Will Media Report Alleged Rape At Occupy Cleveland Rally?
A 19-year-old student with a learning disability was allegedly raped at this weekend's Occupy Cleveland rally, an extension of the protests happening on Wall Street.
WKYC, the local NBC affiliate, reported at its website Tuesday (video also follows with commentary):
Police are investigating the claim of a 19-year-old Cleveland woman that she was raped in a tent Saturday at "Occupy Cleveland."
The woman attends Summit Academy in Parma, a school for young people with educational abilities [sic] like Attention Deficit Disorder, Autism and hyperactvity.
She described what allegedly happened to her to a teacher, which led to a police report being made Monday.
The school declined comment on the student or incident and referred questions to a spokesman for the group that owns the school.
The girl alleges that she was at Occupy Cleveland Saturday night. She claims "rally personnel" told her to share a tent with the suspect, due to a shortage of tents.
The suspect allegedly said his name was "Leland." She claims she went to sleep and awoke to find "Leland " molesting her.
A rape kit was taken and an examination was performed at MetroHhealth Medical Center's Emergency Room.
At this point in time, this is only an allegation with no arrests made, which could explain why according to LexisNexis and Google news searches, the matter has not been reported by any major news outlet outside of Ohio with the exception of numerous blogs.
However, imagine for a moment something like this happened at a Tea Party event. Would the media be so quiet?
Consider what occurred in March 2010 when members of the Congressional Black Caucus claimed they were spat on and received racial epithets from Tea Partiers on Capitol Hill protesting the pending vote on ObamaCare. These allegations filled the air and print waves for months and continue to be.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recently brought the matter up during an interview with ABC News's Christiane Amanpour on the October 9 installment of "This Week."
Google searches identify millions of reports concerning these allegations which have yet to be substantiated in any way.
Conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart offered at the time to donate $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund if anyone could prove the N-word was hurled at black members of Congress that day.
Over a year and a half later, no one has come forward with such evidence.
No one.
Yet the Left and their media minions continue to advance what are still totally unsubstantiated allegations against the Tea Party.
With this in mind, will an alleged rape now in the hands of the Cleveland Police Department occurring at an Occupy event last weekend get any coverage by press members deeply in love with this movement?
Stay tuned.
(H/T @DanRiehl)
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I posted somewhere else this
Submitted by Van Halen on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 8:23am.
I posted somewhere else this very answer - the media will go into overdrive to cover this up and if by some miracle this story gets out, that girl will wish she were dead when the media are done tearing her apart for having the audacity to admit there are horrific problems at OWS.
Let's ask Whoopi
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 8:37am.
I don't know, maybe it wasn't "rape" rape.
Is this the United States or
Submitted by jessieH on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 9:10am.
Is this the United States or Lybia? Hard to tell with this group of protestors.
You can be sure that this is
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 9:17am.
You can be sure that this is not the only thing the national media outlets will not report. It has been reported locally here in Minneapolis that the occupation is costing the city of Minneapolis over a quarter million a day. The number of protestors is relatively small here. I can't imagine what it is costing the cities where the numbers are high.
This alleged rape is terrible. Would not be surprised if it really happened, but hope it is false. Liberals are not known to be the most upstanding moral people.
Trailor trash
Submitted by averageschmoe on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 9:32am.
Let James Carville handle it. He will find out that the woman lives in a trailor and will call her trailor trash it will be over. Either that or they will find out that this woman has a distant relative that is a tea party member and then the story will break, "tea party family involved in rape at Occupy rally".
Leland from Cleveland, huh?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 9:38am.
Hmm. There was a similar case in New York involving a guy named Bjork.
It depends...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 9:43am.
It depends on what kind of rape it is! It might have been consenual or else "sting" rape. After all, just what is rape? I'm just trying to channel Bill Clinton here!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Oh, no! WE protestors would never break a law!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 9:56am.
Notice the 'African-American' fellow already, ALREADY, blaming the victim and saying it was a setup!
he's just trying
Submitted by misterbee241 on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 10:28am.
to channel Marion Berry.
Kinda makes you wonder....
Submitted by texasborngranny on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 11:05am.
If the media is NOT reporting this, what else are the covering up?
NOT reporting
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 11:11am.
Like perhaps one of the biggest problems that even the event organizers are having is the amount of theft at these events.
or what the camps aren't reporting
Submitted by kata on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 11:24am.
Two weeks ago the OWS Seattle camp was holding serious discussions about whether to report problems. The proposal was to never, ever call the police and handle anything that happened on their own. Fortunately the majority did not agree. A serial flasher and a guy with an assault rifle were arrested at the "occupation" just this week.
The media is ignoring the
Submitted by Pinetree3 on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 11:11am.
The media is ignoring the anti-Semitism at the rallys. Why in the world would they care if a girl with a learning disability is raped at a rally?
Of course these libtards will
Submitted by poseA on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 11:54am.
Of course these libtards will blame the victim and minimize the severity of the offense.
It was redistribution of sex.
Submitted by shirtsbyeric on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 1:10pm.
It was redistribution of sex.
Leland is the victim
Submitted by Dave81 on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 3:33pm.
They'll probably either claim she's a conservative plant or that it was consentual. Either way, Leland is the real victim here.
Alleged rape
Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 5:35pm.
"At this point in time, this is only an allegation with no arrests made, which could explain why according to LexisNexis and Google news searches, the matter has not been reported by any major news outlet outside of Ohio with the exception of numerous blogs."
I don't accept that explanation, Noel. I do remember how the National media immediately jumped on the alleged rape of a Black Woman by a supposedly Rich, White College Lacrosse team. There wasn't any hesitation on that at all. This is just another example of "let's promote a story that fits the rhetoric, but avoid those that do not." After all, these are supposed to be peaceful, benign demonstrations, are they not?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
This is obviously our fault
Submitted by cocodrie on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 8:42pm.
Plugs Biteme told a Human Events reporter "Don't screw around with me" after being caught in a lie about saying if the republicans don't pass the democrat agenda we will be the cause of a rise in murder, rape and all crimes.
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Of course these libtards will
Submitted by bagtree on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 4:07am.
Of course these libtards will blame the victim and minimize the severity of the offense.
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