How outraged are you about the way Russia is treating Brittany Griner?

[Anonymous]

She is one of the greatest basketball players of all time a great role model and an American hero. Who else is outraged that demands action now?

[RolandCuthbert]

I have been to Russia. What is being outraged about her treatment going to do. Russia is going to use her as a bargaining chip. They have already signaled the want a high-level Russian drug smuggler for her.

So if the U. S. is willing to deal, she will be free. If not, she could be there for years.

[jennifer_bloom]

I know ten years in a Russian jail is hard but everyone has problems and the government should not be expected to solve people who knowingly risk their own health and safety by breaking laws when there are people who obey laws that require government help too. My friend said, if you don’t care about yourself, there is no reason for me to care about you.

[NamerOfStars]

How is she an American hero, exactly? Because she (supposedly) broke Russia's laws? She was arrested and is being tried, same as you'd expect of anyone anywhere, what has Russia done that's so awful?

I'm also rather curious how "drug smuggler" is a characteristic you place on your role models...

[Lliam]

I don't care if she's a celebrity. When you visit another country, you are bound by its laws. She took and chance and lost.
I don't think this is the U. S. government's concern. Besides, it has no room to talk when it comes to people in prison and human rights in general.

[exitseven]

These people think they are entitled and can do whatever they want. She was aware of the law and chose to smuggle dope into Russia anyway. She needs to own this.

[AviatorTom]

I don't consider her a role model for Americans. She should have known the rules that she broke in Russia. Yes, Russia is treating this politically, but arresting her for violating Russian law was totally justified.

[AviatorTom]

According to new reports, Griner pleaded guilty to drug possession charges on the second day of her trial (7 June 2022) in a Russian court in a case that could see her sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. She claimed she did not break the law intentionally and hopes the court will be lenient.

[jshm2]

Nope. It's how drug smugglers should be treated.

You supporting American drug peddlers now, as well?

[Anonymous]

Don’t care. She’s a disgrace to this country as well as to her father who she said was a vet. Maybe the United States should enforce more of its laws like some other countries do. She’s not that good at basketball, if she was she’s be in the NBA.

[Anonymous]

Keep that broad locked up.

she's a lesbian in Russia so she stupid and she brought drugs into country SHE KNEW YOU COULDNT.
. PLUS WE AT cold WAR With RUSSIA.


Let her do a year. Maybe all ten


Bet they miss trump now

[WhiteSteve]

I’m against anywhere that’s against weed, haha. Absolutely preposterous mindset. Free Brittany!

[joeldalton]

ZERO outrage. dumb bitch trashes the US then whines when she faces real oppression.

[HighValue]

She had drugs. She deserves punishment. It is her own fault.

[Mijopapi2000]

I don't care. The bitch went over there like a dumbass.

[andreasderjuengere]

Who's that Brittany Grinder?
Who's that Russia?
I can't be bothered to look it up, or to waste my time on an opinion :)

[soudoit]

It took absolutely no time to get the Marine Vet out of Russia post haste... They even traded him for a Russian oligarch who was serving time in a Fed prison here... Just keep your eyes open... She wrote a handwritten letter to Biden and pleaded guilty with that sham trial there...

[lickysplit]

She committed a crime in a foreign country and got caught

[Anonymous]

Not at all they could have shot her and it would be small fry to the violations of the Geneva convention in Ukraine

[007kingifrit]

not at all, travel with drugs, go to jail. i hate pot users

[EnglishEuropean]

Because of course no Russian athlete has ever used drugs. Everyone here seems to be very exercised that she is black and a lesbian, as if that had some bearing on the case.

[Agape93]

Nope. It has nothing to do with me.

[msc545]

I don't much care. Not my circus, not my monkeys.

[LimitedBenefits101]

She deserves it.

[Iron_Man]

It’s horrible