After sexual assault acquittal, video emerges of Mateen Cleaves dragging naked woman into motel room (attorneys, accuse)
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How do you think he got off scott free from those charges?!!! If this was some 'nobody'/ average Joe smith down the street, and there was a video like this....he would be convicted in 5 minutes and be sent up for 20+ yrs.
Just curious, does anyone know how long the jury deliberated in this case? Im betting it was not long.
Whats also interesting about this case, people cannot put the blame on some judge, or the 'corrupt legal system', 'corrupt police', etc....this was a jury, made up of THEIR OWN PEERS...men and women from the community where it happened...that said he was not guilty!!!
How do you think he got off scott free from those charges?!!! If this was some 'nobody'/ average Joe smith down the street, and there was a video like this....he would be convicted in 5 minutes and be sent up for 20+ yrs.
This is pure speculation for which you have zero evidence.
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That is a concept promoted from within. Even in my high school basketball days the coach drilled into us that we were representative of the team and the school. So don’t sag your pants and set bad examples. Certainly don’t go raping women.
So you're telling me if someone from your high school basketball team rapes a woman 20 years later, that still somehow redounds onto the team today and people should stop supporting them? "Sorry kids, we can't support your team because someone who was on the team a generation ago did something really bad."
This is pure speculation for which you have zero evidence.
So you're telling me if someone from your high school basketball team rapes a woman 20 years later, that still somehow redounds onto the team today and people should stop supporting them? "Sorry kids, we can't support your team because someone who was on the team a generation ago did something really bad."
Give me a break.
Right, but it would be easy to check...court cases from the same county/state that involve rape, sexual assault, are all public domain, any citizen can access those records, to see how many other people have beaten the same charges (if any).
This is pure speculation for which you have zero evidence.
So you're telling me if someone from your high school basketball team rapes a woman 20 years later, that still somehow redounds onto the team today and people should stop supporting them? "Sorry kids, we can't support your team because someone who was on the team a generation ago did something really bad."
Give me a break.
2015 was not 20 years ago.
Yes the team reputation would be tarnished for a period of time, but not likely 20 years, correct.
By 2015 he still hadn't played college ball for 15 years, so I don't understand your point.
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Yes the team reputation would be tarnished for a period of time, but not likely 20 years, correct.
So the team can be forgiven for the sins of one of its players committed 20 years after he no longer played for the team, but not 15 years? When CAN a team be disassociated from the actions of its former players? is 17 years the cutoff?
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When you see something like this, you have to ask, "what was the jury told, to explain the video"?
What made the jury basically decide not to believe what their own eyes - and the impartial witness - were telling them?
And a follow up question: when the witness called police, presumedly to report a nearly nude woman was dragged against her will into a hotel room, and was pleading for help, why didn't that get top priority response from law enforcement? Why, did she run AGAIN out of the room 13 minutes later, presumedly with no cops showing up yet?
That is a concept promoted from within. Even in my high school basketball days the coach drilled into us that we were representative of the team and the school. So don’t sag your pants and set bad examples. Certainly don’t go raping women.
Yeah, your coach wasn't making $3mil/year plus endorsement deals and facing termination if the team doesn't do well.
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