Posted on 05/08/2019 2:35:15 AM PDT by TigerClaws
A year ago, in Seattle, a man living in a city-funded homeless encampment raped a woman in the bathroom of a Volkswagen dealership in the city’s Ballard neighborhood. Christopher Teel had arrived from Texas as a transient and was evading multiple warrants, but the city-sanctioned encampment welcomed him without conducting a criminal-background check.
The story caused a sensation, with wide media coverage and public demands for increased security measures, but the crime victim remained silent and her identity was kept secret. Nearly a year later, the victim, Lindsey, contacted me. After being raped, she had approached city leaders and met with the sitting councilman for nearly an hour but was received, she says, with dismissiveness. Teel’s crime against her did not fit the preferred narrative of compassion for the homeless, so the political class downplayed it. By the time Lindsey reached out to me, she was ready to speak out.
Lindsey asked me to create a short documentary so that she could tell her story in her own words. I’ve worked for more than a decade as a documentary filmmaker, but my interview with Lindsey was one of the most wrenching I’ve ever done. She walked me through the details of the attack and her deep frustrations with the political leadership that created the conditions for the crime to occur and then resisted making changes even after her story broke.
We edited the film together and posted it to Facebook on April 22. That evening, it was the lead story on all four local Seattle news networks and had reached more than 35,000 people on social media. The public renewed its call for warrant checks at city-sanctioned encampments. Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan condemned the assault and commended “the courage of a survivor of sexual violence to speak out.”
Then came the backlash. Progressive activists launched a counterattack against Lindsey on social media. Local journalist Erica Barnett claimed that the story drew attention because Lindsey is an “attractive blonde woman” and dismissed the victim’s “many tears” as theatrics serving a false narrative that the homeless represent a danger to the community. She demanded that the media temper its reporting and be mindful that “graphic descriptions of violent rape may be triggering for survivors.” Barnett’s message was amplified on left-wing Twitter; Councilwoman Lorena Gonzalez claimed that Lindsey’s story would create fear and cause harm to communities “that may already be triggered.”
The reality: city-sanctioned encampments in Seattle have become magnets for crime and violence. According to the Seattle Times, when the city opened a low-barrier encampment in Licton Springs, the police recorded a 221 percent increase in reported crimes and public disturbances. Neighbors witnessed a dramatic rise in property destruction, violence, prostitution, and drug dealing in the area. According to King County Jail statistics, homeless individuals are 38 times more likely to commit crimes than the average citizen (the homeless represented 0.5 percent of the population but 19 percent of jail bookings last year).
Seattle’s activist class seems, then, to have more compassion for transient criminals than for the victims of their crimes. Lindsey’s story should be a clarion call for everyone who cares about violence against women. But in the tortured logic of intersectionality, the story of a homeless rapist demands “context,” while the white, blonde, middle-class target of his assault is an unsympathetic victim. Lindsey’s story reveals a fault line opening between elite opinion and public opinion. Most private citizens praised Lindsey as a heroic survivor and echoed her call for greater safety at homeless encampments. They should reflect on the likelihood that their leaders’ contempt for her extends to them, too. The more Seattleites who come to that conclusion, the more likely we are to see change.
This deserves national attention.
The only solution is for white, blonde, middle-class people to direct their money and activities away from the city of Seattle, as there is no chance of voting these scum out of office.
they stand for NOTHING at all except gaining their power....
so a woman gets violently raped, or a young woman loses a college scholarship because some boy claiming to be a girl wins the championship, or sexually aggressive candidates get the blessing, its all good for "them"....
we can not embarrass them because they can not be embarrassed....or shamed........
Yeah I’ve had it.
Amazon has a new documentary out about lorena bobbit, or whatever her name is.
IT DEFENDS HER. SHE CUT THE GUY’S #### OFF!!!
But she was raped by him MAYBE and abused by him MAYBE
And the “male dominated press” humiliated her etc.
BUT SHE CUT HIS #### OFF!!!
So I couldn’t take anymore.
I just cancelled Amazon even though I am a B and Independent horror movie junkie and they had tons so if anyone can suggest another site for those movies, please do.
500 song on amazon prime gone. My 2 day delivery gone. Amazon Pantry gone.
And you know what.
I feel better than I have in a LONG TIME.
Some humans, like me, TOO OFTEN FORGET that the best things in life usually come from the head or the heart.
Like being able to live with yourself.
That one is PRICELESS.
Article is from one year ago, May 16, 2018, not 2019. See link below:
https://komonews.com/news/local/homeless-man-arrested-for-raping-woman-in-ballard
Woman accuses anyone on narrative: women don’t lie.
Woman accuses anyone off narrative: what?
Woman accuses a powerful Democrat: attack her.
I was watching a documentary of Seattle recently, and it was at a town hall meeting where people were railing against the mayor for the incredibly disastrous setting that has become commonplace in that there are homeless junkies living in any space they can find around Seattle.
And the government is not doing anything about it, and the police have their hands tied concerning taking any kind of action against it.
As the citizens got up to the microphone and started voicing their complete concern and disgust with the way the government of Seattle is handling this crisis, the mayor sat there and looked right and left at his cohorts and was snickering.
The mayor of Seattle has no intention of doing anything about anything. It was disgusting, and the citizens of Seattle need to take some action against this cabal of leftism that is leaving them in a serious predicament.
“The city-sanctioned encampment”?
the left not caring about women and using them only as cannon fodder has been their MO. They have for decades dangled women like prizes to attract men into their perverted ranks and used women as cannon fodder in whatever cause they are promoting at any given moment. The so-called “feminist” movement has gone along with this.
:: Local journalist Erica Barnett claimed that the story drew attention because Lindsey is an “attractive blonde woman” ::
Instant reason to issue a Carry permit to all young, blonde, white women in Seattle.
https://www.facebook.com/rufodox/videos/ballard-rape-survivor-speaks-out/265879487700680/
Lindsey-rape survivor tells her story.
> if anyone can suggest another site for those movies, please do.
I sense a man taking his first steps to becoming an anime convert. It’s the only place in modern media you can find anything fresh and interesting anymore.
Even though I haven’t watched an substantial amount of TV in over 20 years, if someone turns on a program I can still predict in minutes how it’s going to turn out.
When you’re as bored as I got with that phenomenon, let me know and I’ll point you to some animes worth your time.
Point away.
I watched 5 minutes of Anime to make a few books once as part of a survey. It was pretty good.
and Yes I am BORED OF EVERYTHING!!!!!!!
My dopamine levels barely rise to normal anymore watching even a GOOD horror/action film.
If you want to be impressed right away... Attack on Titan is a good choice. If you have patience to watch a story develop before it really kicks in, then Steins;Gate would be my top recommendation. Check ‘em out, if you like them I can point to many more.
Thank you. Attack on Titan, at least season 1, is free on amazon Prime, which I have until May 27th, so I shall venture into it.
I have noted Steins Gate in my things to do spreadsheet :)
According to the court records, she cut it off because when they had sex, he always climaxed first.
lol
Please have readers reference and watch a great, but disturbing documentary produced by KOMO Seattle, called “Seattle is Dying”. The BEST description of the problem, and most importantly, how to solve it. Which is, unfortunately, being absolutely rejected by Seattle politicians.
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