I wasn't here much if at all during the shutdown and I only saw the post minutes before I replied to it.AnHonorableMention wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 6:32 pmfamicommander wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 3:54 pmTyson to this day denies he did anything wrong to Desiree Washington and he went to a juvenile detention facility despite being 25 when he committed the rape. Then he served less than 3 years of a 6 year sentence.AnHonorableMention wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 4:24 pm Lastly, I saw Tyson mentioned and his deal with AEW. Mike, served his time, found religion, sought mental health treatment and does so continually to this day. That doesn't erase what he did, he'll be the first to admit it and how he copes with the guilt on a daily basis. I have been around a lot of people in my life growing up with a former prosecutor for a father who have committed crimes, not a one has shown the empathy and tried to repair their reputation like Mike Tyson has done. There's no erasing the action, but the follow up and penance after time served is what shows the character of a person. Seeing how Mike has handled his children, his current wife, and grown his brand shows that he's learned from his experience of disgusting criminal behavior.
He's also a repeat offender. This is all just the stuff that came out AFTER he went to jail. His rap sheet pre-jail is longer:
In 1993 he was accused of a 1991 battery by a beauty pageant contestant.
In 1996 he was accused of sexual battery at a nightclub.
In 1998 he was sued for physical and verbal abuse by two women from an incident at a bistro.
In 1998 (one month later) he plead no contest to a misdemeanor assault for beating up two men after a car accident.
In 2001 he was accused of raping a 50 year old woman but no charges were filed.
In 2002 it was announced he was under investigation for another 2001 rape.
Later in 2002 he was under investigation for yet another 2001 rape.
In 2004 he accepted a plea deal after he beat up two autograph seekers.
He also wrote in his own book that he once climbed up on the roof of his house and began throwing cinder blocks at his then-wife because she "didn't like the peanut butter cookies he had baked". He told the story as if the wife were the unreasonable one for calling the police.
His "reform" happened because people thought he was funny in the Hangover. That's it. He's a freaking serial rapist, a serial woman beater, and a generally unstable, violent individual.
Mike has been in therapy since his release and been arrested a grand total of zero times since serving his debt to society. Try again.
EDIT: Also holy shit you went back to June 25 to find this. Get a hobby.
You can talk about therapy all you want but when an already convicted rapist hires one of the same attorneys who represented Bill Cosby and Michael Jackson to get him out of several subsequent rape accusations, I tend to believe the accusers.
All of the incidents listed are public record. Mike was still denying he ever raped anybody on his podcast as recently as this year, as I watched the episode featuring Shannon Briggs.
And again, he didn't "serve his debt". They sent a grown ass heavyweight champion boxer to a juvenile's prison for a rape he committed at 25 years old, allowed him daily conjugal visits, then let him out before half his term was served.