So she was handcuffed and detained in the back of a van, said she was raped, and went to the hospital to get a rape kit immediately, which showed the cops' semen inside of her, but the court still somehow decided it was consensual? How?
This is probably one of the most rage inducing stories I've ever heard of. All the facts and evidence are there, and they STILL got away with gang raping a handcuffed teenage girl in the back of their police van, with no jailtime and no rape conviction. She did everything right, too.
The victim immediately went to the hospital to get a rape kit, and 9 NYPD officers showed up at the hospital to bully and intimidate her and her mom out of pressing charges, in typical "thin blue line" fashion. The rape kit did, in fact, prove the presence of semen from both officers, the officers admitted to it, and they were initially charged with over 40 counts, but prosecutors dropped all charges against them. The law technically didn't EXPLICITLY say that police officers can't rape prisoners, so they dropped the charges of sexual assault, kidnapping, false imprisonment, etc. Instead, they charged them with some bullshit, "Accepting sexual favors as bribery" charges, as if the rape victim tried to bribe them with rape. Oh and they found some racey Instagram photos so I guess she wanted them to gang rape her. /s.
At the time, state law did not assert the most obvious of facts: that a person in police custody cannot consent to sex. The egregious legal loophole has since been closed, but it was too late to benefit Chambers — or to stop Martins and Hall from getting away with rape. All rape charges against the officers were dropped in March as prosecutors questioned Chambers’s credibility — an issue that should have had no bearing in a case with such clear-cut facts.
I'm no anarchist, but the city should've burned for this one.
poomaster421-1 on August 5th, 2020 at 16:54 UTC »
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/07/nypd-rape-charges-dropped-anna-chambers/
Story incase anyone wants it
RahvinDragand on August 5th, 2020 at 17:26 UTC »
So she was handcuffed and detained in the back of a van, said she was raped, and went to the hospital to get a rape kit immediately, which showed the cops' semen inside of her, but the court still somehow decided it was consensual? How?
FTThrowAway123 on August 5th, 2020 at 17:55 UTC »
This is probably one of the most rage inducing stories I've ever heard of. All the facts and evidence are there, and they STILL got away with gang raping a handcuffed teenage girl in the back of their police van, with no jailtime and no rape conviction. She did everything right, too.
The victim immediately went to the hospital to get a rape kit, and 9 NYPD officers showed up at the hospital to bully and intimidate her and her mom out of pressing charges, in typical "thin blue line" fashion. The rape kit did, in fact, prove the presence of semen from both officers, the officers admitted to it, and they were initially charged with over 40 counts, but prosecutors dropped all charges against them. The law technically didn't EXPLICITLY say that police officers can't rape prisoners, so they dropped the charges of sexual assault, kidnapping, false imprisonment, etc. Instead, they charged them with some bullshit, "Accepting sexual favors as bribery" charges, as if the rape victim tried to bribe them with rape. Oh and they found some racey Instagram photos so I guess she wanted them to gang rape her. /s.
The officers who raped her served no jail time.
I'm no anarchist, but the city should've burned for this one.