Just to be clear, you get a shorter sentence here for beating the absolute shit out of people. Rapists have been given less time. You could do the exact same thing but Vladimir you did it because god hates gay people or whatever and barely spend a day in prison.

They were given those sentences because these protests are working. So, the fossil fuel lobby's plan is to make the human cost of it not worth doing.

Yes, they really are that cartoonishly villainous.