Posted on 01/29/2020 8:26:06 PM PST by ZagFan
Abigail Disney has weighed in on Kobe Bryant's controversial past, after actress Evan Rachel Wood and a Washington Post journalist were berated for tweeting about a rape allegation against him from 2003, just hours after his death in a helicopter crash Sunday.
Disney - whose grandfather Roy O. Disney co-founded The Walt Disney Company - tweeted: 'I haven't said anything about Kobe so far because I felt some time needed to pass before weighing in. But yes, it's time for the sledgehammer to come out. The man was a rapist. Deal with it.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
1. He’s dead.
2. Accusations do not equate to evidence of guilt.
“Well, was he a rapist?”
personally, i don’t think so, and never did ... i live in colorado and when the news broke that some mountain hotel maid in colorado was claiming rape, i didn’t even know who kobe bryant was ... but when i realized he was a famous basketball player and i listened to her story, i concluded even then that she was a low-life hotel maid that was simply trying to extort some bucks from a rich and famous guy ...
There are numerous verb tenses.
However, if you like, Clinton will still BE a rapist after he’s dead. He’ll be a dead rapist. You’ll *never* get closure that way.
“Yes, he was. He admitted as much.”
bullshit ... he always claimed the sex was consensual and she was simply trying to shake him down ...
Dead rapist is the best kind.
Are you and others Ive seen say this serious? So even if it was undeniably true that a person was a rapist we should never say it because he is dead? Is there a certain time period after death we shouldn’t say it? Does this apply also if the person was convicted of said crime and imprisoned? This is just absurd. There is strong evidence he raped a woman. I’s an undeniable part of his legacy. Yes deal with it
Idolizing understates what sports fans are doing in Los Angeles.
If Abigail went to college (and I don't know why she would bother since she's worth millions) she likely attended a sexual assault lecture where she was told, 'look to your left. Now look to your right. One of the men sitting on either side of you is going to attempt to rape you'.
There's a group of women who believe every man is a potential rapist (though it's not a bad idea to be cautious of people you don't know well) and when a woman says she was raped you have to believer her (despite the examples we have of women lying about being raped) so it's easy for her to believe Kobe committed rape.
You can't reason with these kind of women. All you can do is avoid them.
Wasn’t everyone calling him a rapist just a few short years ago?
And al-Baghdadi was an “austere religious scholar”.
Did you research the case, because you seem to know nothing about it, and are making a bunch of incorrect assumptions.
“[The nurse] stated that there were several lacerations to the victim’s posterior fourchette or vaginal area, and two of those lacerations were approximately one centimeter in length,” testified Det. Winters. “And there were many, I believe, 2 millimeter lacerations. Too many to count… [The nurse] stated that the injuries were consistent with penetrating genital trauma. That it’s not consistent with consensual sex.”
Det. Winters further stated that the nurse told him the vaginal injuries had most likely occurred within “24 hours,” and that the accuser had “a small bruise on her left jaw line.” Also, that examiners had found “blood excretions” on Bryant’s T-shirt “to about the waistline.” The blood, testified Det. Winters, had “the same DNA profile as the victim in this case.”
There is a lot of money to be made by accusing a rich man of rape.
This POS rotten feminazi would not STFU during Kavanaugh and even hurling sh*t at the wife and children (via Tweets how brave). The difference was that Kavanaugh didn’t do any of what was alleged by that POS fake Ford and Bryant pretty much admitted to it without admitting to it legally. The woman raped by Bryant was very credible and was believed but NOT by the scum left ironically.
The DailyBeast article is leaving out information.
He was either a rapist or he engaged in very rough sex with a stranger without permission for the roughness (choking, bruises, vaginal tears and bleeding) which would have become rape when she protested the choking and pain and he didn’t stop.
Maybe people mentioning the rape are partly objecting to the adulation of Kobe Bryant, the public grief, the required condolences and sorrow from any public figure with a Twitter account.
Surely many of the people feeling so shocked and bereft have lost someone close. Don’t they know what real grief and loss is? What is the point of all this public ritual? The man was a gifted athlete and an entertainer.
Like Princess Diana (and the people with her) and JFK jr (and his wife and her sister), Kobe Bryant (and the people with him, afterthoughts) died precisely because he was rich and famous.
[Everybody keeps talking about anal rape, apparently because that was the rumor at the time. Care to share a link substantiating the salacious claim?]
Some legal experts believed that the prosecution and court were overmatched by the magnitude of the case and by Bryant’s resources. But Hurlbert tried his best to remember that, at its core, it was a routine sexual assault case, the kind he had prosecuted before. He assigned two prosecutors to it. “We felt we had a handle on it,” he says.
But in late August 2004, just days before the trial was to begin, the woman, who declined to comment Wednesday through her attorney, informed Hurlbert that she didn’t want to testify. He understood. He asked her to think about it for a few days. During that time, he called other prosecutors for their advice on what was left of a rape case if the accuser refused to testify. The consensus: The case was over. Hurlbert technically could subpoena her, but he felt that would be amoral. He called her, but her mind was made up. He respected her decision.
On Sept. 1, 2004, he dropped the case. Bryant released a statement, apologizing to the woman and her family while admitting no guilt. The two sides reached a confidential civil settlement in March 2005. “I was disappointed that we had to dismiss the case,” Hurlbert says now. “I wish it had gone to a 12-person jury.
“But the victim was going through hell.”]
“Well, was he a rapist?”
No. Of course not. Forced sodomization minutes after meeting someone isn’t rape.
Right?
Funny how there are no replies.
Bryant admitted it and later paid her off.
It was the next day, as I recall.
What I found amazing about this case was that the press zealously guards the names of rape victims but, in this one exception, the media gleefully revealed the woman's name and repeated hearsay evidence from men she'd dated.
Laker fans worldwide weighed the interests of a rape victim versus seeing their star athlete in jail for an extended period of time and decided to attack and smear the woman with the gleeful assistance of the media that saw their own financial hit coming if Kobe didn't play. It was the most unfair thing I'd ever seen until the 2016 election.
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