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It’s Great That Cyntoia Brown Was Freed — But It’s Time for Systemic Change (barf alert)
National Review ^ | August 7th 2019 | Katherine Timpf

Posted on 08/07/2019 2:31:07 PM PDT by Ennis85

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To: Ennis85

Am I the only one irritated no end by the “barf alerts” and “major hurl alerts” included in headlines?

Just the articles with headlines, please.
Don’t tell me how to react to it.


21 posted on 08/07/2019 5:36:40 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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If you don’t use barf alerts for some articles, people will bitch about that. The safest thing to do is use them, I think. I would rather be warned before I stepped into a manure pile so I had the option to skip it entirely, rather than be ankle deep in do-do before I realize it.


22 posted on 08/07/2019 5:57:56 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: sparklite2

Yeah, you’re right, but it irks meeeeeee. :^)


23 posted on 08/07/2019 6:05:57 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Probably marijuana. She’s a Libertarian.


24 posted on 08/07/2019 6:09:24 PM PDT by Tax-chick (It's the guitar solo! Everybody polka!!!)
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To: mumblypeg

It irks me, too. I’m an adult, and I can decide what I think about media content.


25 posted on 08/07/2019 6:10:01 PM PDT by Tax-chick (It's the guitar solo! Everybody polka!!!)
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To: mumblypeg

+1


26 posted on 08/07/2019 6:14:24 PM PDT by x
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To: Pollard; mrsmel

Thank you thank you

In a sea of usual stupid didn’t read the article posters

Finally some sanity

I swear folks like you on these threads give me hope thank you

I’m here

I know this case

Crazy bitch killed and robbed her john

Then the women’s rights and lefties started with this victim crap story

She did 15 years

He’s dead.

Of yes the puritans here think johns should just be murdered anyhow...idiots

Mrs Mel....(excluded of course from my rant)


27 posted on 08/07/2019 6:19:15 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: Ennis85

From the detective who handled the murder (for dumbasses here’s)

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As supporters of Cyntoia Brown’s release are celebrating her newfound freedom, others are standing by their belief that the killing was not justified.

It’s been 15 years since detective Charles Robinson led the homicide investigation on then 16-year-old Brown.

“I’m happy that she has a second chance at life. I hope she uses this time and does well,” said Det. Robinson.

But in his well wishes, he still stands firm with what he said are the facts of the case.

“Absolutely not. It wasn’t justified. There was nothing that Johnny Allen did to her that night he was asleep that would justify what she did other than her motivation to kill him so that she could take stuff out of the house,” said Det. Robinson.

Det. Robinson argues the narrative that won Brown her freedom that she was a sex slave for four years, just had too many red flags, starting from the very first time she met her alleged pimp.

“There’s no way that that could be true,” said Det. Robinson. “Number one, he met her a little less than a month before I charged her with the murder of Johnny Allen. He was from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, she was from Clarksville, Tennessee.”

Second, the claim that Brown shot Allen in self-defense.

“The man was asleep when she shot him because he was still clasped together, like this near his head,” said Det. Robinson.

Det. Robinson felt so strong about the evidence, in 2017, he wrote a seven-page letter to then-governor Bill Haslam before Haslam made his decision about clemency.

In that letter, he detailed the inconsistencies in Brown’s statements, including what she did after she shot and killed Allen.

After the interview with detectives, Robinson said one thing has stuck after all these years.

Brown used a telephone to make a call.

“She got on the phone and was talking to a friend of hers and telling them that she was in custody and she was going to be charged with murder and she was on the phone laughing about it,” he said. “I found that to be unusual.”

As Robinson stands by his beliefs, he hopes Brown will make good of her future.

“She served 15 years in prison and I hope for her sake that she uses this time well,” said Det. Robinson.


28 posted on 08/08/2019 12:12:16 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: Tax-chick

She is cute, but not too swift.


29 posted on 08/08/2019 3:09:58 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

She’s supposed to be well-educated, but I often find her argumentation to be shallow.


30 posted on 08/08/2019 3:55:11 AM PDT by Tax-chick (It's the guitar solo! Everybody polka!!!)
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