Thread by @DryfitVenables

Pretty damning info on the Georgia football program under Kirby Smart coming out (cliff notes to follow in thread): ajc.com/news/uga-footb…

-11 players have remained with the team after women reported violent encounters to the police, university, or both. In some cases, particularly those involving domestic violence, police filed no charges or prosecutors allowed players to plead guilty to lesser charges.

-The exact number of accusations involving Georgia players is unknown. Many cases result in no police investigation, but rather are handled through a confidential campus disciplinary system.
-the team’s permissive culture has enabled dangerous behavior by its players…

…reckless driving, street racing, drunken driving and excessive speeding, among other offenses. That behavior came under scrutiny after a high-speed car crash in January killed a football player and a member of the staff and led to criminal charges against star DL Jalen Carter

-a student who worked part time in the school’s football office went out drinking with friends… The woman soon passed out on a sofa from drinking, she later told the police. Early Friday morning, she awoke in Adam Anderson’s bed as he penetrated her without consent.

When Anderson asked a judge to release him on bond, Bryant Gantt (director of player support who gets involved when “players run afoul of the law) went to court to testify on his behalf. He called Anderson “kind of a humble young man” who had “great character.”

After Anderson’s release on bond, the accuser quit her job with the football program.

“A lot of the people I worked with were in the courtroom to support the person who abused me.” They included Gantt and 8 football players.

*I’m not going to go into the details of the Jamaal Jarrett r*pe, it’s super graphic and disturbing*…
-An Athens patrol officer arrived at the woman’s hotel a little after 11 a.m. Gantt, the football team’s director of player support, wasn’t far behind…

[Jarrett] denied forcing the woman to engage in sex acts, although he acknowledged she asked him to “take a break.” He suggested she accused him of assault only because he had been terse in text messages after he left her room and had recorded her during sex…

…“She was real stressed about the whole video thing,” he said. “If she found out the videos were deleted, she might start acting in a different way.”

The interrogation lasted about an hour. Afterward, Jarrett was free to return to his recruiting visit.

-It wasn’t until Aug. 18 that Detective Daniel Schmidt closed the case without filing charges against Jarrett.

-In his final report on the case, he said he found “no evidence of a crime” and was largely dismissive of the accuser’s account…

She uttered “a different kind of no,” Schmidt wrote, and any force used by Jarrett “sounded like this happened inadvertently in the midst of extremely enthusiastic sex/oral sex.”

“She did not at any point articulate any crime being committed against her,” Schmidt wrote… 🙄

“She never told him no or to stop, took any action to try to stop any given action, or articulate force used.”

Schmidt did not respond to a request for an interview. 🤬

Police and prosecutors often drop sexual assault cases when an accuser does not meet their preconceived notions about how victims should act, said Deborah Teurkheimer, a law professor at Northwest University and a former sex-crimes prosecutor…

“authorities expect women to fight, to verbally reject their attackers’ advances in unequivocal language, to recall every detail of a traumatic event. When they don’t, their stories tend to be discounted, while denials from men often carry unwarranted credibility.” (‼️)

“The person accused is often seen as someone who ought to be protected.”

From the beginning, Jarrett’s accuser said, her mother and her father, who is a police officer, cautioned her not to expect too much from her report of sexual assault…

“You know they’re not going to do anything about it because of who he is”

The video of Schmidt’s questioning Jarrett, hours before he spoke to the accuser, suggests criminal charges were never likely. At times the interrogation seemed more like a counseling session.

Shoutout Mark Richt 🫡 KING!

@robn_rodgers @ShameFailure @PLaw0720 This most recent news on Georgia is super concerning, as all signs point to there being cover-up plans in place with Kirby’s knowledge and a program-wide effort to keep players clean

Full details on the Jaamal Jarrett r*pe (charges were dropped by Detective Daniel Schmidt) READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION. ⚠️🤢