COURT FINALLY OVERTURNS MARISSA ALEXANDER’S 20 YEAR SENTENCE.

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394. no, I've really made an effort to engage with you.

but I think I've researched the topic more thoroughly than you have; what I've been trying to do is explain to you why a woman may feel it necessary to use what might be considered disproporitionate force in a domestic violence situation. I've also tried to explain to you that police are not necessarily very receptive to helping domestic violence victims. I'm telling you this because I think it's vitally important that 1) we hold law enforcement accountable and 2) as long as we are not holding law enforcement accountable, we are giving women some leeway to defend themselves.

I've lived in the south before, and I've had to deal with guys being aggressive with me, and nearly every time I brought it to the authorities, there was a real sense of pushback, anger even. again, I don't want to generalize to all cops, because they have a hard job and many of them are good people who mean well, but unfortunately, in many places in this country, misogyny is still alive and kicking.