russianbear
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Good point. I shouldn't have made it personal.
Just gets a little hard after awhile, listening to the inane defense of what is not defensible.
And please. IF the video showed consensual sex it wouldn't have somehow gotten "lost." It would have been point A in Winston's defense. His get out of jail free card.
As it was, the video was deep-sixed and the DNA evidence would have been entirely destroyed, had it not been for an outside organization. The university and Tallahassee PD is neck deep in corruption and protection of criminal star athletes.
No reasonable person can look at the evidence and even slightly pretend otherwise.
And this is coming from a person that is first to defend athletes from false accusations. I'm on record defending Starks, Cogs, and to some degree Pouncey.
These aren't false accusations though. The real thing, for which normal people are behind bars for many years.
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look....I will 100% acknowledge that there was an INSANE abuse of power, and a DISGUSTING refusal to thoroughly investigate the alleged rape within the Tallahassee PD and community....but I will NOT assume a fellow man to be guilty of those allegations just because there was negligence on behalf of the police. You and your logic really takes the easy way out, assuming the guilt, and touting that any reasonable person should come to that same conclusion. Your "DNA evidence" proves nothing more than sex occurred....unless sperm can be interviewed as a witness as to how it got there.....and you're powerful conviction that the video must have been showing the rape completely ignores an endless list of other reasonable alternatives...whether it was consensual or not I'm sure his friend got scared the second the allegations got out, and destroyed the video regardless of what was on it. It is not uncommon for those accused of rape to deny being with the girl whatsoever, consensual or not, in fear that the moment he admits having sex with her, he will be seen as guilty of the rape.....additionally I highly doubt Jameis Winston would've used a video phone sex tape of him and a drunk girl as a defensive showstopper (can't really believe you were serious with that one).....but I guess those are coming from an irrational Seminole Alum such as myself.....
Again, I am not going to defend the way the police or the community in Tallahassee handled that case, but I will never be caught casting judgement, and take such personal stabs at a man's character whether I know him or not, based on a criminal investigation that never even brought about charges....unfortunately these things happen all the time, on and off college campuses, and I am sure a large number of cases have proven to be examples of criminals getting away with it, just as much as alleged victims crying wolf to protect their image from peers, family, etc....sorry in advance to the mods for letting this get so off topic....he's still a beast of a QB and going to have a good NFL career....