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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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To: certrtwngnut
'Woodstock' with colored lights and a ferris-wheel.and lots of food booths.
41 posted on 04/21/2018 10:29:34 AM PDT by caww
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To: ethom

Vera gots dee E~V~I~L eye!


42 posted on 04/21/2018 10:34:21 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: dfwgator

I must be way out of the in-crowd loop because I don’t even know what Coachella is.


43 posted on 04/21/2018 10:36:17 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: fella

Consider yourself lucky.


44 posted on 04/21/2018 10:38:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Oh, not the rats! I hate rats!


45 posted on 04/21/2018 10:38:35 AM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: caww

Tennessee has a music gathering called Bonaroo. Ties up traffic on the interstate for the week and maybe a couple drug overdose deaths, but mostly about heat stroke. Haven’t heard much about sexual abuse tbere....yet.


46 posted on 04/21/2018 10:42:34 AM PDT by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: fella

Drudge links to the UK daily Mail a lot.
This time of year there are HUNDREDS of articles posted about the kardashians, Paris hilton etc describing coachella.
If i was 20 again i’d hit it like Vanessa Hudgens....(DM reference)...


47 posted on 04/21/2018 10:43:14 AM PDT by mowowie (uire lab;)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks BenLurkin. She should consider getting a job.

48 posted on 04/21/2018 10:44:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: caww
I asked my daughter. She's 22. She could go on for 15 or 20 minutes back and forth with me before we tired and I pissed her off. It basically came down to what the women thinks it is.

I like pissing my daughter off. She's meaner then a snake. I have to be careful though, she's going to school to be an undertaker. My sons a mimbo.

49 posted on 04/21/2018 10:45:09 AM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: BBell
I don’t even know what sexual assault or sexual harassment means anymore.

You're breathing and have electrical brain activity. Therefore you are an abuser.

50 posted on 04/21/2018 10:56:07 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (This account has been banned or suspended.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

She’d be cute if the carpet matched the drapes.


To achieve that effect, your girl would need to be a bit over 80...


51 posted on 04/21/2018 10:58:36 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: BenLurkin

Why was she counting?


52 posted on 04/21/2018 10:58:56 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: jyo19

I thanked him, and he proceeded to say he’d love to get in the bathroom stall with me.


Whenever I’m in a porta potty, My mind immediately goes to a romantic entanglement. Especially a porta potty in a huge crowded festival. That’s hot.


53 posted on 04/21/2018 11:01:43 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

LOL

I hold my nose the whole time....don’t know how long i could hold it during a “romantic” encounter in one of those things...


54 posted on 04/21/2018 11:09:37 AM PDT by mowowie (uire lab;)
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To: BBell

Well she sounds like my sons one daughter, same age, was not uncommon they went toe to toe... now she has a terrific boyfiend who knows just how to handle her as well. He doesn’t take her nonsense.


55 posted on 04/21/2018 11:24:06 AM PDT by caww
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To: mowowie

Seriously. I only joined the Mile High Club when SwissAir had huge sparkling clean bathrooms!


56 posted on 04/21/2018 11:34:45 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: ethom

Wow. When did ‘she’ transition?


57 posted on 04/21/2018 11:35:51 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: BenLurkin

The definition of sexual harassment is so elastic it includes saying, “Good morning,” in the wrong tone of voice. It’s amazing one hundred percent of the women aren’t claiming harassment.


58 posted on 04/21/2018 11:39:21 AM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: BBell

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

Sexual assault means your son asking a girl out on a date only to find that he’s now facing a rape charge because he made the girl feel ‘uncomfortable’. Sexual harassment is doing the same, but only an expulsion tribunal at college, again for making the girl feel ‘uncomfortable’.

...and people wonder why I told my boys to not even consider American wives. At least not until there are some SERIOUS changes, which ain’t going to happen.


59 posted on 04/21/2018 11:39:49 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: BenLurkin

And young single women goes to these things because they are sure any young single men going to them are perfect gentlemen?

No, I am not saying any inappropriate behavior is “deserved”. Then again, if I were a young woman I wouldn’t go places where I am relatively sure such inappropriate behavior has a high chance of occurring, and if I did just happen to go I would go only with a number of friends - more than two - and I would ALWAYS be together with those friends; never alone.


60 posted on 04/21/2018 11:51:25 AM PDT by Wuli
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