Posted on 03/29/2022 8:20:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Chris Rock almost made the Oscars worth watching. Almost. Rock declined to press charges, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the matter has been resolved.
According to California law, prosecutors are responsible for holding guilty people accountable for their actions and an obligation to pursue justice despite influence from the alleged victim or the community. The prosecutor can consider factors including whether the victim is cooperative or not, but that should not be the determining factor on filing criminal charges. The decision should ultimately rest on whether there is evidence that a crime has been committed and whether the case can be proved in court.
The only factor that should matter is the first, but pragmatism requires the second. If there is little or no hope of ever attaining a conviction, there is no point in wasting time and money taking an unwinnable case to trial.
Naturally, House representatives Ayanna Pressley and Jamaal Bowman announced their support for Will Smith on Twitter before apparently realizing they had just endorsed violence and deleted their tweets. Bowman's staff took responsibility for his tweet and explained they thought the altercation at the Oscars had been staged, but Pressley didn't say anything. She just pretended the whole thing never happened.
Is the Will Smith prosecution unwinnable? It certainly shouldn't be. There were thousands of live witnesses in the audience and millions more on television. It should be simple for police to have a warrant issued for the show script. Unless there is a scene where Will Smith is supposed to charge Chris Rock on stage and slap his face, Smith should be charged with battery. Of course, that will never happen, because this is Hollywood and Black Lives Matter.
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I read they already kissed and made up.
“ display did not help her cause.”
I’m not so sure. The ratings for these awards have sucked. If the leftists start throwing punches at each other maybe even I might start watching.
Not unless they put him back in. They let him out after 2 (3?) days, pending his appeal.
They do if they’re homosexual and, apparently, Smith is, as is his wife.
Well, Chris Rock is hysterical.
In the end the moral lesson is always the same: God and His ways are the best.
What? Nobody could play James West better that Will Smith. /sarc
I read that only one person made that claim.
Other people are saying Chris and Smith did not speak; Chris's face was bruised and he didn't stick around. He left.
To those thinking this was staged, and assuming the participants have no plans to disclose this, what kind of payoff would be required for Chris Rock to go along with it? For that matter, what about Smith? One gets an open-hand slap across the face on national TV, and the other slaps the man on the stage. I don’t see a win for either.
Or the underage grooming that goes on as well.
“... how many men do you know that would march up and b slap a man instead of punching him?”
Okay... I have a question for you guys. I have HEARD that if a man slaps another man it is extremely insultive. It is viewed as “seeing the other male as weaker” and thus, hitting him like a woman would hit another woman. Not sure if I am explaining this correctly but does a man SLAPPING another man have some deeper male meaning?
Yes, the "man" doing the slapping isn't a real man.
Gotcha! :)
Nope not a stunt. Would you consider a few things that inform my opinion and tell me where I am wrong?
If it were a stunt, it would need to have a writer, a writer who could have done so much more with it than what we saw. This was badly written and makes the woke-istas look bad. Actors are good at delivering lines but not at writing them. Chris Rock had no comeback really, though he tried. He can be funny but he is not like a Robin Williams, someone who can improvise instantly. He was genuinely surprised by Smith’s approach (or Rock has suddenly become a really good actor, better than any of his films). Smith is shown laughing at the joke just moments before. It is that “wife” who is NOT laughing. What did she say to Will Smith when the camera turned away?
Another evidence pointing toward my contention is that Smith uses profanity which a writer could never have gotten past the Academy.
“Keep my wife’s name out of your effing mouth!”
For it to be a stunt, one would have to believe that the writer, whoever it may be, wanted Smith to show outrage in this way and the actor is very convincingly delivering the line. It was Will Smith who wrote that line and delivered it for an audience of one, that woke, offended GI Jane to whom he is married. She is a typical feminist who still needs her man to stand up for her because she is too weak and cowardly to go up there and slap the man herself.
My final evidence is the “apology” by Smith later when he wins an “award”. Very amateurish apology for a writer to write about a stunt, but fine if it was actually sincere. He waited till next day to issue an apology to Rock though.
These are not the desired headlines for a planned stunt:
“Smith Apologizes to All Except Rock.”
“Slap Overshadows Oscar Win.”
“Is Will Smith’s apology after the Oscars slap enough?”
Maybe Ricky Gervais can school Rock on the rigid rules for insulting Hollywood actors. Maybe it was a publicity stunt, but the members of the Academy who were present at the meeting about it afterward certainly acted as if it was real and they talked around and around about “advocating” “condoning” “violence”. It is axiomatic that all publicity is good publicity, but a writer should have made the Academy look good and certainly should have made the King Richard movie look good.
Was this written by someone who did not look up that that woman has a condition, alopecia? Chris Rock thinks he is complimenting her! GI Jane was a Demi Moore movie where she shaves her head as part of Navy Seal training.
Correction and contradiction is heartily welcomed with my thanks!
Will Smith making fun of bald man on Arsenio Hall show. He says it was just a joke.
The thought of actually putting anyone on trial for slapping Chris Rock is a real hoot. The jury would be asking when they get a turn. Skip all that and just handcuff Rock (Sidney Poitier) and Smith (in whiteface as Tony Curtis) together for a remake of The Defiant Ones.
Prosecuted for “what?” Engaging in a bit of bad acting with Chris Rock and passing it off as “authentic?”
It’s said that people don’t know and can’t discern right from wrong.
And Will Smith is a *ussy for his sucker punch that hit Rock, a small man, and he didn’t even go down.
Lame, wussy, thespian sucker punch.
Of course this will not happen in L.A. He disturbingly got a standing ovation soon after the incident after all.
I hope he does get some sort of professional help, though. He seemed to be having some sort of meltdown during his acceptance speech and must be going through problems a lot more serious than being offended by a joke.
In Los Angeles, California, where they don’t prosecute muggers and thieves if they are black? Fat chance.
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