In April 1989, New York Newsday published claims by a boyfriend of Brawley’s, Daryl Rodriguez, that she had told him the story was fabricated, with help from her mother, in order to avert the wrath of her stepfather.*

She has never made a public statement to that end, but multiple witnesses including friends, significant others and neighbors have all testified or otherwise stated that she and/or her mother confessed to them that the story was fabricated.

Considering that her only description of her attacker was “one of them muslims” and it’s been used to incite massive xenophobic violence? Of course Islamophobia factors in.

I read up on the story pretty recently, and it looks like she fabricated the allegations with the help of her mother to escape the wrath of her violent and abusive stepfather when she stayed out too late. The evidence strongly supports that version of events. Something horrible WAS happening to her, it just wasn’t…

To be fair, it came in the wake of a bunch of seemingly legitimate accusations, so I imagine she just thought “well if it’s happening to everyone else this is an easy excuse.”

This doesn’t even appear to be a response to this article.

Yes, I have. We all have. Repeatedly. Your inability to understand it doesn’t mean we haven’t done it. Read a fucking statute, dudebro.

I am not arming anyone, because once again, I’m not talking about obscenity. I have used the words “directed” and “targeted” to describe his behavior in every comment. Because the thing that’s significant here is his intent, his intent to be seen with her without her consent in order to solicit sex or achieve sexual…

You are using a whole bunch of words I’ve never used to make an argument against a point I’ve never tried to make. We’re not talking about “gross.” We’re not talking about “obscene.” We’re not even talking about when and where nudity is appropriate, or inappropriate. Or how much nudity is appropriate for what…

1) Are their free nipples being directed at you? Are they personally mailing you photos of their engorged nipples with captions like, “ur hot show me that dick”? Because if not, you’re the one who doesn’t understand. The problem isn’t and has never been the nudity itself. The problem is forcing your nudity on someone…

This is a really pathetic showing.

Did you even read my response? Like the parts where I said it wasn’t about nudity, but about the deliberate violation of her boundaries? You’re arguing against a fucking straw man that you made up. No one is talking about obscenity. We’re talking about being sexually predatory.

Consent. Consent. Consent. Consent. The difference is consent. How many times do people have to tell you this? Pointedly sending a non-consenting stranger a sexually aggressive photo is not in the same league as posting a semi-clothed photo of yourself on your personal instagram page, regardless of whether or not…

Have you actually looked at the evidence and court records outside of the TV show? The case against him is really strong, and I say this as someone who works in habeas advocacy for the wrongfully convicted. There are things I’d challenge as his attorney (which I’m not), but even if you tossed all of those things, I…

ACTUALLY. The police ran a plate search for her car before the car was officially discovered, suggesting that it was seen being driven around. And the car had been moved recently when they found it. And when Adnan was arrested, BPD reported that the police had found the car weeks earlier. And Jay said he walked by it…

Not hard to believe that Jay’s testimony was made up if you have any sense of what the Baltimore PD does. Just look at the Norfolk Four case. Justice in the midatlantic is a mess.

I mean, he should go to jail because he’s a psychopath who terrorized his fiance and several other women, some of which was proven in court and remains proven in court.

That does seem like the sort of thing I’d be comfortable making illegal.

Obviously you did if you felt the need to post and argue about it with the literally every other commenter, all of whom read it the way I did and thought you were being an asshole.

You made the claim, providing proof is your responsibility.