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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."

 

[Hux]

It makes me smile when they call him a white supremacist.

Like, they do realize he’s jewish, right?

They do, but like Asians, Jews are the Schrodinger's Minority for these people; they love to parade them as poor, oppressed and marginalized in the face of whoever they see as White Supremacist, but as soon as said White Supremacists are out of the picture, they're more than happy to toss said Jew under the nearest bus that speeds past them

 

[MediocreMilt]

I must be completely out of touch with what bigotry is, because even before you take MM's spin into account, half of these are just saying something about race etc. but not actually being racist. Take this for example:

Knowles claimed, “A lot of Democrats these days don’t like Jews. They have antipathy for Jews, and they have a racial preference for Arabs.” [The Michael Knowles Show, 5/14/19]

Very clear reference to the soft hands used with Ilhan Omar and to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict in general.
I mean I just don't get it. Is accusing other people of anti-semitism somehow racist?

 

[Vorhtbame]

I must be completely out of touch with what bigotry is, because even before you take MM's spin into account, half of these are just saying something about race etc. but not actually being racist. Take this for example:



Very clear reference to the soft hands used with Ilhan Omar and to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict in general.
I mean I just don't get it. Is accusing other people of anti-semitism somehow racist?

White people breathing is racist these days.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Klavan said, “Transgender women aren’t women ... and the only way you can maintain that fallacy is if you silence people who disagree.” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 1/31/19]
According to Klavan, “Leftism basically implants its newspeak, its white lies, into our language by insisting that it’s impolite and hurtful” to not address people by the gender and name they identify with. Klavan also said, “You can cut your body into 17 different pieces, you still will not change your gender. Every cell you have is of a specific gender.” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 4/12/19]
Klavan argued that “if gay people are going to come on board, they have to subscribe … to the founding ideas” by accepting the fundamental principles of religious liberty. [The Andrew Klavan Show, 7/3/19]
Klavan warned that “these gay activists are out there prowling like lions” to corrupt Christian children with their “terrible, terrible culture” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 7/19/19]

Not a single one of these statements is incorrect. I guess I gotta start reading this Andrew Klaven shit, unless it's all videos, then fuck him in his gay ass.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

Then don’t read it, dipshit.
And I don’t read or listen to him, but I love Ben Shapiro. Something about him is just so funny to me.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Klavan said that the female body was made to attract men.

Hey, MediaMatters. There's a zany new theory called 'Evolution' that's all the rage these days. It could just be a fad, but you might want to look into it.

 

[CamelCursive]

If I'm ever concerned about the accuracy of practicality of one of my thoughts or opinions, and really want to make sure that it's something based in reality- I just say it out loud, and when a liberal says "RACIST!", I know I'm spot on.

Liberals truly are the greatest "sanity check" mechanism.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

>Media Matters

Literally should have stopped there.

And to think that at one point I was actually worried about their ability to influence via propaganda. Now I see that pretty much everyone of importance has wised up to them, and they've just become another leftist digital tabloid.

 

[IV 445]

>Media Matters

Literally should have stopped there.

And to think that at one point I was actually worried about their ability to influence via propaganda. Now I see that pretty much everyone of importance has wised up to them, and they've just become another leftist digital tabloid.

My last sperging about MM,

They were once a nationally recognized outfit about 11-10 years ago. Fox News liked to prop them up as far left maniacs, and the rest would actually use MM sometimes as a source. (They may still? Haven’t kept up)

They both quietly stopped doing this when they realized they are just a never-ending shit spigot.

 

[Irwin M. Felcher]

And how exactly is this a racist statement?

A white guy said it.

 

[Far Queue]

They do, but like Asians, Jews are the Schrodinger's Minority for these people; they love to parade them as poor, oppressed and marginalized in the face of whoever they see as White Supremacist, but as soon as said White Supremacists are out of the picture, they're more than happy to toss said Jew under the nearest bus that speeds past them

That's true of any minority group though. For example, Asians get fucked if they want to go to a good college, and despite decades of complaining about needing to do more, progressives have only hurt black communities with their misguided policies. Probably more so than crack cocaine ever did. They don't care that their bread and circuses rhetoric doesn't actually solve any problems, because it just means that they can keep promising it. They've completely thrown blacks under the bus with their open boarder policy nonsense which is going to hurt the groups of people competing for low skill jobs the most.

Thomas Sowell's The Vision of the Anointed describes these people to a T. They believe themselves to be virtuous and as a result their actions moral and just, even in the face of all evidence to the contrary. The following quote from the book sums up the idiocy of that group quite nicely: "To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by 'society'."

 

[Autopsy]

Why are they signal boosting these statements, and without even attempting contextualization at that? Most of the time you do a hit-piece article, you don't want to introduce the original argument until you have thoroughly shat all over the originators of said argument. It doesn't help that a majority of the statements even as they are paraphrased are popular opinions with their Republican base, and there are a few that are popular opinions with everyone, in general.

Oh, shit! Klavan is a racist/bigot! Look at him saying things like Obama 'didn't feel like he was one of us' which was literally a big part of Obama's own ghost-written autobiography!
Look at Klavan saying you shouldn't ban actual children from dressing up as the Black Panther over adult hate crimes!
I can't believe Klavan doesn't think deviating from societal norms magically changes your biological sex! He has the gall to object to 'newspeak'!
Wow, this Knowles guy seems like bad news! He thinks that women need to take part in the bodily responsibility that goes hand in hand with bodily autonomy! I bet he thinks you should have to vaccinate, too!
I can't believe Knowles believes that Arabs don't like Jews, their historic and present-day opponent, and that a party with increasingly Arabiphilic tendencies might be antisemitic! That's antisemitic!
I can't believe Knowles believes that the nature of the migrants entering the country will alter the ethics of the country, which is common sense and was the foundation of our immigration and naturalization requirements for a century!
Wow, Walsh asserted that most men already knew not to rape!
Walsh even said that it was the woman's right to choose whether something was sexist, harassment, assault, or rape! That's a feminist sexist view!

I just don't get it.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Why are they signal boosting these statements, and without even attempting contextualization at that? Most of the time you do a hit-piece article, you don't want to introduce the original argument until you have thoroughly shat all over the originators of said argument. It doesn't help that a majority of the statements even as they are paraphrased are popular opinions with their Republican base, and there are a few that are popular opinions with everyone, in general.

Oh, shit! Klavan is a racist/bigot! Look at him saying things like Obama 'didn't feel like he was one of us' which was literally a big part of Obama's own ghost-written autobiography!
Look at Klavan saying you shouldn't ban actual children from dressing up as the Black Panther over adult hate crimes!
I can't believe Klavan doesn't think deviating from societal norms magically changes your biological sex! He has the gall to object to 'newspeak'!
Wow, this Knowles guy seems like bad news! He thinks that women need to take part in the bodily responsibility that goes hand in hand with bodily autonomy! I bet he thinks you should have to vaccinate, too!
I can't believe Knowles believes that Arabs don't like Jews, their historic and present-day opponent, and that a party with increasingly Arabiphilic tendencies might be antisemitic! That's antisemitic!
I can't believe Knowles believes that the nature of the migrants entering the country will alter the ethics of the country, which is common sense and was the foundation of our immigration and naturalization requirements for a century!
Wow, Walsh asserted that most men already knew not to rape!
Walsh even said that it was the woman's right to choose whether something was sexist, harassment, assault, or rape! That's a feminist sexist view!

I just don't get it.

These are the same people who thought re-airing Trump speeches and commercials was a good strategy to beat him. They live in a bubble that they think represents the world. They thought all those Trump voters just had never heard anything the dude said and just went based on his name, because that's how they characterize normal people. Just dumbass flyover blue collar lowest common denominator reality TV watchers.

They still seem to believe this is the case, so I hope to watch them get brutally kicked in the face by reality in 2020.

 

[Anonymous For This]

Danny Trejo pulled a baby out of a wrecked car in LA.

I know some people who have met and worked with him. He's supposedly a super cool and down to earth dude.

 

[break these cuffs]

I don't understand why idiot reTHUGlicans believe crazy conspiracy theories where Seth Rich was murdered. It was obviously a mugging. There had been a series of armed robberies in Rich's neighborhood. People are typically beat up then shot twice in the back and don't have any of their belongings taken in a mugging, right? Like the other robberies in the area, right?

...he had two shots to his back, and yet they never took anything...

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/npr-libel-seth-rich-1452707
Judge greenlights libel suit against NPR over Seth Rich reports

A federal judge has rejected National Public Radio’s bid to dismiss a Texas investment adviser’s libel suit over news reports about conspiracy theories surrounding the death of a Democratic National Committee staffer during the 2016 campaign.

Judge Amos Mazzant of U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled Wednesday that the $57 million suit brought by Ed Butowsky makes plausible claims that the network may be liable for defamation for a series of online stories about Butowsky’s role in publicizing assertions that the murdered DNC staffer, Seth Rich, may have been involved in leaking Democratic emails.

NPR’s attorneys argued that the reports by NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik accurately described a separate, prior lawsuit filed by Rod Wheeler, a private investigator and former Washington, D.C., homicide detective whom Butowsky hired to explore the Rich case and who wound up suing Fox News and Butowsky for defamation after accusing Fox of fabricating quotations in a story about Rich’s murder.

Fox eventually retracted the online story it published, although Fox News prime-time host Sean Hannity publicly declared that he was not retracting his statements about Rich’s murder, including unproven claims that Rich might have been killed because of some role in leaking Democratic National Committee emails that U.S. officials say Russia hacked into and handed off to WikiLeaks.

Rich's parents also sued Fox News and Butowsky for defamation over their roles in the Fox reports. A federal judge in New York dismissed that case, but the ruling is on appeal.

In his 37-page ruling Wednesday, Mazzant said Butowsky’s suit against NPR, Folkenflik and top NPR editors met the legal standard to proceed.

“Plaintiff has alleged sufficient facts which plausibly show the Reports were not fair, true, and impartial accounts of the Wheeler complaint,” Mazzant wrote. “Additionally, even if the statements are considered a true report of the Wheeler complaint, as Defendants argue, the organization of the comments combined with the speculative commentary imply wrongdoing.”

Most worrisome for NPR may be the judge’s conclusion that Butowsky did not appear to qualify as a public figure as a result of his financial support for Wheeler’s probe and various actions taken to publicize it. If the judge persists in that view, the network could lose the protections that normally shield news outlets from liability when reporting on matters of public concern.

“At this stage of the proceedings, the facts do not show Plaintiff had anything more than a tangential role in the controversy surrounding the Seth Rich investigation,” the judge wrote.

The ruling means the lawsuit will proceed to the discovery process, including demands for documents and depositions from the journalists involved, Butowsky and others. Both sides in the case filed a motion Wednesday to facilitate that fact-gathering.

NPR spokeswoman Isabel Lara downplayed the significance of the judge’s decision and said the network remained confident in the stories.

“This is an early ruling,” Lara said in a statement. “NPR stands behind its reporting and will continue to defend the lawsuit vigorously. NPR is a public service news organization. We are a trusted source of information for millions of Americans and we take this responsibility very seriously, as we did in this coverage.”

An attorney for Butowsky, Ty Clevenger, said he hoped the decision would prompt NPR to resolve the case.

“If NPR and Folkenflik are smart, they will try to settle quickly,” the attorney said.

NPR argued that many of the claims in its reports, like assertions that Fox’s reporting on the Rich murder was “baseless” and “fake news,” amounted to opinion and not the kind of factual claims that can be the basis for a libel suit.

But Mazzant disagreed.

“The statements made by Folkenflik were made as verifiable statements of fact,” the judge wrote. “The statements at issue were not merely expressing a subjective view. Looking at the context of the verifiable facts, nothing shows the statements expressed Folkenflik’s opinion or merely offer Folkenflik’s personal perspective on disputed facts.”

Clevenger said he thinks the ruling “bodes well” for several other libel suits Butowsky is pursuing, including against CNN, Vox and The New York Times, as well as Wheeler and his attorneys.

The cases are all pending before Mazzant, who is an appointee of President Barack Obama. The judge was nominated in 2014 as part of a compromise with Texas’ Republican senators. Mazzant has repeatedly been sought out by conservative litigants seeking to challenge Obama policies.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

There's a guy who stabbed 2 women in Pittsburgh, one of them was a Muslim wearing a hijab. They caught a suspect and it's a black guy. This news won't go very far since it don't fit the narrative.

Double Stabbing: One Killed, Another Injured In Downtown Pittsburgh

Two women were stabbed, one fatally, right in front of a police officer late Thursday morning in the middle of downtown Pittsburgh.

pittsburgh.cbslocal.com

Double Stabbing: One Killed, Another Injured In Downtown Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Two women were stabbed, one fatally, right in front of a police officer late Thursday morning in the middle of downtown Pittsburgh.
The incident was reported around 11:40 a.m. at 6th and Smithfield Streets, at a Port Authority bus shelter. The scene is not far from a Rite Aid, Burlington Coat Factory and the entrance to the Duquesne Club.

According to witnesses, a least one of the victims may have been wearing a hijab, a garment worn by Muslim women.
The name of the woman killed has not been released.

According to Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert, a Zone 1 police officer was patrolling the area when he noticed a woman sleeping under a bus shelter.
The officer turned his patrol car around to check on the woman.
Chief Schubert says as the officer was talking with her, the suspect came around his back and struck the woman with a knife. The suspect then turned around and stabbed a second woman.

 

[Male Idiot]

Brutal Animal Cruelty Cases Shock Hungary

A 68-year-old woman living in Balotaszállás was dragging a large dog tied to a car on the road, Kiskunhalas Police Department received a report on Monday. The animal was tied to the rear bumper of the vehicle with baling twine, as the woman was driving off, police said on its website. At first...

hungarytoday.hu

There have been several cases of animal abuse in Hungary's rural bumfuck areas and it is generating an outrage that politics could not manage. Warning, graphic content. Also there is apparently at least one skinhead (though not assuredly right wing) group going around and intimidating animal abusers.

The rich peasant woman is apparently known for treating person or animal alike harshly, and is not loved in the village. She is now under protective custody and 1% of the entire population signed a petition for harsh punishment and more comprehensive anti brutality police action.

Her defense is apparently "I punished my horse the same way and it lived." Which propably alludes that her car is shit.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Brutal Animal Cruelty Cases Shock Hungary

A 68-year-old woman living in Balotaszállás was dragging a large dog tied to a car on the road, Kiskunhalas Police Department received a report on Monday. The animal was tied to the rear bumper of the vehicle with baling twine, as the woman was driving off, police said on its website. At first...

hungarytoday.hu

There have been several cases of animal abuse in Hungary's rural bumfuck areas and it is generating an outrage that politics could not manage. Warning, graphic content. Also there is apparently at least one skinhead (though not assuredly right wing) group going around and intimidating animal abusers.

The rich peasant woman is apparently known for treating person or animal alike harshly, and is not loved in the village. She is now under protective custody and 1% of the entire population signed a petition for harsh punishment and more comprehensive anti brutality police action.

Her defense is apparently "I punished my horse the same way and it lived." Which propably alludes that her car is shit.

Shitty as she is, Hungary is still more normal than the West.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

Klavan said that the female body was made to attract men.

Hey, MediaMatters. There's a zany new theory called 'Evolution' that's all the rage these days. It could just be a fad, but you might want to look into it.

"Men like tits"

 

[Cloacan]

Cyntoia Brown Released From Prison After Life Sentence Commuted - Breaking911

NASHVILLE – Early this morning offender Cyntoia Denise Brown was released from the Tennessee Prison for Women. Former Governor Bill Haslam commuted the sentence of Brown on January 7, 2019. Per the commutation, Brown has now been released to parole supervision. As part of this commutation, there...

breaking911.com

NASHVILLE – Early this morning offender Cyntoia Denise Brown was released from the Tennessee Prison for Women. Former Governor Bill Haslam commuted the sentence of Brown on January 7, 2019. Per the commutation, Brown has now been released to parole supervision. As part of this commutation, there are several conditions that must be met including:

• Compliance with an approved release plan,
• Maintain employment or educational enrollment once placed on parole,
• Participate in regular counseling sessions, and
• Maintain a regular commitment to community service.

On the night of August 6, 2004, 16-year-old Brown met 43-year-old Johnny Michael Allen in the parking lot of a Sonic Drive-In on Murfreesboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. Allen was a real estate broker and a United States Army veteran. Based on what Brown told investigators, Allen asked her if she was hungry and if she was homeless. Brown answered yes to both questions and accepted Allen’s offer to take her to his house. Brown and Allen ordered dinner and Allen drove the pair to his home. At a later hearing, Brown testified that she agreed to have sex with Allen for $150, but claimed that they never actually engaged in sexual intercourse. At some point during the encounter Brown shot Allen in the back of the head using her .40-caliber handgun. She then left the house in Allen’s Ford F-150 in possession of Allen’s wallet, containing $172, and two of his firearms. Brown left the truck at a Wal-Mart parking lot and flagged down an SUV for a ride home. Police later found Brown at the nearby Intown Suites.

Brown maintains she feared for her life during their encounter.

Countdown to reoffense begins! But first a Gofundme to fuel her upcoming drug binge.

Cyntoia Brown 'Second chance fund' raises $22,000 to help her during parole

Organizer Gabby Cannone created a "second chance fund" via a GoFundMe account Wednesday to help Brown financially while she is on parole for the next 10 years.

www.tennessean.com

Despite having Rihanna and Kardashians on her side, she only managed to scrounge up $28k?

https://cases.justia.com/tennessee/court-of-criminal-appeals/BrownCyntoiaDeniseOPN.pdf?ts=1396144260

OniTan comments on Who is Cyntoia Brown and why is she in the news?

archived 7 Jan 2019 22:51:15 UTC

archive.is

There's a lot of misinformation in this thread. Here's the appeal document.
https://www.leagle.com/decision/intnco20090420273
Let's go through it.

Erin Dutton, the records custodian for Davidson County's 911 call center, testified regarding a 911 call that was placed at 7:19 p.m. on August 7, 2004. A recording of the call was played for the jury. The caller provided the operator with the address 2728 Mossdale Drive; when the operator asked "what's going on over there[,] ma'am," the caller replied "homicide." The operator attempted to ask the caller additional questions, but the caller hung up before responding to them.

The caller is unidentified but it sounds like Ms. Brown herself placed the call. Who else would know there was a homicide rather than just a shot fired?

Detective Scott Carter with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department testified that he was sent to the Mossdale Drive residence on August 7, 2004, when he was still a patrol officer. He received no response when he knocked on the front door but he was able to open the house's garage door. He and his sergeant, Dhana Jones, who also arrived on the scene, went into the house. Upon entering a bedroom Detective Carter saw the victim, later identified as Johnny Allen, lying in a large pool of blood on the bed. Detective Carter said that the victim was lying "face down on the bed .. . his face was facing toward[] the wall" and that the victim's hands were beneath his face, his fingers "kind of partially interlocked." He said that some of the blood dripped onto the floor, forming a small pool. The officers called paramedics, who responded to the scene and checked the victim for a pulse, finding none. He said that the paramedics gave no other medical attention to the victim.

According to the police witness, the victim's hands were beneath his face. This contradicts Ms. Brown's statement that he was reaching for something.

Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Detective Charles Robinson testified that he and his partner, Detective Derry Baltimore,1 arrived at the victim's residence shortly after 11:00 p.m. on August 7, 2004. Around 1:20 the morning of August 8, the detectives left the crime scene and went to a convenience store, where they met with Samuel Humphrey and Humphrey's father. After talking with Humphrey, the detectives went to the Walmart on Hamilton Church Pike, where they found the victim's truck in the parking lot. The detectives and several patrol officers then went to room 302 of the InTown Suites, located on Murfreesboro Road near the Walmart, where they believed the defendant was staying. The officers knocked on the door and shouted "police." A short time later, a man, whom Detective Robinson said was later identified as Gary McGlothen, opened the door. The officer pulled McGlothen out the door, at which point the defendant ran out the door, shouting that "Cut," as she called McGlothen, "had nothing to do with this.2 I'll tell you-all everything."

How did police figure out who the shooter was and where to find her? What did Mr. Humphrey say?
Regardless, Brown seemed to be expecting the police.

Detective Robinson then asked the defendant if any weapons were in the room. The defendant pointed the detectives to a closet, in which officers found a rifle and a shotgun. Detective Robinson found a notepad on which a handwritten three-page note entitled "new personality profile" had been written. He took the notepad and guns into evidence. He also looked through a handbag in the room to see if any weapons were inside. The detective found no weapon in the handbag but did find $172 in cash and a set of keys, including a key bearing a Ford emblem. He returned to the Walmart parking lot and used the Ford key to open the victim's truck. He then returned to the motel before returning to the Davidson County Criminal Justice Center, where Detectives Robinson and Baltimore interviewed the defendant, who had been taken into custody at the motel.

She's confirmed as stealing his truck and still had the keys. What's with the "personality profile"?

The detectives' interview of the defendant was recorded on videotape, and this recording was played for the jury at trial. At the beginning of the interview, the defendant gave her name as "Cyntoia Denise Mitchell" and her date of birth as January 29, 1985. Based on this information, the detectives had the defendant arraigned as an adult; however, once it was learned that she was actually sixteen years old, she was transferred to juvenile court.

She lied about her age. Why?

The defendant told police that at around 11:00 the night of Friday, August 6, she was walking near a Sonic Drive-In when the victim, a man whom the defendant had never met, pulled alongside her in a white Ford F-150 truck and asked her if she was hungry. The defendant then got into the victim's truck, and the two went to the drive-in. While the victim and the defendant waited for their food to arrive, the victim told the defendant that she did not need to be "stayin' on the streets" and, assuring the defendant that "he was a safe person," asked the defendant to spend the night at his house, to which the defendant agreed.

She went to the victim's house willingly.

The defendant told the detectives that once she and the victim arrived at the victim's house, the victim showed her several guns, including two rifles. The defendant claimed that the victim also told her that he "was in the Army and that he was a sharp shooter or something like that." Eventually, the defendant and the victim got into bed together, with the victim on the left side of the bed and the defendant the right side. The defendant attempted to go to sleep, but the victim got up several times every five to ten minutes, going to the bathroom or to an adjacent bedroom. She also said that the victim touched her and whispered to her. The defendant said that she then saw the victim reaching underneath the bed, which led the defendant to believe that the victim was reaching for a gun. The defendant, fearing for her life, reached into her handbag, which was on a night stand to the right of the bed. She pulled out a .40 caliber handgun, which she had bought "from somewhere off the street" approximately three weeks before this incident, and shot the victim.

Did they even have sex? It isn't mentioned. She also had an illegal firearm.

The defendant told the detectives that after shooting the victim, she grabbed the keys to the victim's truck, as well as two of the victim's guns, which she intended to pawn. She left the victim's house at 1:42 a.m. and drove his truck to the Walmart parking lot. She then got a ride from a "black guy in a black truck," who took her to the InTown Suites. The defendant denied Detective Baltimore's suggestion that the driver "trailed her" to the Walmart before taking her back to the motel. The defendant said that another man, whom she knew only as "Rick," then took her from the motel back to the Walmart, where she placed the 911 call on the victim's cellular telephone—a claim which the police later verified. This person then took her back to the motel.

So now we know she confirmed that she robbed the victim, and that she was the one who placed the 911 call. Why?

During the interview, the defendant denied that she was a prostitute, denied having sex with the victim, and insisted that the victim, who was nude when found by police, was not nude when he got into the bed with her. Rather, she said that she went from "place to place" in an attempt to find people who would provide her with food and shelter. Thus, she felt comfortable sleeping in the same bed as the victim. She added that she shot the victim because people had beaten and raped her in the past and was "takin' no chances" in the future. When asked why she did not leave when the victim began acting suspiciously, she replied, "you just don't think like that in the heat of the moment. You think like that after the fact." The defendant said that the gun she used was her own; she denied that she used one of the victim's guns, which the victim's girlfriend had reported missing, to kill the victim. She also acknowledged that she never saw a gun in the victim's hand and that the victim did not try to rape her. At the end of the interview, the defendant said that the man found inside her motel room at the time of her arrest was a person whom she had met in the motel parking lot shortly before the police arrived.

So, she confirms that they didn't have sex, that he didn't try to rape her, that she saw no gun, and she states that killed him simply because people have beaten and raped her in the past. Also, how did he become nude if he wasn't earlier? Is she implying she removed his clothes?

Detective Robinson said that once he and Detective Baltimore learned that the defendant was a juvenile, they brought her to juvenile court for booking. During that process, the defendant asked Detective Baltimore for paper so that she could write something. The detectives provided the defendant with paper; she then wrote this note:
I am not guilty, the reason what happened is sketchy is because I am in fear. I know it's my story against theirs and too much is pointing at me. What I need is reassurance from a lawyer in order to ensure my protection. I didn't committ [sic] this crime, I don't have the heart to.
The defendant's note also encouraged the police to search a vehicle outside room 328 linking two men named Sam and Rick to the crime. Detective Robinson said that he did interview Richard Reed, "Rick" in the defendant's note, and that he searched Reed's car, finding a real estate contract bearing the victim's printed name and signature.

She's now claiming that these other men killed the victim and she took the fall. What happened with them? How did Reed get that contract?

Detective Robinson said that while the defendant insisted that she had "dropped" the gun she used to kill the victim, and that the gun could have been at the victim's house, the police never recovered the gun.

We learn the murder weapon is missing. What happened to the gun?

Detective Robinson acknowledged that through his investigation, he confirmed as true some of the things that the defendant said during the interview. Particularly, the police confirmed the defendant's information regarding the caliber of weapon used, the fact that the defendant did not know the victim before the day of the shooting, the fact that the victim picked up the defendant in his truck and took her to Sonic, and that the defendant made the 911 call reporting the victim's death. However, the detective said that the defendant's version of events, in which she did not plan to kill the victim and the shooting happened in a "split second," was not consistent with the evidence at the crime scene, particularly the position of the victim's body and hands, which led the police to conclude that the victim was asleep when he was shot. Detective Robinson said that the police did not perform a trajectory test because such a test "wouldn't be appropriate" in situations such as this one, where the bullet passed through the victim's skull and deflected.

The police say the victim was asleep at the time of the murder, or at least prone, and they believe she planned to kill him.

Richard Reed testified that he and Samuel Humphrey were roommates at the InTown Suites where the defendant was arrested for "three or four months," including early August 2004. He said that at around 5:00 on the afternoon of August 7, 2004, the defendant knocked on his door and asked him for a ride to the Walmart, which he said was about a three-minute drive. The defendant also told Reed that she had put some keys in the back of his car, which he said was fairly easy to do, given that his car's back window had been "busted out." Reed drove the defendant to the Walmart parking lot, where she used a key to unlock a white Ford F-150 truck. She then took a cellular phone out of the truck and put it in her purse. The defendant asked Reed for jumper cables, which he did not have. Reed and the defendant then returned to the motel.

So, it sounds as if she drove the truck to the Wal Mart, it broke down, and she then walked to the motel and tried to get Reed to jump it. But why? Did she intend to keep the truck? Drive it to a different location?

Reed said that the defendant told him that she had "shot somebody in the head for fifty thousand dollars and some guns." The defendant asked him for a ride to the victim's house to "help her clean it out," but Reed declined the offer. Reed did not believe the defendant's claims about killing a man, but once he and Humphrey saw a televised news report about the shooting, Humphrey went to the defendant's room to ask her about the shooting. After Humphrey returned from the defendant's room, he and Reed left their room and went to separate locations. On August 8, Reed spoke with Detectives Robinson and Baltimore at his motel room. On cross-examination, Reed acknowledged that he told the detectives, "I was so drunk yesterday, what time did I wake up? Uh, it was probably about 4:30, 5:00, in the afternoon." Reed said that he had worked at a bar from 6:30 or 7:00 the evening of August 7 until 3:30 the morning of August 8 and that he drank alcohol on the job. On redirect examination, Reed said that he gave police permission to search his car and that the police found a folder containing realtor papers under the front passenger seat. He said that he had never seen the folder before the police found it.

According to Reed, Brown said she killed the victim to rob him. We also know that she put the keys in his car earlier due to the broken window, so it's possible she put the folder there as well. But why? To frame him? If so, why ask him for help with robbing the house?

Randall Jordan testified that at around 2:00 the morning of August 7, he drove into the parking lot of the Hamilton Church Pike Walmart in a dark 1999 Ford Expedition when the defendant stopped him. Jordan said that he asked the defendant, who "looked like a child" to him, what was wrong. The defendant asked if Jordan could take her home, which he agreed to do. Jordan asked the defendant why she was out "at this time of morning," which she did not answer. Jordan brought the defendant back to the InTown Suites. Jordan said that during the time the defendant was in his car, the defendant said nothing and appeared "blank. . . . [Y]ou [could] tell something was wrong but . . . I didn't know what it was."

OK, so she got a ride from Wal Mart to Reed's room by Jordan.

Kathy Franz testified that on August 14, 2004, she worked as a nurse at a facility4 at which she encountered the defendant. Franz said that one day, the defendant asked her to use the telephone. Franz told the defendant that she could not use the telephone, at which point the defendant grabbed her by the hair and by the face; after that, the two women struggled and "both wound up [on] the floor." According to Franz, the defendant told her, "I'm going to do you like I did him, but I'm not going to shoot you once in the back of the head. I'm going to shoot you three times and listen while your blood splatters on the wall." Eventually, four or five of the facility's staff physically restrained the defendant. Another of the facility's employees, Sheila Campbell, witnessed this episode and testified about it at trial. The substance of Campbell's testimony largely mirrored that of Franz's, although Campbell added that the defendant asked permission to phone her mother before the incident and that the incident left Franz with bruises and abrasions.

So Brown assaulted and threatened to kill a nurse over not being able to use a phone. She doesn't sound like an innocent victim and speaks volumes about her character.

Shayla Bryant testified that in November 2004, while in jail, the defendant spoke to her and two other inmates, Lashonda Williamson and Sheila Washington, about the victim's death. The defendant told Bryant about the charges she was facing, and Bryant overheard a conversation between the defendant and Williamson in which the defendant "basically said this guy that she was talking to used to send her out to prostitute. And she was mad at him. And the man tried to rape her, so she shot him." Bryant told the defendant that she did not believe the defendant's account because the story "just seemed too perfect." Bryant testified that the defendant then "started laughing." Through notes, the defendant "basically said she shot the man just to see how it feel to kill somebody." Bryant said that the defendant appeared "as jolly as she wanted to be" while discussing the victim's death. Bryant added, "it didn't look like she had any remorse. She didn't cry. . . . She was just there."

Here's the first incident where she claims rape, but she also says she killed him for fun.

Dr. McMaster testified that the victim had no defensive wounds. She then explained lividity, or livor mortis, the settling of blood in a person's body after the person's death. Dr. McMaster said that the type of lividity present in this victim, "fixed" lividity, occurred "somewhere around twelve to twenty-four hours or longer" after a person's death. She said that based upon the lividity patterns present in this victim, the victim "was lying on his right side for some period of time after his death." She also said that the victim's wound was "an immediately fatal wound." She added, "Because of the nature of the wound, I would not expect [the victim] to have any type of voluntary movement or to be able to move his extremities or his body in any way" after being shot. Thus, Dr. McMaster said that in her professional opinion, the victim's hands were clasped at the time of his death, as they were in the crime scene photographs taken by police after the incident.

The forensic pathologist testified that the victim was in the same position with his hands under his head as when he was found as he had been when he was shot.

Kevin Carroll, an internal affairs investigator with the Davidson County Sheriff's Office, testified that all inmate telephone calls from the county's jails are recorded, and that his review of the records of those calls indicated that the defendant placed a call on October 29, 2005. The defendant's maternal grandmother and adoptive mother, Ellenette Washington, testified that she received this call. During Washington's testimony, a recording of the conversation was introduced into evidence; during the conversation, the defendant told Washington that "I killed somebody. . .. I executed him." On cross-examination, Washington acknowledged that she had visited the defendant in jail "just about every weekend" since the defendant was arrested and that the defendant had told her consistently that she shot the victim because she was afraid that the victim would rape her or otherwise hurt her.

Another incidence of her claim that she feared rape.

The defendant's other witness, Sandra Liggett, testified that she met the victim at a restaurant in February 2004. Liggett began attending the same church as the victim, and the two also exchanged e-mails and telephone calls. In March 2004, the two agreed to attend a movie together. The victim picked up Liggett at her friend's residence as planned, but instead of going to a movie theater, the victim asked Liggett if he could show her his house. Liggett, knowing the victim was a realtor and believing that he was a "nice guy," agreed. The victim showed her several rooms in his house before leading her into his bedroom. The victim told her that "he wanted to get something out of the way first," then he kissed her. Liggett told the victim, "this is wrong. I don't want to do this." The victim gave Liggett a "hard stare," which she described as "scary." She asked the victim to bring her to her car, at which point the victim kissed her again and began pulling off Liggett's clothes. Eventually, the victim and Liggett had sexual intercourse. Although she did not welcome the victim's advances, Liggett "just decided that it was best to do it" because she was "too scared to fight him." Liggett then asked the victim to return her to her car, which he did.

So, this is a woman who had been raped by the victim before. I wonder how Brown (or her attorney) found her. It certainly shows a lot about his character. However, Brown would have had no way of knowing this at the time of the shooting.

Jennifer Martin, a juvenile justice case manager with the Department of Children's Services, testified that she supervised the defendant from January 2002 through March 2003, when the defendant was placed at DCS's Woodland Hills Youth Development Center. Martin acknowledged that Woodland Hills is a "secure youth development center" and said that children placed at the facility attended a "fully accredited high school." She said that the defendant "had been tested and determined gifted, so she was in the gifted program." Martin said that after the defendant completed her placement at Woodland Hills, she was released to the custody of her adoptive mother, initially on a thirty-day home pass and then on a "permanent" basis, during which time DCS still maintained "intensive supervision" over her.
Martin said that the defendant had no problems following directions during her placement at Woodland Hills. Martin said that the defendant "is a very smart girl." She noted, however, that the defendant "had numerous fights," including one in which she threw a chair across a room and others in which she assaulted both workers and fellow students. Martin further described the defendant as "very manipulative . . . . If she doesn't like what she's being asked to do, she'll choose [not] to do it."

More evidence of Brown's violent character. Now we learn that she's also manipulative.

Dr. Bernet said that he diagnosed the defendant with borderline personality disorder. He described the effects of this disorder as follows:
[It] is a mental condition that affects on an ongoing basis and on a pervasive basis how a person thinks about reality and how a person relates to other people. Individuals who have this condition . . . have very unstable, very intense, but unstable relationships with other people, meaning they go from one extreme to the other. They might glorify or idealize a person, but, on the other hand, they demonize a person . . . or go from loving to hating people. And they form very maladaptive relationships, which I think is something [the defendant has] done over the years. .. . [T]he other feature of borderline personality disorder is . . . some kind of a mood instability where people have violent mood swings and they go back and forth . . . in terms of their affect. Actually, I think that's illustrated by her anger/calm. It's probably a reflection of her borderline personality problem.

So, she's diagnosed as a violent person who can instantly turn on people.

Dr. Bernet also testified that there "were times when she claimed that her adoptive father abused her and other times when she said he did not." He acknowledged that in his report, he wrote that the defendant had admitted to fabricating allegations that her father had abused her because she was upset over her father's accidentally killing her dog. He said that the defendant also recanted these previous allegations because such allegations potentially would interfere with her leaving DCS custody and being placed with her adoptive mother.

Here we see more evidence that she's been known to lie before.

The State also sought to admit a document entitled "New Personality Profile," which was handwritten on three pages and discovered in the defendant's motel room upon her arrest. The first two pages of the document read: * Serious outlook on life * Stay on toes in every situation * Analyze character to define type (mojo) * Recognize the cruelty of the game; life isn't gravy outside of home; be expecting of any & everyone, we're all human, therefore prone to get upset & flip out * Show no weaknesses, f— what happens in this world, its constantly changing, if you stay stuck on a focal point in your life, you'll fall behind the population, remain at least 5 steps ahead of those who surround you. Never stray from your motive. IT's all about making it. * IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, invent new approaches, move on from there. No time to waste backtracking. * Turn your strife into strive, make advancements in your life. Get money, f— everything else; keep 1, maybe a few sources of pleasure in life. Aside from that STRICTLY BUSINESS. Everything else is bullsh—ing, (falling off/behind) * Induce seriousness, don't be a bitch or sensational, but when you have to, straighten whoever. Stand your grounds, don't let nobody push you down, their reaction will be to move ahead of you (no-no) * Stand firm in a quality belief, don't be fooled to change it unless it suits YOU. Don't let anybody live your life for you. You are your own person; don't cheat yourself in life. * Mold your negative happenings into strength. Induce home (military) mentality. ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE. The world is breaking down its people, fight back, perservere [sic], and stand tall. * Low-key. I don't need too many people too much about me. F—everybody, but f— with a few. We all get on shiest [sic] from time to time. * Get with the program, f— the past, wake up to the present. * This is all a fight; the war never broadcast in order to alert the people, the war on our own fellow Americans. How can we go against another country when we're battling among ourselves. Love is hard to find babygirl, think of it as a gift from God, when He's ready it'll come. Trying to find it will only lead you to getting let down. It's a jungle, be the owl, looking down over it all, observing the other breeds, keeping you on top. 10 steps ahead.

This document is basically her justifying killing for money.

There you have it. In my opinion, this girl killed a man to rob him and later made up the rape story. She may have actually felt threatened due to her borderline personality disorder, but that was entirely in her head. The victim's position at the time of the murder was not threatening.

However, her behavior afterwords was baffling. Why did she rob him then call the police? Literally the only reason she was caught was because of her own actions. Why keep lying, changing her story, and leaking information that led to her conviction? She's clearly not acting rationally. At the end of the day, she tied her own rope.

We're also left with some questions like what happened to the gun.

In my opinion, she should stay in prison. She killed a man in cold blood, and her likelihood of recidivism if released is very high given her pattern of violent behavior. The story she's spinning now is another manipulation on her part.

If you don't believe me, read it yourself and decide.

Additional information that fills in some of the blanks can be found here.

http://support2ndchance.blogspot.ca/2011/05/for-teens-impulsive-unthinkable-act.html

"I'm going to do you like I did him, but I'm not going to shoot you once in the back of the head. I'm going to shoot you three times and listen while your blood splatters on the wall."

'Cold-blooded psycho bitch gets sentence commuted because halfbraind celebrities whine' - yeah, no way this will backfire.