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Originally Posted by cannon7
He was judged. By a magistrate. And subsequently punished for what he did. And rightly so.
You were saying?
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Yeah, and what did that magistrate say about him? (hint it wasn't good).
He was punished (with 25 hours of community service) for his criminal act of pissing on a lollipop, making his victim eat it, and smashing his face into a brick wall.
Now he's being condemned by people like me for refusing to apologize the following 4 years after the incident. No one is calling for additional criminal charges but each day he woke up and made the decision not to apologize. He did that as an adult a week ago, the day before that, the day before that, all the way back until 2016. He had ample time, he didn't take it, he didn't try to make amends and get a second shot, he shouldn't be guaranteed a clean slate if he won't do anything to clean it himself. I know you refuse to acknowledge it so you can blame his parents, the justice system, Ohio, his mental capacity, his victim's parents, and everyone else but him, but as an 18 year old adult, not a 14 year old, an 18 year adult, he made the conscience decision to apologize to NHL teams for his actions but not his victim. #### the adult him for that.
Also the whole "he was punished so we can't criticize him" does that mean you're rooting for Brock Turner on his swimming career? Keeping in mind that Brock too was under the age that neuroscientists believe we reach mental maturity (25).