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Sexual Misconduct Was Extensive At Coachella’s First Weekend, Report Says
cbs2la ^ | April 20, 2018 at 10:15 pm

Posted on 04/21/2018 8:46:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin

In a piece published Wednesday, journalist Vera Papisova said she was groped 22 times over a 10-hour period while attending Coachella, saying that she was “repeatedly violated by strangers.” Papisova described being followed, grabbed, insulted, spoken to inappropriately and groped on multiple occasions.

Teen Vogue said all 54 women who spoke to the magazine during Coachella had a story about being sexually assaulted or harassed over that weekend.

Meanwhile, Indio police would not confirm to CBS2 how many complaints of sexual misconduct were made during the first weekend.

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“I would’ve expected to see something on their website, in terms of what to do if that happens to you since it is such a prevalent issue at music events, in general,” Papisova said.

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Last week, the program coordinator for the Sexual Assault Response Team at Eisenhower Hospital in Rancho Mirage told KMIR-TV that it sees a major spike in calls during Coachella, often getting a month’s worth of calls in just the two weekends. Many of the cases involve drugs, date rape drugs and alcohol, KMIR reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: coachella; indio; teenvogue; verapapisova
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1 posted on 04/21/2018 8:46:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I thought Coachella was just about all these phony rich celebrities getting to dress up like hippies.


2 posted on 04/21/2018 8:47:26 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

No, that would be Burning Man. Where there is never any sexual misconduct. #metwoorthree


3 posted on 04/21/2018 8:50:31 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

No, it’s Coachella, too.

Every celebrity has to get their picture taken there.


4 posted on 04/21/2018 8:53:38 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

I am not in the loop. What the hella is coachella?


5 posted on 04/21/2018 8:54:52 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (a pures)
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To: BenLurkin

I am not in the loop. What the hella is coachella?


6 posted on 04/21/2018 8:54:52 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (a pures)
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To: certrtwngnut

A series of musical events held in the golden state in the spring. I hear bee-ounce-eh was there the other day screeching about no more polite politics and furtherance of blackness. Or something.


7 posted on 04/21/2018 8:57:49 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Because celebrities are “better than you”.....

All the Celebrities at Coachella This Year
https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/g3631/celebrities-at-coachella-2016/


8 posted on 04/21/2018 8:58:19 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I already knew that. LOL!


9 posted on 04/21/2018 9:01:11 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: BenLurkin

Glitter-boobs are popular at Coachella this year. That’s probably why. :)


10 posted on 04/21/2018 9:05:37 AM PDT by Keeper of the Turf (Fore!!!)
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To: Keeper of the Turf

Who wants to bet that many of the “sexual assaults” were women crowdsurfing and being “touched inappropriately?” Young women will do anything for attention these days.


11 posted on 04/21/2018 9:08:11 AM PDT by jyo19
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To: BenLurkin
no thanks vera!


12 posted on 04/21/2018 9:08:12 AM PDT by ethom
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To: BenLurkin

What a shocker.


13 posted on 04/21/2018 9:14:47 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: BenLurkin

Just leave the stupid festival.


14 posted on 04/21/2018 9:20:13 AM PDT by barbarianbabs
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To: ethom

Isn’t that the chick who sang “Voices Carry”?


15 posted on 04/21/2018 9:21:40 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

She certainly has the RBF for it.


16 posted on 04/21/2018 9:26:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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17 posted on 04/21/2018 9:26:54 AM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t even know what sexual assault or sexual harassment means anymore.


18 posted on 04/21/2018 9:29:51 AM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: BenLurkin

She was groped 22 times in ten hours, but it took a lot of effort on her part to find those best places to be groped, and to repeatedly go out of her way to surf back through those hotspots, while dressed like a streetwalker, and ringing a “come and get it” dinner bell...

She certainly was not hiding away in a nunnery.


19 posted on 04/21/2018 9:31:32 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BBell

“I don’t even know what sexual assault or sexual harassment means anymore.”

Toss in “racism”.

L


20 posted on 04/21/2018 9:33:50 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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