I think the thing I am having difficulty with in this case (and I can't believe how much time I've wasted being bothered by it) is trying to separate my disgust for the media from what has become a disdain for the accusor. I don't know if this woman was raped -- and I shouldn't pretend that I do -- but I can so much more easily put myself in position of the accused lacrosse players and the talking heads have just continually pounded these guys.
One of the woman attorneys on tv last night said that something awful happened at that house because they cleared out when they heard the cops were coming, like this was some type of sign that something awful happened there. I've been at a number of parties in college where we fled because we heard the cops were coming only because people were underaged drinking. Why stay there and get caught when you can flee?
I'm also not sure that we should be plastering the alleged victim's face all over the news (which obviously they aren't) but it's pretty scary when any woman can accuse me of rape and I'll be incarcerated and paraded around as an accused rapist whether I did it or not. I can't remember something that has made me want to throw the remote control through the tv screen as much as watching some of the reporting of this case.
The LAX players likely fled because the skank told them they better pay up or she was going to call her pimp.
He is not one of the womens' attorneys; he is a mouthpiece for Nifong; and most of what he said was utter rubbish and not rooted in fact.
He was making it up.
"I'm also not sure that we should be plastering the alleged victim's face all over the news (which obviously they aren't) but it's pretty scary when any woman can accuse me of rape and I'll be incarcerated and paraded around as an accused rapist whether I did it or not. I can't remember something that has made me want to throw the remote control through the tv screen as much as watching some of the reporting of this case."
I'm with you there. I'm sickened by how quickly the media has been to judge these young men as rapists without knowing any of the facts of the case, but criminals of other color get a pass daily for worse crimes. These young men need to be investigated, in case some did attack her, but to simply assume that they were capable of rape, it's stomach turning. College kids do stupid things, but this?
My hunch is she showed up wasted, gave them a lame "show", or more likely skipped the "show" and went right to soliciting sex, got stiffed on the fee by the guys, and this is her payback. There is no fury like a black woman scorned, I know, I dated one. Lovely woman, but piss her off - move out of the state, now.
If these kids are found guilty, I say disbarr and punish this D.A. I doubt it will happen, but one can hope. Regardless of the outcome, this case has made a mockery of this D.A.'s office, and they should be removed. This is not justice, this is a circus.