WNBA player Britney Griner arrested in Russia: updated: wokes expected sellout crowd, nope lol

1. No one cared who Bout was a week ago
2. He was going to be released anyway, like in 11 years. And no one would have cared then either

 

Leave him alone!

 

I'm told the Onion is funnier

 

lesbiaka is such a better term compared to its english counterpart

edit: referring to the vid in the tweetply

 

The WNBA does not make a profit. It's a charity case, a tax write-off. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

Wrong thread

 

Brittney Griner’s case was difficult for US negotiators for one key reason: She was guilty

https://theconversation.com/brittne...tors-for-one-key-reason-she-was-guilty-196262

excerpt:

Griner has yet to give a full account of her story, but the available facts suggest that she legally acquired in the U.S., probably in Arizona or California where she is based, vaping cartridges containing hashish oil upon a physician’s recommendation, but not prescription. She then, probably illegally under federal law, carried them across state lines to New York, where vaping cartridges are sold but cannot be carried to states where they are not legal.

From there, the question becomes a classic law school examination issue: Did Griner violate zero-tolerance Russian legislation on narcotics when she boarded a Russian aircraft in New York – unless, of course, she flew Delta as the only U.S. carrier that goes direct?

Or was the law broken when that aircraft entered Russian airspace, or touched down in Moscow? Or perhaps it was when passengers disembarked at Sheremetevo airport, when Griner passed through passport control; or when the basketball star chose the green customs channel at the airport instead of declaring what she had in the red channel and was found out by a sniffer dog policing the green channel. These were all possibilities, but the green channel was incontrovertible.

Accusations of possession and smuggling of narcotics under Russian criminal law require proof of “direct intent” – that the individual knew or should have known what act they were performing. In this case, passing through the green channel with nothing to declare while carrying a controlled substance would constitute direct intent.

That, as Griner said, she did not “intend to commit a crime” when she packed the vaping cartridges in her hand luggage was immaterial. The question was whether she entered the green customs channel with intent.

The choice she made was to not declare the cartridges. Had she done so, the cartridges likely would have been confiscated, but no offense committed.

Under Russian law and also that of the U.S., direct intent was present. What she did was, from her government’s standpoint, at best careless and thoughtless. Moreover, it exposed the United States, in the end, to a unwelcome scenario of exchanges at a most difficult time in the international community.

The personal costs to Griner were not insignificant. It likely cost her a lucrative contract, a criminal conviction, and some nine or so months in custody.
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more at the link

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Should have been a fine. Being sentenced to a labor camp for this was ridiculous.

 

Yes, but it's Russia.