Sept. 7, 2025

"CHRIS BROWN, MARK WAHLBERG, CHRISTIAN SLATER, NICHOLAS CAGE: When Celebrities Attack (And Walk Free)"

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Reid Carter presents a compilation of celebrity violence that ended in slaps on the wrist. Chris Brown turned Rihanna's face into a crime scene - got probation and a comeback tour. Mark Wahlberg committed a racist hate crime that permanently blinded a man - served 45 days. Christian Slater's decade of violence - community service every time. Nicolas Cage put his hands on his wife - charges vanished like his good movies. From R&B stars to action heroes, Sunday proves that in America's two-tier justice system, fame means never having to serve hard time for violent crime.

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Calarogus Shark Media.

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Good morning, I'm Red Carter. Sunday, September seventh, twenty twenty five.

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Yesterday we examined how Robert Blake murdered his wife and

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walked free. Today we look at the celebrity assault industrial complex,

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where famous people can beat, blind, and brutalize regular humans

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and get less time than you'd get for shoplifting. Chris Brown,

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Mark Wahlberg, Christian Slater, Nicholas Cage household names who should

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be prison numbers. This is part two of our two

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tier Justice System special, where we prove that in America,

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your sentence isn't based on your crime, It's based on

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your IMDb page. This is Celebrity Trials. Let's start with

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Christopher Morris Brown Grammy Winner Dancing Sensation Woman Beater, February eighth,

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two thousand and nine, Pre Grammy Party. Chris Brown and

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Rihanna Robin Fenti are driving in his Lamborghini through Los Angeles.

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An argument starts about a text message from another woman.

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Words escalate, Then Chris Brown does what Chris Brown does.

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He explodes. But this wasn't just hitting, This wasn't a slap.

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This was attempted murder, according to the police report, and

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I'm going to read this because people forget how bad

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it was. Brown punched her repeatedly in the face with

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his right hand while steering with his left. The assault

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caused Robin's mouth to fill with blood and blood to

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splatter over her clothing and the interior of the vehicle.

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He punched her while driving. Think about that coordination. That's

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practiced violence. But he wasn't done. When Rihanna tried to

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call for help, Brown threw her phone out the window.

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When she tried to get out, he punched her again. Then,

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and this is where it becomes attempted murder. He put

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her in a head started choking her. Rihanna told police

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she started losing consciousness she couldn't breathe. She later said

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she thought she was going to die in that car,

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that Chris Brown was going to choke her to death

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over a text message. When she regained some consciousness, Brown

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bit her, bit her like an animal, left bite marks

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on her fingers and body. He threatened to kill her,

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said I'm going to beat the shit out of you

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when we get home. You wait and see. Then, realizing

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what he'd done, seeing her face destroyed, he said, now

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I'm really going to kill you. A witness called nine

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to one one. Police found Rihanna with facial contusions, a

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split lip, and bite marks. The photo, that horrific photo

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that leaked showed a woman who'd been brutalized. Her face

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was swollen beyond recognition, both eyes nearly shut, blood everywhere.

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This wasn't a salt, this was torture. Chris Brown's sentence

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five years probation, six months community service, one year of

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domestic violence counseling. He nearly killed one of the most

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famous women in the world, and he got community service.

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If a regular person, if you punched someone repeatedly while driving,

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choked them unconscious, bit them, and threatened to kill them,

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you'd get attempted murder charges fifteen to life. Chris Brown

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got to pick up trash on the highway. But here's

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what really makes me sick. His career recovered by twenty eleven.

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He was back on the Grammys, won a Grammy in

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twenty twelve, has released multiple platinum albums Since he beat

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a woman nearly to death, and his punishment was continued

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success and he didn't learn. Twenty thirteen, Arrested for assault

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in DC. Twenty sixteen, arrested for assault with a deadly weapon,

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twenty seventeen restraining order from ex girlfriend Karochhr for threatening

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to kill her. Twenty nineteen, arrested for rape in Paris.

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Charges dropped twenty twenty one under investigation for hitting a

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woman pattern. Chris Brown is a serial abuser who should

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be in prison. Instead, he's worth fifty million dollars and

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still making music. Rihanna, she had to see her abuser celebrated,

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watched him win Grammys, watched him get comeback tours, watched

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the industry embrace him. She forgave him publicly, probably for

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her own peace, But forgiveness doesn't mean he should escape justice.

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Chris Brown proved that you can beat a woman within

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an inch of her life, have photographic evidence of your violence,

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confess to it, and still be a free millionaire. That's

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not justice. That's celebrity privilege at its most disgusting. Now

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let's talk about Mark Wahlberg. Marky Mark the Fighter Ted Transformers,

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a list Hollywood royalty worth four hundred million dollars. Also

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a violent racist who permanently blinded a man and served

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forty five days. It was April nineteen eighty eight, and

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Wahlberg was sixteen, old enough to know better. He was

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high on PCP and decided to commit some hate crimes. First,

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he attacked Than Lam, a Vietnamese man, with a five

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foot wooden stick, called him a Vietnam fucking shit, beat

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him unconscious, left him bleeding on the ground. Then, fleeing

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that scene, he attacked another Vietnamese man, Johnny Trinn, punched

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him in the eye, called him a gook, and other slurs.

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The punch permanently blinded Trin in that eye, permanent blindness

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from a hate crime. When police arrested Wahlberg, he told them,

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you don't have to let him identify me. I'll tell

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you now, that's the motherfucker whose head I split open,

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proud of it, bragging about it. His sentence. He was

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tried as an adult for attempted murder, pled guilty to assault,

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got two years, served forty five days forty five days

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for a racist attack that left one man unconscious and

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another permanently disabled. If a young black man had attacked

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two white men calling them racial slurs, leaving one unconscious

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and one blind, would he serve forty five days, He'd

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still be in prison. Today. But Mark Wahlberg was young

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and white and sorry, so sorry that in twenty fourteen

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he applied for a pardon, wanted his record cleared so

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he could get a liquor license for his restaurants. Think

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about that entitlement. I committed hate crimes, but they're interfering

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with my business ventures, so let's erase them. The pardon

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was denied after public outcry, but Wahlberg still became one

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of Hollywood's highest paid actors. He's played cops, military heroes,

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working class heroes, good guys, all while being an actual,

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convicted violent racist. In interviews, he says he's forgiven himself great.

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Has he found than Lamb and Johnny Trinn? Has he

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paid for Trin's medical care? Has he used his four

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hundred million dollars to make amends?

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No?

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He made Transformers movies in Burger restaurants. This is the

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two tier system. A regular person commits a bias motivated

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assault resulting in permanent disability. That's decades in prison. A

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future celebrity does it. That's forty five days and a

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Hollywood career. Mark Wahlberg should be a cautionary tale about

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violent racism. Instead, he's proof that being white and eventually

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famous means never having to really pay for your crimes.

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Let's do a speed round of celebrity violence that ended

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in nothing. Christian Slater, remember him, Heather's true romance mister Robot,

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also a serial violent offender who somehow never went to prison.

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Nineteen eighty nine. Arrested for drunk driving and assault on

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a police officer tried to grab the officer's gun. Sentence

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ten days in jail. Nineteen ninety four. Arrested for trying

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to board a plane with a gun. Sentence community service

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nineteen ninety seven. The Big One Slater got high on

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heroin and cocaine, beat his girlfriend, Michelle Jonas, then attacked

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the police, who responded, bit a man on the stomach

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who tried to help bit him. Sentence ninety days in jail,

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served fifty nine. If you attacked your girlfriend, then attacked police,

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then bit a good samaritan while high on heroin, you'd

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get years. Slater got fifty nine days. Two thousand and

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five arrested for sexually harassing a woman on the street.

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Charges mysteriously dropped pattern. Christian Slater is violent, especially toward women,

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and faces no real consequences. Because he's famous now. Nicholas Cage,

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Academy Award winner National Treasure, also a domestic abuser whose

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charges keep disappearing. April twenty eleven, arrested in New Orleans

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for domestic abuse and disturbing the peace. His wife, Alice Kim,

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had visible injuries. Charges dropped. The police report described Cage

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as heavily intoxicated, grabbing his wife by the arm, dragging her.

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When a taxi driver intervened, Cage dared police to arrest him.

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They did. He posted eleven thousand dollars bail. Charges vanished.

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Twenty eighteen, arrested again for domestic violence against wife Erica Koike.

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She filed for a restraining order. Again, charges dropped. Why

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do Cage's charges keep disappearing? Money fame lawyers, the same

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reason all celebrity charges disappear. A regular person with multiple

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domestic violence arrests is in prison. Nicholas Cage is still

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making straight to video movies and owing the irs millions.

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The pattern is clear. If you're famous, you can beat

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women repeatedly and never see the inside of a cell.

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We're back with more in just a moment. So what

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have we learned from our two tier Justice System Weekend Special.

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Robert Blake murdered his wife, walked free. Chris Brown nearly

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killed Rihanna, got probation. Mark Wahlberg blinded a man in

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racist attack, served forty five days. Christian Slater multiple violent assaults,

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minimal jail time, Nicholas Cage multiple domestic violence arrests, zero consequences.

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The pattern isn't subtle, it's blazing neon obvious. If you're famous,

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violent crime gets you probation. If you're regular, it gets

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you prison. If you're a celebrity who attacks women, you

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get anger management classes. When nobody who attacks women you

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get years behind bars. If you're rich and white and famous,

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forty five days is enough for a hate crime. If

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you're poor and black and nobody, forty five years might

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not be enough. This isn't conspiracy theory. This is documented fact.

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We have the court records, the sentences, the proof. But

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nothing changes. Chris Brown still has a career, Mark Wahlberg

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is still a movie star, Christian Slater is still working,

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Nicholas Cage is still free. Meanwhile, right now, someone is

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serving life for drug possession. Someone is doing decades for

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a fight that ended in injury. Someone is in prison

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for far less than what these celebrities did. The two

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tier justice system isn't just unfair, it's dangerous. It tells

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celebrities they're untouchable. It tells victims they don't matter if

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their attacker is famous. It tells society that violence is

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acceptable if you have enough Instagram followers. Every time Chris

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Brown releases a new song, it's a middle finger to justice.

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Every Mark Wahlberg movie is built on the blindness of

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Johnny Trinn. Every Christian Slater role is performed by someone

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who should be in prison. We accept this. We buy

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their music, watch their movies, follow their social media. We

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participate in the two tier system by rewarding criminals with

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continued fame. And they know it. They know they're untouchable.

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That's why Chris Brown has been arrested five times since Rihanna.

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That's why they keep doing it because in America's two

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tier justice system, fame isn't just a privilege, it's immunity.

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That's Celebrity Trials. For Sunday, September seventh, this weekend, we've

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shown you the two tiers of American justice, the celebrity

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tier where murder gets you acquitted and assault gets you probation,

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and the regular tier where selling loose cigarettes gets you

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killed by police. Robert Blake died a free man at

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eighty nine. Chris Brown is planning his next tour. Mark

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Wahlberg is worth four hundred million dollars. Christian Slater and

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Nicholas Cage are still making movies. They're victims, dead, blind, traumatized, forgotten. Tomorrow,

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we're back to regular coverage. The Donna Addelson verdict watch continues.

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The Kiss and Kill Trial enters day three, and probably

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another celebrity will assault someone and get away with it.

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I'm read Carter. This has been our two tier justice

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system special, proving that in America, justice isn't blind, she

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just has a VIP section. The call isn't just coming

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from inside the house. It's coming from the Hollywood Hills,

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where celebrities can literally get away with murder. See you tomorrow.

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The proceeding was for entertainment purposes only. All information was

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obtained from public sources and media reports, which may contain inaccuracies.

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Fews expressed are those of the host. Callaroga. Shark Media

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disclaims responsibility for all statements made