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Man attempted to sexually assault woman in Van Nuys while witnesses did nothing, police say
Los Angeles Times ^ | AUGUST 16, 2017 | Hailey Branson-Potts

Posted on 08/18/2017 3:19:25 PM PDT by george76

Los Angeles police are searching for a man who tried to sexually assault a woman outside her Van Nuys apartment while people walked by and cars slowed down without intervening, authorities said.

At about 5:45 a.m. Saturday, the woman was walking to her apartment in the 14000 block of Vanowen Street when she was confronted by a man trying to speak to her in Spanish, which she does not speak, authorities said. She told police he smelled of alcohol.

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The woman kept the struggle in full view of security cameras, which captured the attack, authorities said.

Surveillance video shows another woman walking by and cars slowing down, but police said no one responded to the attack or called 911. As she tried to fight off her attacker, the woman screamed, “Fire! Fire!” to try to get people’s attention.

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“Even if people don’t feel comfortable, necessarily, getting involved physically, there’s nothing wrong with standing to the side, dialing 911 to at least make that phone call, and that’s all we’re asking,” LAPD Det. Eric Rose said

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; criminals; lapd; leftyparadise; losangeles; rape; sanctuary; sanctuarycity; vannuys
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1 posted on 08/18/2017 3:19:25 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Manly men-where are they?


2 posted on 08/18/2017 3:24:17 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: george76

Most likely DEMOCRATS....so who cares?


3 posted on 08/18/2017 3:25:12 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: george76

Despite the nonchalance, a little voice told those who did nothing that they did wrong, very wrong.


4 posted on 08/18/2017 3:25:54 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: george76
Appalling? Yes. Inexcusable? Yes. But reverse the roles.

A woman is attacking a man. How do women usually respond?

5 posted on 08/18/2017 3:27:52 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: george76

How does anyone know that person wasn’t MS-13? In LA, they import MS-13 as a humanitarian policy.


6 posted on 08/18/2017 3:28:24 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: george76

It’s the woman’s fault because she could not speak Spanish. /sarc


7 posted on 08/18/2017 3:29:04 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: george76

I would not get physical with the would be rapist because of my age, but I sure as hell would call 911, get descriptions, honk my horn, and not leave the scene.


8 posted on 08/18/2017 3:32:44 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: george76

Sam Colt has a solution for this...


9 posted on 08/18/2017 3:34:54 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: george76

Kitty Genovese.


10 posted on 08/18/2017 3:36:20 PM PDT by SkyDancer (There Are Three Great Ways To Perfect Landings - Unfortunately We Pilots Don't Know Them.)
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To: george76

Kitty Genovese.


11 posted on 08/18/2017 3:36:28 PM PDT by SkyDancer (There Are Three Great Ways To Perfect Landings - Unfortunately We Pilots Don't Know Them.)
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Racists! Not allowing that poor immigrant to exercise his cultural enrichment on that reich-wing female! Oppressors!

/every leftard everywhere.


12 posted on 08/18/2017 3:39:58 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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Bystander apathy is a hard to overcome psychological phenomenon
13 posted on 08/18/2017 3:40:16 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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Illegal aliens must be removed BEFORE they harm of kill Americans.


14 posted on 08/18/2017 3:48:39 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: george76

I learned a long time ago through personal experience that you never get between a man and a woman who are fighting. You will probably get clobbered by both.


15 posted on 08/18/2017 3:49:07 PM PDT by arthurus
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Illegal aliens must be removed BEFORE they harm of kill Americans.

We have a president who is trying to do just that in addition to bringing jobs back and rebuilding our infrastructure, and look at how around half of Americans are treating him.

16 posted on 08/18/2017 3:50:39 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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How many were recording it on their smartphones hoping for violence and blood so they could upload it and be thought cool by their friends?


17 posted on 08/18/2017 3:51:11 PM PDT by PROCON (President Reagan, your worthy successor has arrived to save our beloved America)
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To: arthurus

Investigators said the attacker and victim did not know each other.

she was confronted by a man trying to speak to her in Spanish, which she does not speak,


18 posted on 08/18/2017 4:00:56 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

Seriously? Stupid analogy.


19 posted on 08/18/2017 4:15:51 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: SkyDancer

Read up on the Kitty Genovese case. It wasn’t nearly the portrait of social indifference that it was made out to be.

A.M. Rosenthal and the NYT had an agenda.


20 posted on 08/18/2017 4:27:15 PM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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