She admitted she put it in her suitcase. She pleaded guilty.

"Griner had admitted having the vape cartridges containing hashish oil..."

From: Russia sentences Griner to 9 years in prison, White House calls for her release | Reuters

She made a different statement a week or so ago.

Russian court jails Griner for nine years; US calls for release | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera

Face it, If it was anyone of us, would the government care? Play stupid games and win stupid prizes. It's like carrying a banned weapon to anyone of our airports. You go to jail. Understand the country's laws you're traveling to. Singapore canes people. You can also be arrested for littering, spitting and jaywalking and fined for failure to flush the toilet.
For some drug offenses, there is mandatory death penalty.

Officials do not distinguish between drugs consumed before entering the country or those taken in Singapore.

The police are able to force both residents and non-residents to submit to random drug testing.

This guy? The plagiarist, alleged womanizer and alleged woman abuser? Whose original birth certificate first name was Michael, not Martin?

"King’s far-from monogamous lifestyle, like his binge-drinking, may fit albeit uncomfortably within his existing life story, but the suggestion—actually more than one—that he either actively tolerated or personally employed violence against any woman, even while drunk, poses so fundamental a challenge to his historical stature as to require the most complete and extensive historical review possible."

From: https://www.davidgarrow.com/wp-conte...dpoint2019.pdf

50 years on, what they won’t tell you about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr… Like How He Plagiarized the overly romanticized ‘I Have A Dream’ Speech - St. Lucia News From The Voice

and his dissertation, too. Boston U. Panel Finds Plagiarism by Dr. King - The New York Times

Wow. What a revelation. You can find all kinds of junk about people online. Publix check-out stand kind of stuff.

Like The Gray Lady, the NYT? A Pulitzer Prize winning author? His Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor. - The New York Times

Maybe.

But probably not the University study by BU.

BTW these are demonstrable facts.

The article quoted in that post said that Brittany "inadvertently" packed the illegal substance in her suitcase. That is different than saying that she "admitted" packing the illegal substance. If you are unaware that you packed something, that is the same as "inadvertently" packing something. People all over the world are "inadvertently" packing things that they don't know is in their suitcases. That is why so many guns are found in suitcases in airports. Basically, people make mistakes. That's what people do!

I am not sure that she even has a good lawyer or any lawyer to advise her correctly. And it doesn't EVEN matter because Russian courts convict 99.5 % of all defendants. And there was probably GREAT pressure on her to get a conviction. What I can't possibly understand is WHY so many here are so going out of their way to trash her as if she had just strangled their 1st born son? I realize that residents of TV Land prefer golf and baseball to basketball, but, that can't be the ONLY reason.

And perhaps that answers my question about why so much ANTAGONISM here towards a lady basketball player?

Seriously!!!
 

I think it’s time you went back to the PRC or DPRK from whence you came. 😎

Looks like a lot of people are upset Griner is apparently anti American. If you really want to be upset about being anti American, look no further than right here in the Villages.

Griner did nothing compared to Villages own retired Navy Captain David Lausman, a convicted felon facing 20 years in prison. He accepted bribes while a Captain in the US Navy.

So let's here the outrage over this clown!


Villages man charged in Navy bribery scandal - Orlando Sentinel

This has gotten off topic!

Where is the thumbs down button?

"It also represent 400 years of racism and a century of imperialism and imposing our power and influence on other nations..."

You are absolutely correct. In my lifelong goal of trying to constantly educate myself and increase my knowledge, I'm often staggered by the true/actual/complete history of ours (and most other countries) - that I never learned from 'formal education.'