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• Thursday, October 25, 2007 04:53 PM

  KitchenGirl, this is what mary winkler said in her interview on oprah

  (i paid attention because i too thought exoneration inconceivable). she looked like she was on medication and of course, she was coached by lawyers, but this is what she related.
  the baby woke. started crying. the husband bitched (said, "it's your turn" or something like that). he kicked her out of bed onto the floor. he went into the baby's room and held it(don't remember if it was a boy or girl or what exact age - months, i think). she was afraid for the baby and took him/her from him. he goes into the room and back to sleep. she goes into their room and shoots him.
  now picture what happened. the baby cries. he pulls the pillow over his head, says it's your turn. "kicks" her? what i picture is he nudges her out with his foot, trying to go back to sleep. if she was out of bed, she went back. it was *he* who went to tend the baby. both are pissed off. a reason for her, with car keys, children and shotgun to shoot him in the back? none at all. why was it decided that way? who knows? OJ syndrome? his parents are now raising the children and if there's any justice in tennessee, will continue to do so.
  i think parson jim's first post(pg 1) is a reasoned explanation of why it's funny - but things that now are thought funny, like making people seem like complete idiots, are also thought funny. it's a *meaner* humor than when i was growing up.
  as to males and females resistance to injury - do men far more than women get hurt in car crashes? the people who think they really would hurt someone with a punch, haven't done so (don't start now). when i drank i'd get into fights (that i always lost). it's not so easy to hurt someone. you get stitches but no broken bones. yes, you can be beaten to death - by anyone, but that is malice. it involves stomping or choke holds - intent. if a woman knocks a man silly with a pan, then hits him with a chair when he's down - he's finished. otherwise it's a fight. some bruises and perhaps stitches. in general, the more articulate, the more the use of hurtful words (and that's not swearing, it's cruelty) the less articulate fight back physically. what's the answer? let's use her clip. there a very large black woman beat up her boyfriend. he wasn't a "wuss" as someone said. he threw some punches but only for show. he didn't run away. she dragged him around until finally a large black man took him away. should that guy have done it earlier? should the police (who passed by but didn't interfere) have intervened? to my way of thinking, both of them should have spent the night in jail, WITH NO CHARGES, no arrest record. you don't want to hurt their chances for employment, just have them cool down.
  i once saw a horrifying video. a maybe 50 year old white man pinned down by a very large black woman in a park in LA. her forearm was on his neck, her weight pressing. he died. the worst part was that a crowd of maybe twenty gathered around, including the young black man with the video camera. if he had merely *shown* it to her, and said, "i have this on tape", he wouldn't have died. someone must have said something. someone must have thrown the first punch. it got out of hand. the crowd gathered to watch a "breaking" tragedy. this should not ruin two lives. more. the folks in the crowd won't get over this either.

  —david sugarman Read david sugarman's other letters
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