.
WALK AWAY….
While Johnson has to deal with the repercussions of his actions, the woman in the video isn’t dealing with any.
Which goes back to the point, if we want equality why aren’t we treating violence equally. She strikes Johnson, it is clear, there is no way around saying she didn’t. Witnesses says she called him a nigger and kneed him in the groin.
People are saying “it doesn’t matter what she did”, it matters because we are human. We would like to think all of us would handle the situation properly, but no one can say it until they are in the situation. Very easy to say what you would do knowing the potential outcome, much more difficult in real time to have a calm reaction to someone calling you a nigger and punching you in your face.
You shouldn’t HIT anyone. He shouldn’t have hit back, by why is one action behind denounced and the other action being condoned.
Because she is a woman? Because her blow wasn’t a concussive as his blow?
Switch the situations.
If Johnson slapped her, called her a bitch, she punched him and broke his eye socket, would she had been arrested? Would people say, it didn’t matter what Johnson did, because his eye socket is broke and you should never put your hands on a man?
Violent behavior can be had by anyone male or female. Both should be treated seriously and equally, because when it isn’t it empowers women to physically assault men because they know there will be no repercussions legally.
No one should be assaulting anyone, regardless of the degrees of assault.
Simple rule, keep your hands to yourself no matter what your gender is.