DrDawkinstein

Love to hear good stuff about our team and organization. Very nice of him to say. The cynic in me reads this as "pleeeease give me a job" tho. But hey, if he wants to come in cheap he has to be better than the guys currently at the bottom of our list.

I dont remember all the details/timing exactly, but I think this is different from the previous situation in that all the investigations were completed and cleared this time around. I'm sure Beane, the Bills Legal department, etc could see a civil suit coming. But as long as all the criminal investigations were done and clear, that's about as good as they can get. Previous, I believe MA told the Bills it was all done and nothing was going to come of it, only to find the investigations weren't complete and stuff was still lingering and popped back up (which was a surprise to the Bills), and some of the details were new info to the Bills as well. IIRC. There was definitely more that the Bills were directly peeved with the player about.

Yeah, its in the docs and transcripts. I'm not going to re-litigate it here because Im already walking the line of what mods will remove in this thread. But the info is out there. It's just an example.

Im surprised we've managed to keep it to just this thread for so long. Usually we have a number of spawns at the same time on the Cook issue. We need 5 more Cook threads on the front page asap!

Save your hope. Absolutely not worried about it. At all. And neither should you. As @boyst pointed out, 1/3rd of all women will be sexually assaulted at some point in their life. On the flip side, of the small subset of men even accused of rape, only 2-5% are deemed falsely accused. So 33% of all women vs... what... 0.001% of all men. You're on the wrong side of the problem. And even if you count situations like Araiza's as being "falsely accused", dude still knowingly gave the girl an STI. Scumbags be scumbagging. Raise better boys.

Could stop right there for a lot of these guys. I sure hope none of them have daughters either.

I dont see any (or many) folks condemning or passing judgement on Hairston here. Certainly no one saying he should be cut or in jail. I see waaayyy more people calling the girl all sorts of names and going after her character, wanting her to be counter-sued, etc. No one waiting for any substantiation on that. And given what we've just seen in the Diddy trial, where he was acquitted on most charges EVEN WITH multiple witnesses, piles of physical evidence, video tape, etc... it just shows how almost impossible stuff like this is to convict. Perfect and timely example of how difficult it is for victims of this sort of stuff to ever get justice.

We have 2 ebikes, a family bike that can carry the kid and some cargo and a single rider, small capacity bike (usually for me). The family bike is just "pedal assist" and gets you up to 20mph pretty quickly, but that's where the assist tops out so you'd have to be going downhill to go faster. The single is a Class II and has a throttle and goes up to 28mph. They are definitely way more bike than motorcycle. I get the craze because these things are great for the family to get around the city, and helps us 40-somethings relive our youthful days of the 90s. But what gets me is the amount of families I see riding these things with NO HELMETS. I'm a cusp GenXer and grew up before the helmet craze so never wore one growing up, and wasnt a huge fan of the idea going into it. But now, with so much to lose, and how dangerous it can be out on the streets with drivers... It blows my mind that people arent wearing them. I saw a family go by the other day, mom and 2 kids on back, zero helmets... I dont see people getting too crazy on them since we have pretty decent bike infrastructure in the city (Atlanta). Bike lanes almost everywhere we want to go, etc. But folks, WEAR A HELMET. As for kids riding the ebikes or electric scooters, no one under 16 should be operating these things on their own. It's more dangerous than being in a car.

It is NOT suspect. He literally had nothing before this so there was no point in a civil lawsuit until now. The bigger timing tip-off is how she went to the police IMMEDIATELY. Even now that they can, I'd be surprised if they did since there were no criminal charges.

In some cases, yes. In others, where the lady isnt able to fight back as much, no. Or some victims are afraid to fight back so they dont end up beaten or killed. There's no way to draw conclusions just from how much they fought back.

Same age bro!

Most DAs only prosecute slam-dunk wins. Cases that are pretty much already solved and guaranteed. They dont want to hurt their win/loss record or be seen as "wasting the taxpayer money", or even worse in small college towns, hurting the beloved football team. Rapes/SAs of this nature, which are basically only "he said, she said" almost never go since the DA cant prove beyond a reasonable doubt what happened. It isnt worth going to trial with such little evidence. Unfortunately. Again, I'm not making any judgements on this situation either way. Just pointing out that we dont (and never will) have enough information to make a true call. Just because no charges were pressed does not mean he is completely innocent and she is a gold digger. Just like I'm not calling for Hairston to be cut from the team or sent to jail. We dont know. We wont know. So we're all better off saving the conclusions on either side.

3 parties with incentives to not prosecute even if he is guilty.

Need more of this, at practice, and apparently on this board...

Given the general police track record all across this country of not believing victims, not properly investigating, and not processing rape kits, I'm not sure how much stock I put into "no charges so therefore completely innocent". And most of that is on regular civilian rapes. When a top athlete in a small college town is involved, they're even more incentivized to sweep it under the rug. That is what hurt Araiza. SDSU and the local police originally swept the whole thing under the rug because SDSU was about to get a bid to join the PAC-12, and they didnt want to hurt the chances with a scandal. So they just ignored her claims. Had they properly investigated it at the time, they could have cleared Araiza and then it all goes away. Sounds like more was done here in the Hairston case, which is good. And most of the stuff is public record now so easier to make a determination. But in general, "the cops didnt press charges" doesnt mean much when it comes to star athlete assaults.