Comments by "graham johnson" (@TheWchurchill4pm) on "VICE Life" channel.

  1. I hear so many people say Amanda has “made it all about herself.” But Amanda never wanted to be at the center of anything. The police, prosecutors and media made it about Amanda. Instead of seeking justice for Meredith, or telling the world what a wonderful person she was, they created a narrative about Amanda. If Amanda is talking about herself and her experience, it’s because that’s the only perspective she is able to give.
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  2. I love that Amanda pointed out Daisy can smile about it. People have a preconception about how survivors should react to their own trauma. That message just traumatizes them further by taking away more of their agency.
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  3. I’m sorry she still has to hear people saying she’s guilty. I guess that just vindicates her decision to become an advocate for other women. The victimization doesn’t stop, so the only choice is to fight forever.
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  4. @MichaelTrefethen what do you mean?
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  5. Amanda’s first question: “What do you think people don’t know about you?” Of course, she’d ask that. She knows first-hand how the person can be lost in their own narrative.
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  6. @StickerLady do you think bullies should be held legally accountable when their victims commit suicide?
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  7. I can’t imagine what that poor woman must have gone through or the strength it took to survive it
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  8. As an autistic person, I can relate to this. When a situation just becomes too much, I need to go to a safe space where I’m not being bombarded by all the sensory input. In that context, Tamara’s actions make sense.
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  9. No, I think she’s the perfect choice. The fact that she has been a victim of a false media campaign is clearly the reason she just lets these women tell their stories. Other interviewers might try to frame or read into their subjects’ words. But Amanda knows better; she endured the very thing with Diane Sawyer.
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  10. I think our country has been partially defined by the clash between racism and anti-racism. When we talk about racism in US history, we have to examine it in the context of a struggle, with racist people fighting against anti racist people.
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  11. Her employers had no business regulating her behavior outside of her job. Do corporations think that they are entitled to control every aspect of people’s lives. Conservatives are opposed to the government doing that. Since the power of corporations rivals the power of the government, conservatives should be outraged by this story.
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  12. At the very least it’s a misnomer. But the words we use do matter.
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  13. A woman whose sexual lifestyle was used to put her in prison interviewing a woman who was sexually exploited? That is brilliant!
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  14. Cope with what?
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  15. @Laura.K no, Amanda Knox was the one doing the interview.
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  16. Yeah. Women who help give voice to abuse victims, after have suffered years of victimization themselves, are such monsters. 🙄
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  17. @SydneyMiller it needs new management. Hey, maybe they can put Alexandra in charge! 😀
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  18. @RobertNeighbors no. DNA evidence was retested
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  19. @EckhartTrolle how do you know?
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  20. The police coerced her into accusing that man. She may not know what it’s like to suffer racism. But her experience with police corruption would naturally make her sensitive to other victims of that corruption. Just look at the sympathy in her face when she hears Ms. Morris’ story.
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  21. Physical threats are not protected speech.
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  22. I don’t agree. Every movement to end injustice is built upon empathy between the people within it. While the experiences of these two women are very different, the injustices they both suffered are clearly serving as common ground from which they can fight together.
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  23. @ShannonTodd I hope the Italian prosecutor watches these videos. He put so much emphasis on Amanda’s personality and external behavior. I wonder what he’d think of the person she is when she talks to women who’ve been hurt.
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  24. Amanda was a victim and wouldn’t even be in the public eye if she hadn’t been wrongly accused. She only write a book because she had to pay her legal fees.
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  25. @DevinDevin Amanda Knox is a hero.
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  26. @NeonHologram666 you don’t think it’s good for abuse survivors to hear that they’re not alone?
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  27. @LitChick she did nothing to atone for. She was victimized and instead of feeling sorry for herself, she’s working to empower other victims.
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  28. @blink1892 she interviewed Representative Morris of Vermont who was intimidated into resigning through racist threats.
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  29. @JonathanXavier that’s not true. The police targeted Patrick because of his race and coerced Amanda into saying he killed Meredith. She recanted her statement the next day and the prosecutor didn’t believe her.
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  30. 0:59 BOOKS!!!!! Now that is the REAL sexy❤️
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  31. @CJBM was she looking for money when Charlie Sheen abused her physically and verbally?
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  32. She was wrongly convicted
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  33. @NateWong remind me again how you know Amanda is guilty?
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  34. I honestly don’t think anyone would have even suspected Amanda if they hadn’t wanted to believe it was a sex murder. The entire profile of Amanda, in both the media and the courtroom, was confirmation bias. They selected the acts she performed following the murder which could be spun as signs of guilt, and threw out every fact which gave context to those acts.
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  35. If you are reading, Amanda, you’re one of my heroes!❤️
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  36. I can understand the reappropriating of the word “slut,” and I’m glad she’s not ashamed if people use her sexuality to harm her. But I don’t think I’m out of line by pointing out that art should meet certain aesthetic standards. Personally, I don’t think photographing a buttocks meets that standard.
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  37. Amanda, I hate that people think you should just not appear in public. Seeing you out in the world, speaking your truth is a blessing to the world. I love you ❤️
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  38. It’s ok to find the word “slut” inappropriate. But these women didn’t introduce that word into the dialogue. If they hadn’t been called it already, they wouldn’t have had to reappropriate it. When someone uses language to hurt you, you have the right to take away its ability to cause you harm.❤️
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  39. @Maria she came to your school after her release? Or was it before?
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  40. And she was convicted based on a knife that had been contaminated. The police didn’t even put the knife into an evidence bag, and left it next to other evidence containing both girl’s dna.
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  41. He did the same thing the prosecutors in the West Memphis Three case did. Using the horrible nature of the crime to create a sensationalist narrative. In both cases, the authorities turn the case into a conspiracy theory.
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  42. @KayaRuppo it’s been documented that many narcissists and psychopaths are attracted to the financial industry
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  43. @Tony Welsh - it’s very subjective to decide whether bruises were caused by being attacked by multiple people or being restrained by a single person
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  44. @Spettro Family - she wrote two recantations - two! - within a day of accusing Patrick Lumumba. That alone should have given police enough reason to let him go. But they were desperate to get somebody, so they kept him in jail. Even after his alibi proved true, they wouldn’t let him go until they had Rudy Guede - that way the news of Guede’s arrest would overshadow the news of Patrick’s release. He should have sued the cops, not Amanda.
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  45.  @peterquennellnyc  Again, wrong. The first recantation, signed less than one hour after she signed the police-written statement, said she was standing by her accusation but wanted them to know she felt confused and wasn't sure. (That alone should have taken away any legal basis they had for arresting Lumumba but they arrested him anyway because they were desperate) The second recantation, written hours later in a prison cell, after the stress of the coercion had worn off, made it clear that she had imagined that she had seen Patrick at the apartment and that he had definitely NOT been there. (Still, the police held Lumumba in custody) As for "accusing" Raffaele, she put forward that point as a negative: in other words, she said the only way Raffaele could have done it was if things had happened a certain way, but she didn't think they had happened that way. Look at it this way: if I say "They only my wife could have robbed that bank is if she drove to the bank from Starbucks, robbed it, then drove back to Starbucks before I got back from the bathroom," does that mean I am refusing to me my wife's alibi? No, it means I'm saying the idea of her robbing the bank was ludicrous because I wasn't in the bathroom that long.
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  46.  @peterquennellnyc  Which memorandum is Migini referring to? If he was referring to the second one, the one she gave to Ficarra, then it makes sense that she wouldn't have been hit or given suggestive questions with regards to it.
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  47.  @peterquennellnyc  those "notes" were a list of names of men who'd visited the apartment, which the police requested from her. There's little doubt that it WAS an interrogation due to the simple fact that they were bugging her phone, which you only do with suspects. They may not have thought she was the killer yet, but they clearly suspected her of being an accomplice. Assistant Prosecutor Manuela Comodi has said it was necessary to arrest Amanda because she could have returned to the US; so the officers were probably desperate to get a statement out of her - even if it required coercive methods. Her lawyers were probably hesitant to actually accuse the police of wrongdoing since you can get sued in Italy for accusing cops of misconduct. Amanda herself was charged with criminal libel because she said in her testimony that Ficarra hit her.
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  48. I wonder if American Crime Story will ever do an installment on the Kercher-Knox case.
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  49. I love her writing. Not just her book, but the articles she wrote for various publications.
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  50. @Kinotaurus Meredith’s death was a tragedy. But why shouldn’t Amanda get to have nice things?
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