Lawsuit: UT football players assaulted Drae Bowles for helping rape victim
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel
A federal lawsuit alleges that Tennessee football players twice assaulted wide receiver Drae Bowles for assisting the woman who accused linebacker A.J. Johnson and defensive back Michael Williams of rape in November of 2014.
The lawsuit, filed in Nashville on Tuesday by six unnamed UT female students including five alleged rape victims, charges that the University of Tennessee violated Title IX and other federal laws by "deliberately indifferent" actions before and after the alleged rapes. Four of the rapes in question, including the case involving Johnson and Williams, were allegedly committed by Tennessee athletes.
The lawsuit also charges that UT created a "hostile sexual environment" through deliberate indifference, and that UT officials, including chancellor Jimmy Cheek, athletic director Dave Hart and UT football coach Butch Jones, failed to address that environment.
Williams and Johnson, who were immediately suspended when they were accused, were both eventually charged with rape and are facing separate trials in June and July, respectively. Bowles, who transferred to Chattanooga after the 2014 season, has received a subpoena to testify.
Read more: http://www.knoxnews.com/sports/vols/football/lawsuit-ut-football-players-assaulted-drae-bowles-for-helping-rape-victim-2b605b1c-9e5f-56e5-e053-01-368262521.html
Peyton Manning's alma mater.
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Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)during a vacation. Maybe I did it too because I am an alum of the fraternity.
alp227
(32,027 posts)Look up the story of Peyton Manning and the female trainer.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Most football scholarship athletes have no business on their respective college campuses. Look at the test scores of accepted football players v the rest of the freshmen.
So they allow these huge, high testosterone men on campus. Then not only fail to discipline them, they actively suppress their crimes, most importantly rape.
Higher education is crooked and hates women.
Tempest
(14,591 posts)This isn't the only case against Tennessee by any stretch of the imagination. This case alone has 6 victims.
Manning's accuser was given a settlement so it wouldn't go to trial. The settlement included an apology from Manning for his sexual assault on a university employee.
There have been 75 reported cases of sexual assaults at UT in the last 4 years.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local/ut-releases-four-years-worth-of-data-on-sex-assaults-ep-955762595-353530211.html
So you see, Manning represents the pattern of rape and sexual assaults at UT.
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Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)If you can simply dig up shit that went on at Harvard, you can just follow up with "Obama's alma mater" and we have a new Republican committee forming......
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and I actually hate the Mannings...
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Akicita
(1,196 posts)Majority towards the alleged sexual depredations of Bill Clinton. I didn't know they could be sued for that.
radicalliberal
(907 posts)-- don't make the wrongs of another group (those who promote the rape culture in football) right. They're both wrong.
But your comment about said feminists is well taken. (By the way, I'm not an MRA.)
Akicita
(1,196 posts)Times are changing for feminists. The younger feminist generation will no longer put up with or protect predators of their own ideology.
Hopefully times will change in college sports as well where predators will not be protected because they are on the football team.
radicalliberal
(907 posts)It's nice to have a civil discussion without someone getting riled up and making a personal attack, which is precisely what I've come to expect in any Internet forum.
radicalliberal
(907 posts)-- because they are on the football team."
I hate to say this, but I seriously doubt this will ever become the norm. There are individual coaches who do take a hard line against the rape culture, but they don't seem to be in the majority. Frankly, many of the hardcore fans (as opposed to those who simply enjoy the game as a form of entertainment) have no empathy for rape victims whose perpetrators happen to be football players. Amazingly enough, this includes fans who are liberal or "progressive." They're more concerned about the image of a player or the team having a winning season. (For example, Glen Ridge, New Jersey; Penn State; Steubenville, Ohio; Maryville, Missouri -- not to mention many other scandals.) The worst enemies of school sports are not "sports haters" or people who are simply critical of the culture. No, they're to be found among the fans.
Now the real world beckons me.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Akicita
(1,196 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Someone felt that your post was offensive, or insensitive, and alerted the administrators about the post. A jury of 7 people is assembled and asked to vote on your post. There was only one vote to hide your post.
I personally found nothing objectionable about your post.
Hope this helps.
Akicita
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changed. The new generation of feminists will not protect sexual predators for ideological purposes. At least not in the USA. Europe still seems to be having problems. I bet if I had made that post in 1999 it would have been deemed offensive.
All women should be protected from sexual predators and ALL sexual violence victims deserve justice.
kerry-is-my-prez
(8,133 posts)As a feminist back in the 60's and 70's I really don't appreciate that. Are you suggesting that we should have supported and voted for Bush and Dole instead of Clinton too? You probably weren't around back then, but the Republicans were using this to try to put feminists on the spot.
Akicita
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abuse victims look to for support. Yes, I was around back then. In fact, during that time a close loved one of mine was brutally raped. She never really recovered and the scumbag was never caught or punished. So it absolutely infuriated me that the victims of serious accusations of sex abuse were treated with DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE by many prominent feminists of the day. As you can probably tell, I am still infuriated. Feminists used the ostrich technique of sticking their heads in the sand while the Clinton Machine, yes that includes "We must destroy her story" Hillary, used the most despicable tactics to destroy the accusers and their stories.
Several women accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault. Even in the consensual case with Lewinsky, of all the unpaid interns working in the White House, the only one who was given a cush paid position was the one who gave the powerful boss blowjobs. Isn't that the definition of a sexually hostile work environment? Feminist reaction: One prominent feminist volunteered to give Bill a blowjob if it would help protect the right to abortions.
Can you imagine, in the present day, if Bill Cosby's accusers were thrown under the bus by a prominent feminist who said "Bill is such a pioneer as a black comedian that I would be honored to be drugged and fucked by him while I am unconscious". Can you imagine modern day feminists putting up with the trashing Clinton's victims got. Called stalkers, made fun of for their "big hair", "If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park who knows what you'll get" and many more.
Either you are against sexual abuse of women or you're not. It is NOT "I am 100% against the sexual abuse of women, unless the perpetrator is my friend, my neighbor, my hair dresser, my favorite movie star, or my favorite politician".
Shame on many of the feminists of that time. And I guess that means shame on you.
I suggest you do some soul searching.