Youtube comments of graham johnson (@TheWchurchill4pm).

  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. One of the things we should have kids talk about in class (while we’re at it, we should do more to encourage them to actually TALK about issues) is what American Exceptionalism means. What does it mean for a country to be exceptional? What does a country need to accomplish to be great? How do countries successfully accomplish these things? Those are questions students need to know are important.
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  3. @KingsBlade7 you’re cousin was an American hero, God Bless him ❤️🇺🇸
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  4. I love how Tucker is presenting this. Sarcasm, not brevity, is the soul of wit!
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  5. She throws an egg at a guy and tells the security guard “don’t touch me!” She actually thinks she has a right to throw things at people. No, that’s not right: she thinks she has a right to throw things at specific people. Her actions prove that she does not regard Larry Elder as a person with rights. He is a thing, in her mind. Remember that the Nazis’ rise to power began with the dehumanization of others.
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  6. I have read Amanda’s account of her questioning, and I have read the “slander” narrative put forward by contributors to the site, True Justice For Meredith Kercher. Amanda’s account makes more sense. If you put yourself in her shoes, her claim of being gaslit through harsh questioning is very believable.
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  7. I envy Californians their chance to retake power of their government.
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  8. That’s what happens when they assign their own books in class
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  9. 1:40 Being Todd’s prisoner really messed with Jesse’s head, looks like.
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  10. “I was sexually active. I was not sexually deviant.” I love the defiance in her voice. Nobody - not the prosecutors, not the press - has the right to make her sex life an issue.
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  11. The police told her she had amnesia and blocked out the event. Suspects are inclined to believe this if they are exhausted and confused. Also, the police were the ones who brought up the man’s name based on a text Amanda had sent him. Her statements regarding his involvement were the result of leading questions by investigators. The very next day she wrote an actual letter attempting to retract the statement. As soon as she was clear headed, she acted responsibly.
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  12. Democrats like Newsom don’t even care about Democrat voters. They only care about the Democrat donors who pay them.
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  13. “You should respect your elders.” If you’re an elder, you should be setting a moral example.
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  14. Like many college age men and women.
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  15. “It’s called the First Amendment.” He does have the right to speak - but those women have a right to speak against what he’s saying. The First Amendment goes both ways.
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  16. We should remember what she wanted her life to be: she aspires to become a journalist reporting on political affairs. I think Meredith Kercher would have gone on to do a great deal of good in the world.
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  17. @Eastbluedrew she has given a detailed description on numerous occasions of how she was coerced: She had not slept in several days and had already been interviewed multiple times. The police yelled at her and told her she was lying. One of the officers struck her over the head twice. Another officer told her she may have amnesia, which gave her a logical explanation for why the police were treating her this way. They asked leading questions regarding Patrick Lumumba, which caused her brain to create false memories of being with him at the apartment that night. (Also, she wrote two separate statements recanting the accusation within 24 hours; the first statement was written less than an hour afterwards)
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  18. How would you prove that a woman is getting an abortion because of the child’s race or disability, as opposed to simply not wanting to have a child?
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  19. 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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  20. @Bran Man24 - I’m sorry, not only for what happened to you, but also for most people choosing not to believe stories like yours exist. May I ask, how are you?
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  21. Biden might get to replace Thomas. But the cons would still have a 5-4 majority.
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  22. I imagine any Republican wanting the nomination will need to seek his endorsement. And they’ll probably all know it will hurt them in the general election.
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  23. 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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  24. @christinamickey06 thank you for being brave enough to share <3
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  25. He’s gotta be in the mob or something
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  26. What would an innocent person sound like? Have you compared her descriptions to those given by people like the Central Park/Exonerated Five ?
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  27. Comparing Amanda Knox to OJ Simpson is demeaning to Nicole Brown an Ron Goldman.
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  28. Amanda is right that filmmakers don’t consider the impact their portrayal of real life figures have on those figures’ lives or the lives of their families. Consider the portrayal of Johnny Cash’s first wife in “Walk the Line,” or the portrayal of reporter Kathy Scrugs in “Richard Jewell”
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  29. @Vivian first of all - she can complain about losing 4 years of her life, then having to spend another 4 fighting to be fully exonerated, not to mention being the target of a worldwide slut-shaming campaign. And second of all, a lot of guilty men and women are given sentences which are totally disproportionate to their offense. Women have the added punishment of losing childbearing years.
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  30. And hero
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  31. @DianaMincher she didn’t know the emergency number for the police in Italy. Many people wouldn’t want to readily accept that something horrible happened in their home; so she called her mom for advice and went to tell Raffaele to ask him what to do. How could she lock Meredith’s room from the outside? Rudys DNA was all over the crime scene. Amanda was cutting tomato’s with the knife which is why her dna was on it. The “blood” on the blade was so minuscule that the police used it up in the initial yet. Initial tests are unreliable. If she’d only known Raffaele for 5 days, how could she have seduced him into helping her commit murder? That was the prosecution’s theory. How could the US government have retaliated against the Italian Supreme Court?
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  32. 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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  33. @StickerLady do you think bullies should be held legally accountable when their victims commit suicide?
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  34. I can’t imagine what that poor woman must have gone through or the strength it took to survive it
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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. @MichaelTrefethen what do you mean?
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  39. Amanda has such a beautiful mind. She wrote a wonderful book, has such fascinating discussions on her podcast, she can sing (I have heard her in person), and she can speak Italian! Amanda should be held up as an example to girls who dream of having successful careers.
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  40. Even if he does win, the system is so corrupt that it will corrupt him. When you get elected, you have to sell out just to stay in office. 😔
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  41. I don’t disagree with anything the Judge has said. But I do think we should be finding ways to make criminal justice more rehabilitative. The “reforms” DA Chisholm implemented were obviously not the right kind of progressivism. But maybe the problem is that no one tried to help this man early in his criminal career. Maybe if we tried to rehabilitate criminals after their first offense, we’d see actual change.
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  42. When the American Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin said “We must now hang together, or we will surely hang separately.” If a loyalist had heard it, they’d have exclaimed “Laughing about treason - what a psychopath!”
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  43. I’m glad she’s out in the world and refusing to hide. She has nothing to be ashamed of.
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  44. If there was any to begin with.
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  45. @______Heart - there are many Italians who also believe in her innocence. Following her and Raffaele’s exoneration, Italian lawyers and scientists began formed their country’s first Innocence Project devoted to exonerating wrongfully convicted people in their prisons.
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  46.  @lucapostorino1963  fake info from anti-Knox sites like TJFMK
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  47. @Matt-Wars with all due respect, a person’s face and eyes can freeze for multiple reasons. Yes, it may be because they are lying and are trying hard to focus and not slip up. But they could also be trying to calm themselves down because a memory is so emotional. And if they are taken into account how they’d be perceived, it may be that they don’t want to be MISperceived as a liar: after having so many people read into her behavior, it’s understandable that Amanda would revert to a stoic face/posture so as not to give any trace of emotion that may be misconstrued. Behavioral analysis just seems like a crap shoot to me.
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  48. I think the public needs to be educated on how confessions can be coerced and why wrongful convictions happen
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  49. A goddess! Her mind is even more beautiful than her body 🧠
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  50. One the nicknames the Italian press gave her was “Clever Fox”
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  51. @Robin he’s currently writing a book.
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  52. If she felt guilty for murder, then she wouldn’t be able to continue making her case in public. The guilt would break her. But she seems to be comfortable speaking
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  53. The only place you’d find a “fairytale” like this would be in the original Brothers Grimm
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  54. She has actually spoken about her sometimes. The reason she hasn’t most of the time is that she can’t tell the story from another person’s perspective. She doesn’t have the right to speak from Meredith’s point of view. It’s only possible for her to tell the story she saw with her own eyes
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  55. @Janine Parra she never did a cartwheel. She did the splits when an officer asked her to show him a yoga move. (But if you go to her Instagram account, you can see a video of her doing cartwheels in her backyard. She calls it “typical Knox behavior”)
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  56. Every time I watch a video with Amanda or read something she’s written, I’m moved 🙂
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  57. @Kate Lewis: Mederith’s blood was mixed with Amanda’s because they lived in the same apartment (why wasn’t Amanda’s DNA in the blood at the murder scene; it was only in the blood found in other places of the house. Raffaele’s DNA on the bra was so small it had to have been result of contamination. This was established when a crime scene officer was filmed picking up the bra with gloves he’d used to handle other evidence. Her “accusation” of Patrick Lumumba was coerced.
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  58. She wouldn’t even make little tryouts, actually
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  59. @DianaMincher of course you’d reduce anything Amanda does to sex! That’s all people have wanted to do with her since day one
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  60. Maybe the EU can be replaced with an alliance more in line with its original economic purpose
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  61. @Montecristo I’m one of her fanboys, I’ll admit it
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  62. It partially because he opted for an abbreviated trial, which automatically entitled him to a maximum number of years under Italian law. But I doubt his sentence would have been reduced to 16 years had the prosecution not minimized his role in Meredith’s murder. (His role, of course, was the only role)
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  63. @Les Grossman - when I said “write new material,” I didn’t mean taking cheap shots. I meant making stronger arguments.
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  64. Raffaele Sollecito’s lawyer called her “the Amelie of Seattle”
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  65. @Robin you’re forgetting that the Kerchers were themselves victims. Not only of Rudy Guede, but of the police and prosecutors who lied to them. Amanda recently said in an Italian on Italian TV that she doesn’t blame the people in Italy who hate her because they were lied to and fed a fake story. The Kerchers were even more vulnerable to be fooled because of their grief and expectation that the authorities would give them answers. The Kerchers don’t owe Amanda an apology. They are owed an apology along with Amanda.
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  66. I agree. While I don’t trust body language “science” (it has after all been used to argue for her guilt) I just don’t think she could keep telling this story if she were really guilty. The guilt would drive her insane.
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  67. @Lily - she was kidding her boyfriend outside the house because she was scared and wanted someone to comfort her. You can tell it’s not a making-out kinda kiss. As for the cartwheel, that’s a myth. She was at the police station and mentioned to an officer that she knew yoga. He asked if he could see a yoga move, so she did a splits.
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  68. I think pro-life justices are afraid to overturn Roe v Wade. They are afraid of the social unrest that would result. It’s the same kind of thinking that led Roberts to vote to uphold Obamacare - a ruling not based upon the Constitution but upon politics.
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  69. Any who opposes abortion should support federally funded birth control so less women will seek abortions
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  70. Mr Kaplan seems to be forgetting the two-man rule.
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  71. Prayers for his safe recovery.
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  72. OJ was guilty
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  73. @Orlando Santiago - there’s a documentary on Hulu, “Who skilled Garrett Phillips?” It was the first time I learned that the results of DNA testing can be subject to interpretation. From watching CSI, I assumed that DNA test results spoke for themselves. But, apparently, the scientist running the test can influence how the results are presented.
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  74. 3:10 OMG, it’s like the prospect of him running again caused her physical pain!
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  75. If you expect someone to look like a psychopath, that’s what they’ll look like. If she had never been accused of murder, would people look at her and see psychopathic behavior?
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  76. This is what happens when the news because consumer-based. They focus the reporting on sex because sex sells.
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  77. There’s only one dimension in which we should judge guilt or innocence: which narrative confirms to the facts?
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  78. You think it was too soon?
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  79. Potential running mate?
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  80. At the very least it’s a misnomer. But the words we use do matter.
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  81.  @dbboykid10  you should read her book. When you look at the prosecution's case from her point of view, it doesn't seem like such a slam dunk.
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  82. I'm glad cases like Daisy's are being examined in law schools.
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  83. I’m sorry for the Kerchers. But Amanda is t disrespecting them by living her life.
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  84. Why not?
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  85. @pancakesandtea she was coerced into accusing him by the police. They assumed he did it based on a text she’d sent him, then they bullied her into saying he saw him killing Meredith.
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  86. Because, my friend, that is as it should be 😌
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  87. Yeah. That girl has been through enough.
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  88. @Riccardo there already was a Netflix documentary
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  89. Actually, the police forced her to make that statement. Also, she recanted it the next day, after she’d gotten some sleep.
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  90. She was coerced into naming him. He should have sued the police officers who conducted Amanda’s “interrogation”
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  91. Meredith was THE victim. But Amanda is still A victim.
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  92. @Petersburg Tug - read Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Talking to Strangers “
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  93. Voyeurism?
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  94. I think she looked fine in the bathroom. The snow probably added to much moisture.
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  95. Her side was full of lies? The official story - propagated by both the prosecution and the media - was a total conspiracy theory. No one bothered to do a complete investigation before declaring they knew what happened and what the motive had been.
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  96. @bjulia33 are you violating the ‘NDA by posting this?
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  97. @AlexisGarcia most importantly, she doesn’t judge or make these women feel like they are to blame. I wish Diane Sawyer had shown Amanda the same courtesy during her own interview.
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  98. I love this video, but, yes, I think including Trump was a mistake. It sends a message to Trump supporters that you have to be against Trump if you want to help women who have been harassed.
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  99. @A.M. I’m hoping to read her book before the year is over
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  100. @dee why are you so sure that she really killed Meredith?
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  101. There was one where a female video game programmer was targeted by misogynistic game enthusiasts. Do you think they were trying to reference Anita’s story?
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  102. @Kinotaurus Meredith’s death was a tragedy. But why shouldn’t Amanda get to have nice things?
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  103. I love her writing. Not just her book, but the articles she wrote for various publications.
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  104. I wonder if American Crime Story will ever do an installment on the Kercher-Knox case.
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  105.  @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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  106.  @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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  107.  @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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  108. @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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  109. @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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  110. 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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  111. 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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  112. @Maria she came to your school after her release? Or was it before?
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  113. 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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  114. 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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  115. 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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  116. If you are reading, Amanda, you’re one of my heroes!❤️
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  117. 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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  118. @NateWong remind me again how you know Amanda is guilty?
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  119. She was wrongly convicted
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  120. @CJBM was she looking for money when Charlie Sheen abused her physically and verbally?
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  121. 0:59 BOOKS!!!!! Now that is the REAL sexy❤️
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  122. @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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  123. @blink1892 she interviewed Representative Morris of Vermont who was intimidated into resigning through racist threats.
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  124. @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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  125. @NeonHologram666 you don’t think it’s good for abuse survivors to hear that they’re not alone?
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  126. 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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  127. 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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  128. Physical threats are not protected speech.
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  129. 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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  130. @EckhartTrolle how do you know?
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  131. @RobertNeighbors no. DNA evidence was retested
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  132. @SydneyMiller it needs new management. Hey, maybe they can put Alexandra in charge! 😀
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  133. Yeah. Women who help give voice to abuse victims, after have suffered years of victimization themselves, are such monsters. 🙄
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  134. @Laura.K no, Amanda Knox was the one doing the interview.
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  135. Cope with what?
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  136. 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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  137. People like Amanda Knox give me hope that the world isn’t lost.
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  138. @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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  139. @DevinDevin Amanda Knox is a hero.
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  140. @KayaRuppo it’s been documented that many narcissists and psychopaths are attracted to the financial industry
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  141. When Amanda was in prison, her diary - which contained the names of literally every man she’d ever slept with - was leaked to the press. She only wrote the names because the prison doctor “accidentally” told her she had AIDS and was trying to figure out who gave it to her.
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  142. Why can’t one abused woman interview another?
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  143. Because of her story, Amanda Knox is the perfect person to interview these women. Look at her face when she’s listening to the stories. The facts that she listens more than she talks speaks a lot to her character.
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  144. How can you be sure you know the facts that you’re unwilling to hear both sides?
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  145. Mathilde - she actually sent a letter to the Kercher family asking if she could meet with them in person. You can find several videos on YouTube of her saying she’d live to meet with them.
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  146. I love that Amanda is the interviewer. She’s an example, not just to women, but to anyone looking for strength.
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  147. When two women share an apartment and one of them sees blood in the bathroom, the chances usually are that it’s menstrual blood. No one really expects to find a corpse lying in there house, so it’s not exactly the first thing that would come to mind.
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  148. 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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  149. When I saw this, I thought it was a headline from The Onion.
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  150. Since her baby was born, she has said she’d like to sell the rights to her book to have a film made. She says it would be so she is financially independent and won’t have to keep using her story to make a living.
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  151. I think it’s her way of giving back. Her prosecution and incarceration showed her the way crimes can be poorly investigated, so she is providing her perspective on true crime cases. A lot of her podcast has been devoted either to victims of wrongful convictions, or to women who were defamed or exploited by the legal system and/or the media.
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  152. I was actually a supporter of Affirmative Action before the Biden presidency. So, I guess I do owe him one.
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  153. And they just pretend LGBTQ conservatives don’t exist.
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  154. Gasp Tucker Carlson keeps saying “crack” second gasp That’s a reference to black drug dealers third gasp some someone is calling me a racist implying that only black people deal crack
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  155. The Netherlands? I’ve heard their standard of living and level of satisfaction is the highest of any country in the world.
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  156. “To heal, you have to know the extent of the wound.” They should give the guy who wrote that line more access.
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  157. @YYY-Guy the government doesn’t restrict its right to move from one side of the road to the other
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  158. 🦅🦅🦅???
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  159. @danielleisabellabanyard9968 9 Trump is Clodius Pulcher
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  160. I’m scared
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  161. Or a sign of being nervous
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  162. @imanahmadbaihaqi I agree
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  163. @kilian111 why?
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  164. There are plenty of videos where she does cry and show emotion
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  165. @Kevin Sha - why would she feel contempt for her mom?
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  166. He should have sued the police for making Amanda say it was him.
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  167. I read her book this year. I emailed her (you can message her on her website) and she replied back. She was very sweet and receptive to my question.
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  168. Who does that? Who walks up to a complete stranger and just berated them?
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  169. @Annie Rides Again - God Bless You for saying the right thing ❤️
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  170. @Dawn Adams Yes, it was very inconsiderate of a baby to die. That wicked little monster. 😒
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  171. ❤️
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  172. @DizzieDaCrazzie88 maybe you shouldn’t have children. I’d hate for any kid to have you as their example.
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  173. She must feel like she’s cursed.
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  174. Sometimes God tests us
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  175. Whole thing looks staged.
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  176. It was self-defense! The first guy was videotaped acting violently before he encountered Rittenhouse, the second guy attacked him with a skateboard, and the third guy pointed a gun at him. Why tf was he even charged with a crime?!
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  177. I’m not a supporter of the trespassers (the most accurate term for these people) but I agree that words like that communicate the journalists feelings more than actual facts.
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  178. Reminds of when Saddam Hussein’s lawyers were being targeted.
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  179. We know that accusation was coerced because if she really was there she would have known it was Rudy’s dna at the scene and not Patrick’s. Why not tell them it was Rudy she heard when they would have had an easier time believing that story instead ?
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  180. She’s beautiful.
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  181. Go to the video section of her Instagram account. There’s a video of her doing cartwheels, calling it “typical Knox behavior”
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  182. I just ordered the book of poems she wrote with her husband Chris, “The Cardio Tesseract”
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  183. @FrankVaughn what about this interview is “woke?”
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  184. @TomGraham - Diana and I have never seen eye-to-eye. But what kind of influence do you think she has to alter that situation?
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  185. I guess I have
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  186. Ron Goldman was in many ways the Meredith Kercher of the OJ Simpson case. He just had no place in the media’s narrative, so people pretended he never existed.
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  187. Unfortunately her parents will never enjoy the satisfaction of closure. Her siblings are still alive. It’s my hope that they might meet with Amanda and believe her.
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  188. That was pretty much the title of the New York Times story that came out last week.
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  189. The police made her a victim. We should be mad at them
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  190. Why do you require help?
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  191. @DianaMincher it’s a big step from being “excluded socially” to committing murder. The prosecution also argued that Amanda resented Meredith for being sexually abstinent. This is basically a form of slut shaming directed towards Amanda
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  192. Didn’t you see the part at the end of the video?
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  193. I’m sorry to hear that
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  194. @DianaMincher Rudy was arrested days before Meredith’s murder. For reasons which are still unclear, the police did not press charges or hold him in custody.
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  195. @G.B. I’m fairly certain I’d have killed myself after the first conviction. I can’t understand how anyone can be as strong as she is
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  196.  @GARYBRUNDAGEMUSIC  The media has a great deal of influence over how people perceive reality. When all the networks and newspapers report from a perspective of groupthink, no one thinks to question their narrative because there's no counternarrative. The phenomenon is especially prevalent when emotion plays a role. Nothing plays to people's emotions more than sex. When the media portrays someone in terms their sexual history, you have emotion and prejudice working against reason.
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  197. @Mil Pow- consider her statement in context. She commiserated with Amanda in this interview, acknowledging the injustice done to her. As you said, she explains the journalists motives - but explaining is not the equivalent of excusing. If I say Rudy Guede raped Meredith because rapists seek validation through the humiliation of another - am I saying Guede had a good reason for his actions?
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  198. @Mil Pow - no. I mean she meant to say that it has BECOME reporters’ duty to stick to their original stories. It is an effect of the 24 hour news cycle, that you have to get the story fast and stick to it in order to preserve credibility. She’s not defending the journalists; she’s just describing their motivations.
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  199. @Mil Pow- I think she was trying to describe the reality of the situation
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  200. I’ll give the Italians this - their appeals process is much fairer than ours
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  201. ❤️
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  202. @Nataly I believe Amanda. But I don’t think we should just tell people who disagree with us to “shut up”
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  203.  @alabama.worley  That's what you are asserting actually - that Amanda, having no history of violence, convinced two men she'd known for only few days to hold a woman down while she killed her. Guede, on the other hand, had a history of burglary, and had only recently been arrested for attacking a woman.
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  204. @Luca Postorino - in you find the scenario I’ve described improbable, you’re more than welcome to point out its flaws
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  205. He had a history of break-ins and robbed a law office. He had been in the apartment as a guest of the men who lived downstairs. He probably thought no one was home, broke in to steal some stuff, found Meredith, and decided to rape her. I don’t know if he decided to kill her before or after the rape, but I think it was an impulsive decision. He was probably in shock after what he’d done and just went to the bathroom.
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  206.  @matt-warssupreme6977  You're right, I was wrong and I apologize for being rude. That being said, how can body language ever be a reliable indicator of guilt or falsehood? Is there any gesture, posture or tic that a person can only display while lying and never when telling the truth? Furthermore, why did the police not tape a conversation which they had to have expected to be decisive in identifying the murderer?
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  207.  @matt-warssupreme6977  First of all, could you message me with some winning lottery numbers? I could use you gut feeling on that. Second, what kind of training do you have in using a person's body language to determine guilt? And while we're at it, how is body "language" even a reliable indicator or guilt? Lastly, she was coerced into accusing Patrick Lumumba. There's circumstantial evidence: (1) the police have admitted they thought she was going to leave Italy with her mother and were justified in having her detained to prevent it, and (2) they didn't tape the interrogation, despite being required to tape interrogations of suspects, which she was because they were tapping her phone. In conclusion, they planned to coerce her beforehand because they were desperate and agreed to lie to cover it up.
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  208. @Matt-Wars Supreme why do you think so?
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  209. Why do you think so?
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  210. @AlabamaWorley I’m currently reading a book on the Alfred Dreyfus case. When you see how George’s Picquart - the man who exonerated Dreyfus - deconstructed each point of the prosecution’s case, it’s easy to understand how an overwhelmingly convincing case can be built up using speculation and confirmation bias. The investigators had already decided Dreyfus was guilty because, as a Jew, he would supposedly lack loyalty to any country; then they allowed that bias to influence how they interpreted every fact they encountered. The case they built actually looked air-tight. Likewise, the Perugia authorities saw Amanda and Raffaele kissing, thought they were sociopaths with no empathy for a murdered woman, and saw every fact they found in that context. It was only when people began looking at the evidence from multiple viewpoints that the truth became clear - in both cases.
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  211.  @alabama.worley  she's decided to use her story to raise awareness about wrongful convictions - which are a huge problem in the United States. When people hear her story, they'd be less inclined to think a person could never be wrongly accused of a crime
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  212. I hear she’s planning to have her book, “Waiting to be Heard” made into a feature film
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  213. @Aily many of them have also become advocates and spoken against wrongful convictions. Amanda has met many of them at Innocence Project conferences
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  214. @Aily she tried to live a private life after coming home, but the public kept showing an interest in her. The only way she was able to cope with the lack of privacy was to publicly speak about her ordeal - and to use her story to advocate for others
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  215. I’ve seen many videos featuring her speak. I’ve never heard someone sound more real
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  216. When she was studying abroad in Italy in 2007, her roommate was murdered and she and her boyfriend were incarcerated for 4 years for the murder. They were acquitted, but because Italy doesn’t have double jeopardy, they had to spend another 4 years fighting the accusations in the appeals process before being definitively acquitted
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  217. The prosecution thought they were honoring Meredith, but really they were dehumanizing her. They reduced both women to their sexuality in different ways. By reducing Meredith to this idea of the Virgin Mary, they took away her agency and hid the complexity of her character - the very thing we all have which makes us human
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  218. I hope that after his acquittal, she will interview Kyle Rittenhouse on her podcast
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  219. I don’t view her public speaking as exploitation. I view it as service. The selfish thing to do would be to hide and live it safe. By speaking out, she is raising awareness and giving hope to people like her.
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  220. @glen Herron sorry. I misunderstood
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  221. Why shouldn’t she make a film? So many have already been made without her consent: The lifetime movie, “Amanda Knox” “Angel Face” “Stillwater “
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  222. @khar better than you - there are three reasons to believe she was coerced: 1. The police didn’t record the interrogation. They are required to take interrogations of suspects, but they say Amanda was not a suspect at that point, she was a witness. This is a lie. They’d already been tapping her cell phone - something you only do with suspects. 2. Less than an hour after accusing Lumumba, she wrote of a statement saying she was confused and may not be remembering accurately. Hours later, when she had gotten some sleep, she wrote out a second statement recanting her accusation, saying they had been false emerges and that Lumumba was innocent. 3. If she accused Lumumba willingly, that would mean she was there that night. If she were there that night, she’d have known Rudy Guede had raped Meredith, and that Guede’s DNA would be at the scene. So, if she was lying to protect herself, why didn’t she accuse Guede. She told the police she’d been in the kitchen and heard Lumumba kill Meredith. But she’s have known Lumumba’s DNA wasn’t at the scene! Why didn’t she accuse the man whose DNA she’d know the police would find?
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  223. I want to see it too. Can you post the link, please?
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  224. And we just elected as a Vice President a former prosecutor who was part of the problem
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  225. @Kate Lewis my problem with that argument is that it assumes she’d be credible if she wasn’t so poised and well-spoken. As if speaking well is a sign of guilt
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  226. She’s very well-read and can speak intellectually in many subjects. She also makes hats!
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  227. @Human Lice is this a reference to the Italian scientists who were prosecuted for not anticipating an earthquake?
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  228. Why do you believe she is guilty?
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  229. @Soohia Wilson ?
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  230. @Luca the only argument for him “faking the leak” is that you’ve already decided he’s guilty (aka confirmation bias). You can say the same thing about her “clean[ing] up the murder scene.” When there’s no evidence, then it proves lack of evidence. You can only say the evidence was cleaned up if you’re desperate to believe there’s some explanation for its absence.
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  231. Her boyfriend’s faucet had a leak; that’s why she brought the mop. The “scratch” was a hickey. If she had received it in a struggle, then her dna would have been under Meredith’s fingernails. It’s entirely believable she was coerced. And not only because she recanted - twice - within 24 hours. It doesn’t make sense that she’d willingly accuse Patrick if she knew Rudy’s dna would be found. If she wanted to save herself, she’d have told the same story, but with Rudy in the role of Patrick.
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  232. @KateLewis it’s my understanding that much of the evidence against her was contaminated. Also, the witnesses called by the prosecution were either encouraged to come forward after being prodded by the media, or lacked credibility. One witness who claimed to have seen AK and RS outside of RS’s apartment had worked with Mignini before. During his testimony, Mignini got him to backtrack after he said something that didn’t support the prosecution’s case
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  233. @DianaMincher you don’t think she’s being sincere?
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  234. 11:15 those who still believe in her guilt should start watching here
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  235. @glittermoon LOL, no. But I have met both of them, and their baby daughter. They really are wonderful people.
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  236. She co-wrote a book of poems with her husband Chris. I just ordered it from Amazon and an waiting for it. It’s called “The Cardio Tesseract”
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  237. She’s a hero
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  238. Would you say it’s systematic?
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  239. And now she has to look forward to explaining it all to her daughter. I hope Eureka will be proud of her mom ❤️
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  240. @AeliusRomanus - it was a nickname she was given in school because she was fast on the soccer field
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  241. @shareelove a very persuasive argument 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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  242. Why do you think she did it?
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  243. Her prosecutor is writing a book on the case. So is the actual killer Rudy Guede
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  244. @Luca Postorino - no, I don’t believe I will. I just like talking too much 😊
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  245. I sent her an email. She gave me a really nice response. I hope to meet her in person someday
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  246. An exoneree who is working to bring about criminal justice reform
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  247. @J Briggs then she’s a Hannibal Lecter-level psychopath. That would be the only way she’s been able to argue her innocence in public for so long. Of course, Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character, and the media has promoted unrealistic images of what a psychopath is.
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  248. @essentialgmbest today - I don’t know if it applies to your situation, but here’s a Winston Churchill quote: “You have enemies? Good! Then you’ve stood up for something at sometime in your life.”
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  249. @LesGrossman I recently learned something about Dostoevsky. He believed that there are no evil people. He saw evil being like an infection that makes a person sick. The only way to removed the infection, he thought, was to show the person unconditional love. Love is how you remove evil from someone.
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  250. @Luca Postorino - I’d like to think I’m man enough to show women respect.
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  251. @Ti Asara - correct. But she isn’t likely to ever receive compensation. What she also deserves - and what we are able to give her - is love. ❤️
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  252.  @JM-uf1py  do you know the link for the whole interview?
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  253. Read the article she just wrote for the Independent. She mentions how whenever she goes to an exoneree conference, most of the people there are old men of color
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  254. I’d like her to interview Marcia Clark on her podcast. Both women were transformed by the media into avatars for society’s views on sex.
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  255. @Robin - God Bless You ❤️
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  256. When an innocent person is victimized, the original victim is being victimized again because they are denied Justice.
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  257. @_______Heart - look at the four written rulings in the Knox/Sollecito cases. They reveal how contradictory and far-removed from the facts a court’s opinion can be. Possibly the only thing on which the defense and prosecution agree is that the final ruling from Italy’s Supreme Court made no sense.
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  258. She’s trying to do good by making the conversation about flaws in our legal system. And people undermine it by repeating lies. So in a way, attacking Amanda could have consequences for people other than her
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  259. I admit that a misperception of American values played a role in public opinion against her. But there are a great many Italians who I believe deserve credit for having looked at the evidence and chosen to support Amanda.
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  260. What is it you think she knew? I hear everyone saying that. Honestly I think it’s just a cop out for people who don’t want to take sides.
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  261. @Robin that is not at all fair! I believe she’s innocent, but the Kerchers don’t owe her anything. If they are unwilling to admit her innocence, then it just further makes them victims. They were lied to and taken advantage of by the police, prosecution and media.
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  262. @GingerNightmare I’ve been meaning to read his book. Did he write that he believes Knox and Sollecito are guilty.
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  263. Huh?
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  264. We should have stayed and set up a DMZ zone. It will take us decades to atone for the shame of abandoning our friends
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  265. She says the media should “hold officials accountable to the truth.” Is it even possible for the press to be, primarily, a democratic institution - as it was conceived to be - a check on government power? Or is it inherently a business model?
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  266.  @lucapostorino1963  if by "murder scene" you mean the house, then you're right: her dna was all over places she'd been walking over for 5 weeks. But if you mean the room where Meredith was found, then no, none of her dna was there. The prosecution even said there wasn't any because she'd cleaned it up.
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  267. If she was the primary killer and Guede a mere accomplice, then why was Guedes dna all over the room but not hers?
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  268. I like it when interviewers are empathetic. You should see Joe Rogan’s interview with her on Spotify
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  269. I wish it were easy to approach someone with the willingness to just give them a chance. Is it human nature to form preconceptions? Or are we taught to preconceive?
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  270. @Juraj I believe in her innocence. But you are right. Men are held to a higher standard when accused of crimes
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  271. Sorry?
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  272. @pink Princess I think she’s classy
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  273. Amanda is A victim. But you’re right - Meredith is THE victim.
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  274. When she was interviewed by Chris Cuomo (who asked her very inappropriate questions regarding her sexual history) she made it clear that Meredith was the real victim
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  275. I think Amanda would have made a great teacher. Did you know that the prison she was at had a nursery for inmates’ toddlers? She spent a lot of time playing with them
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