Jerry: No. It isn’t and the most distressing part of it is, not that she went out with him but that HE stopped seeing her. Do you understand? He, Newman; Newman stopped seeing her. Newman never stopped seeing anybody. Newman will see whoever is willing to see him. Not so much why she did see him as disturbing as that…

My take is that there’s already an existing narrative that the victims are liars, deserved it, or both. Instead of adding any sort of valuable insight into who Holtzclaw is, the piece adds to that narrative without any evidence beyond witness statements. Also, problematically, it adds to this idea that if someone is…