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Cops Say Uber Driver Saved Passenger, 16, from Sex Trafficking: ‘I Knew What Was Happening’
Yahoo ^ | Dec. 30, 2016 | skhelling

Posted on 12/30/2016 6:13:22 PM PST by Leaning Right

It started out like any other Uber transaction.

Keith Avila, a photographer who also drives for the ridesharing company, picked up two women and a girl at a home in Sacramento, California. As they got into the car, Avila noticed the girl looked young. *snip*

“I was 100 percent sure I knew what was happening,” Avila tells PEOPLE. “It wasn’t 99.999 percent. It was 100 percent. And I knew I had to do something, but I didn’t know exactly how I was going to do it. I wondered if I should take pictures with my phone.”

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; rescue; sextrafficking; sexworker; uber
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Here's a story about someone who chose not to look away, but to do something. In other words, a story about a mensch.
1 posted on 12/30/2016 6:13:22 PM PST by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

“I was 100 percent sure I knew what was happening,”

Well, with the quotes in article, I’d say everyone in the world would know.


2 posted on 12/30/2016 6:17:08 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Leaning Right

What?!! A California guy interfered with this “pre-woman’s” free choices?! I hope N.O.W. is on top of this!


3 posted on 12/30/2016 6:17:46 PM PST by Az Joe (11-8-2016-----We're still here President Reagan!!)
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To: Leaning Right

Similar to the story in “Taxi Driver”, except it was Uber and there wasn’t the violent bloodbath when DeNiro rescued Jodie Foster.

Life imitating art, sort of.


4 posted on 12/30/2016 6:19:56 PM PST by I_Like_Spam
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To: Leaning Right

HOORAY Keith Avila


5 posted on 12/30/2016 6:20:00 PM PST by PGalt (CONGRATULATIONS Donald J. Trump)
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To: Leaning Right

Keith Avila’s a true hero.


6 posted on 12/30/2016 6:20:48 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Leaning Right

He is a FB friend of mine. Proud to say.


7 posted on 12/30/2016 6:22:50 PM PST by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: Leaning Right

12 year old dressed like hooker

Older women coaching her about getting money how to look for weapons and how to hug client

going to a hotel

Another women making sure law enforcement isn’t present

YEAH - I’d say that’s a pretty good “hunch” of what’s happening.


8 posted on 12/30/2016 6:24:10 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Leaning Right

Clearly he doesn’t work for ACORN or Planned Parenthood.

They’ve been conned by undercover filmmakers pretending to be pimps and human traffickers with a nod and a wink approving of their business.


9 posted on 12/30/2016 6:24:23 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Leaning Right

There’s been some misleading articles about CA changing the law so girls like this 16yo aren’t considered criminals but victims. This is exactly why.

This guy is a hero.


10 posted on 12/30/2016 6:24:41 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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Washington Post and NBC would say that is a conspiracy theory and an unproven allegation...


11 posted on 12/30/2016 6:25:14 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Leaning Right

Good for him.


12 posted on 12/30/2016 6:26:59 PM PST by BipolarBob (I thought money was burning a hole in my pocket but it was just my Samsung Galaxy 7.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Washington Post and NBC would say that is a conspiracy theory and an unproven allegation...

WaPo and NBC would instead point out it is now perfectly legal behavior in California.

13 posted on 12/30/2016 6:28:03 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Leaning Right

Disney Vang?


14 posted on 12/30/2016 6:29:21 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Hugin

Hope the driver is never charged for his involvement in delivering them to the hotel.

If it were a robbery or a drive-by shooting, he’d be considered a co-conspirator. It is not uncommon for the driver in such cases to face stricter sentencing than the shooting/robber (when they plea bargain in exchange for testify against the others).


15 posted on 12/30/2016 6:31:45 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Az Joe
Call them by their proper name: The National Association of Gals (N.A.G.). They LOVE that! 😎
16 posted on 12/30/2016 6:37:38 PM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: a fool in paradise
Clearly he doesn’t work for ACORN or Planned Parenthood.

Project Veritas brought an undercover woman posing as an underage girl to a PP clinic and told them she worked in the sex industry, but she was underage and needed an abortion. They were more than willing to help her get one without asking questions.

It tells you a lot when you read how open these women were about what they were doing -- they thought nothing of it, didn't think it was risky to talk openly about it in front of the driver.

Part of the liberal culture of California, where prostitution, though illegal, is viewed as another "lifestyle choice" and these women are just mentors for a girl going into the business.

17 posted on 12/30/2016 6:38:00 PM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, every Democrat is a communist.)
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To: I_Like_Spam

I always thought Sublime’s “The Wrong Way” was a music version of Taxi Driver.


18 posted on 12/30/2016 6:42:44 PM PST by Rastus
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To: a fool in paradise
He's an Uber driver, it's like a taxi driver. If you are dumb enough to take a taxi to rob a bank they aren't going to charge the taxi driver.

Also, and this is key, he's the one who called the cops. The article says the cops thanked him for alerting them.

Given this I really don't understand your comment at all.

19 posted on 12/30/2016 6:44:30 PM PST by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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To: Leaning Right

Because diversity!!!

Criminals whose upbringing included this way of life as a means of making money are being forced upon Americns who will pay for them to be here.


20 posted on 12/30/2016 6:46:44 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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