The justice system that some like to say is equal for all proves once again it really only protects the rich and powerful.
Brock Turner is a rapist, but everyone in this case including the judge seemed to care more about his future than what he did to victim.
He didn’t just rape her, he thought it was a joke.
The court records include testimony from police officials and the two men who intervened, all of which establish that Turner had assaulted a woman, aged 22 at the time of the assault, who was visibly unconscious and who awoke hours later with no memory.
Deputy Jeff Taylor said that when he approached the woman, “I tried to verbally ask, you know, ‘Are you OK? Can you hear me?’ And I was getting no response. So I started doing it quite a bit louder, basically to the point of yelling at her to see if I could get any response whatsoever. And I didn’t get anything.”
Peter Jonsson, one of two graduate students hailed as a hero for rescuing the victim, testified that “she looked asleep”, according to the transcript. Turner tried to run away “as fast as he could” when they approached, Jonsson said.
After they stopped Turner, Jonsson continued: “I noticed that he was smiling. So I said, ‘Why are you smiling? Stop smiling.’ … I said, again, ‘What are you doing? She’s unconscious.’”
Questioned by prosecutor Alaleh Kianerci about Jonsson’s claims that Turner smiled, the defendant said, “I was laughing at the situation of how ridiculous it was.”
Brock Turner thought it was “ridiculous” that he was being stopped for raping an unconscious woman.
Just let that sink into your mind.