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alp227

(32,027 posts)
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 04:11 AM Feb 2016

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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Lawsuit: UT football players assaulted Drae Bowles for helping rape victim (Original Post) alp227 Feb 2016 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Feb 2016 #1
Guilt by extreme assocation? You know, my fraternity has a chapter that destroyed a hotel room Feeling the Bern Feb 2016 #2
His Super Bowl ring cannot distract from the dark side of him and Tennessee football. alp227 Feb 2016 #3
Not just Tennessee, the culture of football. AngryAmish Feb 2016 #4
Patterns of rape and sexual assault Tempest Feb 2016 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Feb 2016 #12
And he's a racist. Dont call me Shirley Feb 2016 #16
I know..... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Feb 2016 #11
This makes me physically sick. Odin2005 Feb 2016 #5
Not sure what Peyton Manning has to do with this Blue_Tires Feb 2016 #6
Peyton Manning rubbed his asshole on a female trainer while he was a student at UT. Brickbat Feb 2016 #8
"Deliberate Indifference". Sounds like an apt description of Gloria Steinem, NOW, and Feminist Akicita Feb 2016 #9
The wrongs of one group (feminists who overlook Bill Clinton's sexual depredations) -- radicalliberal Feb 2016 #10
You're right. They are both wrong. Akicita Feb 2016 #13
Thank you. radicalliberal Feb 2016 #14
"Hopefully times will change in college sports as well where predators will not be protected -- radicalliberal Feb 2016 #15
This was the subject of a failed alert. guillaumeb Feb 2016 #17
What does that mean? Akicita Feb 2016 #18
It means that someone "alerted" on your post. guillaumeb Feb 2016 #19
Thank you much. I take the 6-1 not offensive vote as evidence of my point that times have Akicita Feb 2016 #20
So now Gloria Steinem, NOW, and the Feminist Majority are being demonized here? kerry-is-my-prez Feb 2016 #21
No. It means that an alleged sex predator should not be protected by the very people who sexual Akicita Feb 2016 #22

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Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)
2. Guilt by extreme assocation? You know, my fraternity has a chapter that destroyed a hotel room
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 04:25 AM
Feb 2016

during a vacation. Maybe I did it too because I am an alum of the fraternity.

alp227

(32,027 posts)
3. His Super Bowl ring cannot distract from the dark side of him and Tennessee football.
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 04:54 AM
Feb 2016

Look up the story of Peyton Manning and the female trainer.

 

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
4. Not just Tennessee, the culture of football.
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 07:39 AM
Feb 2016

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)
7. Patterns of rape and sexual assault
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 12:20 PM
Feb 2016

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.

Response to Tempest (Reply #7)

ProudToBeBlueInRhody

(16,399 posts)
11. I know.....
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 05:21 PM
Feb 2016

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......

Akicita

(1,196 posts)
9. "Deliberate Indifference". Sounds like an apt description of Gloria Steinem, NOW, and Feminist
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 02:12 PM
Feb 2016

Majority towards the alleged sexual depredations of Bill Clinton. I didn't know they could be sued for that.

radicalliberal

(907 posts)
10. The wrongs of one group (feminists who overlook Bill Clinton's sexual depredations) --
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 05:17 PM
Feb 2016

-- 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)
13. You're right. They are both wrong.
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 05:36 PM
Feb 2016

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)
14. Thank you.
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 05:49 PM
Feb 2016


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)
15. "Hopefully times will change in college sports as well where predators will not be protected --
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 06:05 PM
Feb 2016

-- 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)
19. It means that someone "alerted" on your post.
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 12:59 PM
Feb 2016

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

(1,196 posts)
20. Thank you much. I take the 6-1 not offensive vote as evidence of my point that times have
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 01:40 PM
Feb 2016

Last edited Thu Feb 11, 2016, 02:11 PM - Edit history (1)

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)
21. So now Gloria Steinem, NOW, and the Feminist Majority are being demonized here?
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 04:40 PM
Feb 2016

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

(1,196 posts)
22. No. It means that an alleged sex predator should not be protected by the very people who sexual
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 05:56 PM
Feb 2016

Last edited Thu Feb 11, 2016, 07:27 PM - Edit history (1)

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.

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