After Months of Requests, Mugshots of Stanford Rapist Brock Turner Finally Emerge

[SpankMe]

Source: nbcnews.com

It was the epitome of white privilege, the narrative went — a student and star swimmer at prestigious Stanford University is arrested on rape-related charges, and after more than 16 months, he's sentenced to only six months.

And the authorities refuse to let the public see his arrest photo.

Until Monday...

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/after-months-requests-mugshots-stanford-rapist-brock-turner-finally-emerge-n586936

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Fucking, what? An arrest 16 moths ago, and the police refused to release a booking photo? I never knew this until today. Such bullshit. This kid wasn't rich. But, he's white as hell. I'd say that was central to the cops' decision not to release the photo. I'm writing the Cali Attorney General's office and my local Assembly rep to complain about this. Mug shots are public records. It should have been available for download within an hour of being taken.

Why deprive us of a portrait of such a pretty white boy? <sarcasm>

[silverweb]

1. Money.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Daddy probably threatened to withhold an endowment or large donation if they let the pictures out.

[AtheistCrusader]

9. Mug shots are public record. Why did Stanford have anything to say about it at all?

[silverweb]

10. Good question.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]The only answer I can think of would be family influence (i.e., money) and friends in high places.

[TacoD]

44. Dad appears to have middle-management civilian job with the Air Force. I'm sure he does fine but

it doesn't appear that he is as wealthy as one might suspect. I think reply #3 has it right.

[brush]

51. A classic case of white privilege

No denying it. A POC committing those crimes would never see the light of day again.

[whathehell]

52. White MALE privilege.

The rape victim doesn't seem to have gotten much 'privilege" throughout this.

[brush]

66. Correct.

[MosheFeingold]

72. Unless

He was a sports star, you mean.

With some noted exceptions, they seem to get a pass, regardless of race.

[Initech]

2. So an actual sex criminal gets practically off the hook for a real sex crime...

While the fundies feel the need to continue to harass trans people in the bathrooms and locker rooms because of perceived sex crimes. What is wrong with this picture?

[avaistheone1]

3. It appears that his privilege is based on more on being a Stanford alum, an athlete and male

the same as the judge.

The decision not to publish the photo does not appear to be because he is white, remember the victim is in this case is also white.

Curious as to what proof has surfaced that this criminals family is not rich?

[d_legendary1]

19. So this is a case of one Frat Judge protecting a Frat Brother?

Knowing the secret hand shake has its perks it seems.

[Doctor_J]

26. In addition, a number of black football players at Baylor have gotten away with raping white coeds

So this Stanford incident has little to do with race and a lot to do with celebrity privilege (OJ)

[BlancheSplanchnik]

27. Yep. The great divide is male, alpha

Vs. Female.
Which, in this society always means Not-alpha.

i.e. Garbage.

[LittleGirl]

34. That gif! ha ha ha eom

[BlancheSplanchnik]

40. ...

[avaistheone1]

50. As John Lennon said woman is the n***** of the world.

[whathehell]

54. Yes..

and he was right and honest people will admit it.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

68. It's true.

Seems so obvious to me, I don't understand why it's denied and enabled more than even racism is.

[TexasBushwhacker]

39. Well at least one didn't get away with it

The problem was that the player wasn't suspended for a single game even though he was accused of 6 rapes over 3 years time. He was eventually tried and convicted and got 20 years.

[whathehell]

58. FWIW, a recall effort to remove the dumbass judge has begun..

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/recall-effort-launched-against-judge-aaron-persky-stanford-rape-case-n586381

[TexasBushwhacker]

60. Yup. I already signed. N/t

[whathehell]

53. Lots of MALE privilege..

in both cases.

[Aristus]

4. Anyone care to hazard a guess as to how many geologic ages of prison

this asshole would have been sentenced to if he had been black?

[Person 2713]

6. + Wanna guess how quick it would have been after the arrest that his mug shot would have

been available to the public if he had been black?

[n2doc]

8. Down here in Georgia they post the mug shots on the web, immediately.

I don't know if that is common or not elsewhere.

[Person 2713]

11. Common for the area read below .. Multiple requests . The crime was 16 months ago they substituted

a picture of him in a suit with short hair
Typically, officials make criminal mugshots easily available online or through public request, following protocol to keep courts as transparent and open as possible.
Not in this case.
Turner was initially arrested by the Stanford Department of Public Safety in January, 2015. The SDPS, however, runs under the jurisdiction of the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Department — but that didn’t help in obtaining any records related to his arrest. When journalists requested the mugshot, officials at SDPS said that SCSD was responsible for sharing the photo. But SCSD said SDPS was responsible to releasing the mugshot. The sheriff’s department first turned in a mugshot taken at last week’s sentencing trial. He appears to be dressed in a suit.

[7962]

24. Yeah, sometimes you see mugshots before you even hear the story!!

I've noticed that

[LadyHawkAZ]

21. Don't bother with the guess

Just hang out til mid-July when this guy gets sentenced

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2016/04/09/jury-cory-batey-guilty-vanderbilt-rape-retrial/82769934/

[redstatebluegirl]

5. What does his Daddy do?

[TacoD]

31. He is a civilian "deputy branch chief" at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=9051

Here's him and Lindsey Graham:

[BlancheSplanchnik]

42. Puke.

So we can be pretty sure his family embraces misogynistic values.

[smirkymonkey]

61. A face badly in need of a fist if there ever was one.

[SunSeeker]

7. There wouldn't even be a booking photo if he wasn't caught in the act of raping her.

But for the fact that two Swedish students happened to ride by on their bicycles and saw Brock Turner pounding away at what looked like a lifeless woman behind a dumpster --- and then chased him down as he tried to run away, this would have been another unreported/unsolved rape.

Does anyone think this is the first time Brock Turner did anything like this?

[niyad]

12. it is only the first time he has been caught.

and, considering daddy's letter, thinking it runs in the family.

[SunSeeker]

15. Yep. nt

[SunSeeker]

73. As expected, news just came out of his prior assault(s)...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/stanford-swimmer-exhibited-behavior-prior-sex-assault-prosecutors/story?id=39707680

[BlancheSplanchnik]

28. Lucky for her two good Samaritans happened to be in the right place

When she needed them.

I want to puke at the people making this about race.

At the heart of it all, it's about what men can get away with doing to women. If the two men hadn't helped and WITNESSED, does anyone think SHE would have even been able to get the guy to court?

The central issue is women are routinely devalued, disbelieved, discarded. Collateral damage, no matter what their promising future and years of hard work might have looked like.

[SunSeeker]

29. Well said. nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

33. SHE is brilliant, too. And BRAVER than most men could ever IMAGINE being.

She didn't triumph courageously over bad guys, with her broad shoulders and well developed biceps.

No. She was overpowered and taken to the depths by a privileged little psychopath whose dick endowed him with a long list of favors, mentors, buddies, supporters, and opportunities on a silver platter.

But even so, in a society that blames women for everything that men commit upon us, that routinely rips off women so that men may not have to feel the consequences of their actions, that forces women to live with the damage done them by unrepentant men, that cannot even imagine empathizing with the resulting long-term trauma and re-victimization that millions upon millions of women suffer for the sins of men----

----this woman stared directly into the cold eyes of heartlessness and eloquently stood her ground. For her own sake AND for every woman who is abused by men and then tossed aside as if she were garbage.

She towered over the violence of the perpetrator AND the system, with the might of her words

[SunSeeker]

36. Her Statement should be required reading in high school sex ed classes. nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

41. Should be required reading here!

There, and everywhere!

[SunSeeker]

46. Indeed. nt

[Dont call me Shirley]

48. Beautifully said, Blanche!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

49. thank you

!

[truebluegreen]

57. Preach it, sister.

Teach it.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

69. Thanks!

I wasn't expecting that much eloquence to come out of me! Every now and then, I get it right.

...and this case reaaallllllllly infuriates me.

It's such an example of what women face, only the story is so rarely brought to anyone's attention, let alone the WORLD'S.

[demmiblue]

59. "She towered over the violence of the perpetrator AND the system, with the might of her words"

Thank you for expressing it so well... that last sentence gave me the chills.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

70. Thanks!

I'm glad it hit where it's supposed to.

I was searching for the right words, and that saying, "the pen is mightier than the sword" came to mind.

[Igel]

37. She couldn't have.

By her own admission, she didn't remember any of it. From a while before the assault to when she regained memory in the hospital she says it's a blank.

That leaves forensic evidence and the two passers-by as the case against him.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

45. Thank you, nice point

But not germane to the premise of the post.

"I want to puke at the people making this about race.

At the heart of it all, it's about what men can get away with doing to women. If the two men hadn't helped and WITNESSED, does anyone think SHE would have even been able to get the guy to court?

The central issue is women are routinely devalued, disbelieved, discarded. Collateral damage, no matter what their promising future and years of hard work might have looked like."

[smirkymonkey]

38. +1000

I know! Grr!

However, the only way to get any men on this board to pay any attention to a rape thread is to make it about race. They will come out swinging for the racial minority, but could give a shit about the female victim of the crime.

Otherwise, rape threads sink like a stone w/ the exception of a few female and some decent male posters here at DU.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

43. FUCKING HELL YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!!!

Misogyny....

... The most progressive dudes will routinely claim to be enlightened, while thoroughly engaging in sexism and rape culture.

[whathehell]

55. I have a feeling the pig did this before, yes. n/t

[SunSeeker]

74. Your intuition is correct. In today's news:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/stanford-swimmer-exhibited-behavior-prior-sex-assault-prosecutors/story?id=39707680

[forjusticethunders]

16. The problem is

The INSTANT you get into that narrative it takes the focus off the HUMAN AGENCY OF THE RAPIST who made a conscious CHOICE and CHOSE TO RAPE. No matter what risky behavior the victim engages in, the focus of this is that a human being used his agency and free will to rape another human being.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

17. I really don't understand what is wrong with people like you

[7962]

23. Well I cant respond to a blocked post, but DAMN, what the hell????

I hope that poster doesnt have daughters.....

[whathehell]

56. "Maybe she will learn something".

Unfuckingbelievable.

[Orrex]

30. Holy shit--please tell me that I misread that disgusting fucking post!

It's hidden now, so I can't reply to it, but seriously what the fuck?!?

[Lars39]

18. She could have been in a diabetic coma and he would have still raped her.

His humane duty was to check if she needed medical assistance. He chose to commit a crime.

[niyad]

20. maybe SHE could learn from this???? are you ******* KIDDING? SHE could learn?? did you

even bother to read her letter? blaming the victim is disgusting, and please do not say you aren't, because that is exactly what you are doing.

how about blaming the RAPIST? maybe HE could learn something.

wow. . . just. . . . wow.

[Orrex]

32. Hasn't this poor little swimmer been through enough already?

You're asking him to learn something from 20 minutes of action? He's probably traumatized by this lascivious unconscious woman who had the raw effrontery to be raped by him. Let's not forget that he's the real victim here!


Just when I think that maybe we've gotten past the "she was asking for it" mindset, some troglodyte steps forth to reveal that this mode of sick thinking is alive and well.

[niyad]

65. sadly, I was only surprised that it took so long for that mindset to show up.

how could I forget--his life will never be the same. I mean, he doesn't even eat steaks anymore.

[Orrex]

67. IMO that hidden post should result in a PPR

There's "hides" and then there's "hides," and that one was way over the top.

[SunSeeker]

22. Don't worry, Brock Turner's high-priced attorney would have made you proud.

I suggest you read the statement she gave in court if you feel she was not "criticised" enough or did not "learn from this."

https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra?utm_term=.toXPEmYD4m#.cg7N0L5AzL

[dbackjon]

14. Wealthy Privledge

[7962]

25. Lets see how well this douchebag does in the slammer. nt

[Blue_Tires]

35. Yeah, I've never heard of this before, aside from maybe some juvenile cases...

The system bent over backwards to protect him, didn't they?

[ripcord]

47. I'm surprised they couldn't withhold the photos until after the election. ;)

[justiceischeap]

62. Here's the mugshot from the night of his arrest

it was released by Campus police:



This is the mugshot the Sheriff's dept released:



Even after being found guilty, the police still decide to release a mugshot that makes him NOT look like a criminal.

[Skittles]

63. they both look pretty suspect

he's creepy even when he is cleaned up

[rockfordfile]

75. Sick looking pos

He should be in jail for years.

[CincyDem]

76. I wonder if they're both mugshots...

The previously unreleased mugshot for this crime - yeah, he's got that deer in headlights look that says "f*ck...how did I get caught".

The second one (with the jacket) - it kind of looks like a mugshot to me, maybe from a former booking on some other charge ?

It's consistent with reports that he's been a predator in training for a while.

[flvegan]

64. Maybe they didn't want to upset the parents.

January 2015, they had just closed on their new home. Quiet little cul-de-sac it appears, I'm sure. Perfect place to reflect on raising a no-good rapist.

[Sand Rat Expat]

71. I've lurked for a while...

And I made an account just to comment on this thread. I read this thread on my way home, and from there I read the statement the victim wrote. The feelings of outrage, fury, sorrow, and compassion made me want to cry and made me want to get in my two cents.

To Brock Turner, I have this to say: You are a monster. Here are my wishes for you. May you live long... but not in good health. And when you die, may your first day in Hell last ten thousand years... and may it be the shortest.

To the lady (and the far too many like her), I have this to say: My wish for you is that in time you will find joy and peace again, that you will know that you are beautiful and no one can change that, and that you will realize that you are unbreakable, and stronger than the vast majority of people can even imagine being.

To those fighting for this beautiful woman and all those like her, never give up and keep fighting the good fight against sexual violence and rape culture. To the two men who saved this young lady's life in particular, you are heroes.

And to those excusing and enabling the violence against this brave woman and all those like her... see my wishes for Brock Turner.