Justice for Brianna

[KatieSC]

I came across this article a few minutes ago. Brianna Ghey was a young transgender girl all of 16-years-old when these animals killed her.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/16-year-convicted-killers-transgender-teenager-england-named-106891682

 

 

[VickySGV]

Makes one think what excuse or motivation they would have found for other killing victims if they had had the chance.  I can understand why it was not specifically labeled a Trans H8 crime though. 

[Ivy]

I'm glad to see they will be going away for a long time.

 

But sad about the whole brutal affair.  Brianna was a beautiful young woman and didn't deserve this.

 

[Sally Stone]

This story would be scary even if Brianna hadn't been the victim.  Murdering anyone to act out fantasies is unconscionable.  What is it that's driving people to these kinds of thoughtless, despicable acts?  My gut tells me it is a perverse result of the "me" generation.  "Let me kill someone because it thrills me.  Who cares that it robs an innocent victim of their life."   

[KatieSC]

Brianna looked so happy in the photos I have seen online, and it is heartbreaking to know these two animals snuffed out a life that had barely started. I wonder if these two animals had done this in one of the red states whether they would have even been convicted. That is how messed up things are. At least there is some rule of law still left in the world.

[VickySGV]

2 hours ago, KatieSC said:

I wonder if these two animals had done this in one of the red states whether they would have even been convicted

 

In those locations, all of which allow it, the defense of Trans Panic would at least have been offered I am sure.  The other facts here certainly show that the murder was NOT defensive or a matter of panic but that legal (non) defense would have found sympathetic ears on a jury in those places.

 

Over on Face Book, I just watched a short memorial video by one of her friends, who placed a small slate rock which had been painted with the Blue/Pink/White pattern and Brianna's name and years on it at the summit of a Tramping Trail that the two of them had enjoyed walking on near where she lived.  Moving and respectful.

[awkward-yet-sweet]

10 hours ago, KatieSC said:

I wonder if these two animals had done this in one of the red states whether they would have even been convicted.

 

I live in Deep Red Trump country.  I was assaulted in 2022, and the guy got the maximum sentence and the prosecutor refused to cut him a deal.  The guy was denied bail - partly for his own safety.  The folks here may not be overly friendly to LGBTQ+ people, but there's zero tolerance for violent crime.  I doubt there would be any tolerance for vicious murder no matter who the victim might be.  And unlike Britain, we have capital punishment here.  Perpetrators of something this heinous would likely receive that sentence.

[Ivy]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/02/brianna-ghey-name-killers-transphobia-children?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

 

 

[VickySGV]

@IvyHmmmm!!!  This opinion did very well up until the last two paragraphs when it did what it was decrying early on.  I do agree that the two killers, having been identified, are now scapegoats who deflect the personal responsibility of ALL citizens for learning to respect the dignity of Trans people onto just the immediate killers.  The last two paragraphs finger point away from the total society onto just one component.  I agree that the component of society it mentions are culpable, but to quote an older adage: "All that is needed for the forces of evil to win the world is for enough good <people> to do nothing". (I believe it was Edmund Burke who said it).

[KayC]

I remember reading of her horrible murder just last year.  I'm happy justice was swift and harsh.  Of course the murderers got a break because they were minors.