[TW FOR RAPE] She called 911 for help, not to become a victim.

stfuhatemongers:

thecheekylibertarian:

This is one of the most repulsive examples of police brutality and abuse of power that I have ever heard. She was sodomized and raped by a police officer sent to investigate a broken window in her home.

She was 19 and a mother of 2.

Oh my. The comments on this article. I am about to post some.
They’re so bad.

I’d like to point out this quote here from the article:

As the case headed for trial, Gina Barton of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Cates had been investigated for illegal behavior on five previous occasions, three of them involving sexual misconduct. Two of those were with prisoners. The third was with a 16 year-old…But, the law prohibited the prosecution from using Cates’s history to sway the jury. The case was still a she-said-he-said as the victim took the stand.”

So, basically, the fact that this man has already been proven a rapist isn’t something that’s allowed to be used against him on the stand. But it’s totally okay to bring up a victim’s sexual history in court to try and prove that they “weren’t really” raped.

Fuck this noise.

02/1/12