WNBA superstar Britteny Griner arrested for drug smuggling in Russia. Facing up to 10 years.

usa; huge prison population
three strikes and you are out
death sentence
racist courts.
Its amazing how blinkered us are

No WNBA title for her this season. Not that any of you were watching that sh!t anyway. Maybe they have outdoor prison rec league championships to play for in Siberia? Who knows?

I’m very happy the bad people are in jail and not out committing more crime. Your perspective: Hey, let’s not enforce any laws! Let’s just be nice to the criminals and they will stop. that sounds like a great idea!

who could argue with keeping career criminals in jail vs an endless career of hurting innocent people

hell yes death sentences. Why are you on the side of the violent murderers? What is wrong with you ?

courts are not racist. If anything, the courts are too lenient. far too many violent guilty people are not convicted or are given short sentences.

it is amazing that you side with evil.

So you think that the US, the country declares itself to be the home of "Freedom!" and the largest prison population in the world, should lock up even more people.

Interesting.

Because if something isn't working, the answer is always to do it harder.

Wait until you’re the victim of a crime then your stance will change.

I’m all good with doing everything we can to get her out of Russia, AFTER we do everything we can to get our people out of Afghanistan. Wait in line sweet cheeks!

Watch the movie "Midnight Express" (1978), based on a true story, about a young getting caught with hashish in Turkey. Turkey decided to make an example of him, changing his sentence from 4 years to 30 years, to let Americans know they meant business with their drug laws.

Russia could chose the same path with this dummy. Sneaking drugs into a country while the news is filled stories of an impending invasion by Russia. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

"Our" people? If you are talking about Americans they have no intention of leaving to returned to the U.S. They are typically men with an Afghan wife and a number of kids (non-citizens).

Why you forcibly "save" those people? Would you demand that their non-citizen families be brought to the U.S. and mad citizens? Or, would you insist the family must be abandoned?

Free Britney! She innocent! She the face of the wnba!

"Russia is corrupt as hell and we know it."

So Griner knew Russia is corrupt but was still willing to go there to earn a million dollars. I suppose that says something about Griner.

Freedom is impossible without law and order. I’m sure you are smart enough to understand this.

Keep her locked up. Keep her there and not here.

Like Novak, she needs to obey the rules of her host country.

That kind of training worked well for Rocky. This is a blessing in disguise for her.

I think it's crazy that everyone here is pretty much taking this at face value and passing judgement on Britteny Griner. It seems just as plausible to me that she was setup by some dirty Russian law enforcement agents than she was illegally trying to carry Cannabis through a Russian airport.

For all we know it was a small scale extortion plan that blew up due to increased scrutiny because of the war.

Dirty cops frame people all the time including in the US.

I'd like to know more facts before I pass any judgment and I'm highly suspicious of any "facts" regarding anything coming out of Russia at the moment.

If a court makes a mistake and kills and innocent person. How do you solve that problem? Death sentences are hard to fix. Vengeance is not the job of the state.

Maybe she is so used to it being legal here that she totally forgot about it and ended up getting snagged? Not malicious on her part, just negligent.

I don't think there was vast Russian conspiracy to arrest some female basketball player. I doubt anyone knows nor cares about that.

Didn't say anything about a vast Russian conspiracy... but I bet she was a bit conspicuous... you don't think it's possible that some thug Russian cop might target her? I thought people around here ate up unfounded conspiracy theories based on zero fact. I bet if I made a YouTube video about it and amplified it through Telegram people on here would be eating it up!

Orange Is The New Black Moscow edition. I'm in for it.