Posted on 07/21/2024 7:47:19 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
After spending 14 years in jail, woman meets the man she falsely accused of rape.
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Nope! Not even a little.
Granted, I was just a kid, a pre-teen at the time so my memory may be a bit fuzzy, but my older brother’s wife worked at a mid-rise office building in downtown Baltimore in the early 70’s.
She was on an elevator from the upper most floor to the lobby with a young black man, probably in his mid-20’s, he worked for a messenger service, and she’d received and signed for the weekly PR package from him before so recognized him, and he was calm and friendly, and they struck up a short conversation.
Then the elevator stopped a few floors below, the elevator door opened, but nobody got on, but then they heard a woman scream and saw a young black guy run past, she thought toward a stairwell.
He seemed to be of a similar age, build and height and wearing a similar blue shirt and blue pants as the man on the elevator with her but it happened so fast, she couldn’t be sure.
And it happened so fast that they didn’t have time to stop the elevator before the door closed and it continued to the lobby, and it was an old building, and the elevator ran very slowly and made several more stops.
When the elevator finally stopped at the lobby, the building’s security was already waiting and detained the black man from the elevator and soon the police arrived. He was hand cuffed and interrogated and roughly handled.
A woman had been sexually assaulted in a bathroom and while the police were detaining him, they had her walk by him, and she positively identified him as her assailant. But she remembered hearing the police telling the poor woman who had been assaulted that “we got him” BEFORE they asked her to identify him.
But my SIL told the police what she saw and how he couldn’t have been the man they were looking for.
She told them about the elevator stopping on the floor where the assault happed, hearing the woman scream, seeing another man run by and that the black man they were detaining had been on the elevator with her the entire time, from the top floor all the way down to the lobby.
And others in her office confirmed he had been there delivering the weekly payroll package and had been made to wait at least 20 minutes before someone finally came to sign for it and he had been waiting there the entire time, so he couldn’t have been the man who assaulted the woman.
She also told them about the man she saw running toward the stairwell.
He was finally released but only after they found the perp, hiding behind a dumpster behind the building - not only had he assaulted her sexually, but he had also stolen her purse which was found on him.
And FWIW, he was much older and didn’t have quite the same build, his hair was short, and the messenger had an Afro.
My SIL also told the police that after the elevator stopped and they both heard the scream, he tried to stop the elevator to try to render assistance.
I can only imagine if my SIL hadn’t been on that elevator with him that day and was a witness as to what happened, what may have happened to an innocent person falsely identified.
> Lies destroy peoples’ lives. <
So true. Marilyn vos Savant reportedly has the world’s highest IQ. (IQ = 228). Someone once asked her: If you could successfully invent just one thing, what would it be?
Her answer: A 100% accurate lie detector.
Side note: I once took an IQ test that was in a Playboy magazine (which I bought for the articles). I scored 227…just one more point and people would be quoting me instead. 🙁
The headline makes it look like she WAS the one who spent 14 years in jail. Terrible headline writer.
If she felt any real shame, as she claims, she wouldn’t put herself on national TV.
This looks like a particularly egregious example of a dangling participle.
Wow. Good bless you and keep you.
The accused.
The man she accused spent 14 years in jail.
The headline says that she spent 14 years in jail. That’s what should have happened. False accusers must get the jail time the innocent man would have gotten.
After spending 14 years in jail, a man met the woman who falsely accused him.
If I remember my grammar school rules, the original headline was a classic example of a dangling participle. Or something like that.
Wow. Thank God for your SIL!
My thought exactly. Such a confusingly ungrammatical sentence.
Not nearly as egregious an offense as dandling your participles.
“who spent 14 years in jail”
No we already told you, Who’s on first! :D
Another professional headline from the MSM
I asked my wife what should be punishment for this woman.
She replied “14 years”
Yes.
A lot of men have spent time in prison for being falsely accused of rape and her husband/boyfriend took the bait of what she was doing on the side.
Had a friend whos brother did 3 years for it when her husband came home early.
I get that. But that's not what the idiot who sent the tweet wrote. Apparently, expressing yourself clearly is an impossibility for some.
Our dysfunctional legal system.
I ask the question again. If someone did not do it, how do you *PROVE* they did?
Legal system requires ridiculous extremes of proof for vote fraud, but apparently very little proof for convicting a man for rape.
We have a broken system.
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