So the DA has to reassure passengers who witnessed a woman being raped on a train that they won't be prosecuted for something that's not even a crime because the police whipped everyone into a frenzy where they're probably terrified of vigilante attacks. cnn.com/2021/10/21/us/…
How the police *do not* help solve sexual assault cases. By discouraging witnesses from coming forward.
Also, I really hate the way media are still not accurately reporting this story - the headline makes it sound like the DA has decided not to prosecute bystanders that they could and maybe should prosecute, when that's not the case at all.
These tweets may not make complete sense if you don't know the back story. This is an excellent thread.
https://twitter.com/leximcmenamin/status/1451297416494424064?s=20
My first tweet should have said "may have witnessed" because the entire point is it is not even clear that people did witness anything, certainly not the entire incident, and probably did not fully understood what they saw. Contrary to the now debunked police narrative.
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