WNBA’S Brittney Griner Sentenced To 9 Years In Russian Prison

[WillBrink]

And we are going to trade an entitled America hating athlete who made her own bed (even If the charge and sentence political BS theater) for a legit monster arms dealer named the “the merchant of death” ? While the US can and should work on her behalf to see that sentenced greatly reduced, and sent home, that's all we should do, and my empathy meter for her remains at zero:

Khimki, RUSSIA – American basketball star Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to a drug charge in July.

Griner, who was in Russia playing basketball for UMMC Ekaterinburg in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) off-season, was arrested in a Moscow airport in February after she was caught carrying marijuana vape cartridges into the country, FOX News reported.

The center for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury has maintained that she made “an honest mistake” because she was packing in a hurry when she brought vape cartridges containing oils derived from cannabis that her attorneys have said she used to treat pain.

Russian prosecutors have argued that the basketball player intentionally brought drugs into the country, FOX News reported.

https://policetribune.com/wnbas-brit...ussian-prison/

[markm]

Couldn't have happened to a better man! I wonder if she still hates the national anthem here?

Some goofball/pseudo celeb was whining that if these shemales made more in that crappy basketball league they wouldn't have to go to Russia for more income.... Ummm... I'm certain this crusty piece of shit brings home more money than I do.

And we are going to trade an entitled America hating athlete who made her own bed (even If the charge and sentence political BS theater) for a legit monster arms dealer named the “the merchant of death” ?

To paraphrase the Great Dave Chappelle... It's now become worse to hurt a gay person than it is to kill a "n-word". An America hating, gay black chick is high priority!

[B Cart]

I'm sick of people pandering to the entitled sports/celebrity types and trying to get them special treatment. She knowingly broke the laws in another country and should suffer the consequences.

There are many other Americans who ACTUALLY LOVE THIS COUNTRY, that we should bring home long before her sorry anti American butt. Let her rot

[gaijin]

My feeling? Take a knee now, Bitch.

[WillBrink]

My feeling? Take a knee now, Bitch.

Might be on both knees in prison...

[Diamondback]

Enjoy Siberia...

[teufelhund1918]

I have to give a cynical snort laugh when stuff like this happens. These kind a people think that US law applies to or covers them in a foreign country. Literally heard some of our government officials say what happened to her was a violation of her constitutional rights. Their laws are their laws. You break 'em, suck it up. There will be a price to pay.

So me too, I'm sick and tired of this multi-tiered judicial system here in the US that panders to the so called "elite". There are still folks locked up in isolation from the Jan 6th hoax that have had their for real constitutional rights violated. Yet, no body will give voice to this. So sad for the path this country has taken... saying that more and more these days.

[LoboTBL]

She knew the rules and she broke the rules, simple as that. If she thought her sex, race, sexual identity, athletic prowess, fame or anything else would get her some preferential treatment in Russia, she thought wrong and it puts her in the same category as the "Do you know who I am?" @$$hole congressional candidate in another thread in GD.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I am uncomfortable about letting loose bad guys here for these Americans caught overseas. It is pretty close to negotiating with terrorists. They get one of theirs caught, so they grab a US citizen. So break out laws as a foreign national, and you can get out of jail if your home country takes a hostage? You can slippery slide to some ugly scenarios here.

[1168]

I have to give a cynical snort laugh when stuff like this happens. These kind a people think that US law applies to or covers them in a foreign country. Literally heard some of our government officials say what happened to her was a violation of her constitutional rights. Their laws are their laws. You break 'em, suck it up. There will be a price to pay.

Even better when you remember that THC is illegal in the US too, and I think, every member of the UN.

Or was this CBD or something?