BILL COSBY SENTENCED TO A PALTRY 3 to 10 YEARS IN STATE PRISON, BAIL DENIED

Cosby was convicted in April of three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and assaulting Constand at his home in 2004, in the first high-profile celebrity criminal trial of the #MeToo era.   

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/bill-cosby-sentencing/index.html 

Cosby is actually pre-#MeToo. 

Cosby's old crime came whizzing back to the public's attention during a slow news cycle. In 2014, a black male comedian named Hannibal Burris started riffing on stage about how Cosby had gotten away with it (rape) for so long. Either somebody videotaped the comedy performance or a reporter picked up on the performance somehow or both.

Then all of a sudden Andrea Constand's story is back in the news in a big way. It is at this point that I find out Constand was one of six or so women, drugged and raped, who gave some sort of testimony or written statement during the court proceeding in 2004.  

After Burris comedy routine lifted Constand's case up in national news, four dozen or so other women came forward to say Cosby drugged and raped them too. 

I don't consider #MeToo to have really started until Harvey Weinstein. 

When a powerful white man goes to prison over raping a "mere" woman, that's when you know you have a movement -- because prior to #MeToo rich white men almost never went to prison, not unless there's video of them with the bloody knife in one of their hands.

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Cosby was denied bail. I suppose that means he'll go to prison today despite his attorney asking for house arrest.   

http://www.tmz.com/2018/09/25/bill-cosby-sentencing-prison-sexual-assault/ 

Cosby has also been labeled a sexual offender, so he'll have to register as a sex offender when he leaves prison. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45644374 

The sentence isn't nearly long enough for raping one woman in this way, much less four dozen. If he's in jail for more than half of the minimum sentence, 3 years, I'll be surprised. 

I'm actually waiting to see if he gets out of going to prison period somehow. I'd say that upwards of 70% of white men and black men, both, think rape is a tiny little crime -- only worthy of a 3 year sentence, knowing men get out for good behavior when only half the sentence has passed.

The only solution is to vote women into office, mostly black and brown feminist women at that.

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