Dear friends: We continue the celebration of International Women’s Day today on filmmaker Tracy Schott’s weekly show https://t.co/RzKGHpXHwh — 1pm EST https://t.co/ldVnWdk7WD Today’s guest: Kelsey McKay, CEO of RESPOND Against Violence.
@chitovela3 @KUT Margaret Moore called (and recorded the conversation on her cell phone) the mother of a child sexual abuse victim “crazy” multiple times on the record when speaking to Nadia and when KUT did an ORR the DA denied it and the AG upheld that.
Listen to Part I in my four-part series on why sexual assaults are so hard to prosecute in Austin. We start today with survivor Marina Garrett who was sexually assaulted in 2015. She tells me "the rape itself was trauma but what happened afterward was also a trauma."
Plano City Council Members have proposed cutting funding for @TurningPointRCC's counseling program because—wait for it—the forensic exam clinic separately offers emergency contraception.
This is a slap in the face to survivors. Don't let it slide.
DA Resigns From Sex Assault Task Force After @Newsy Questions. We have obtained a handwritten letter where Texas DA begged her former boss, early in her career, to let her out of prosecuting Special Crimes “cases” which she had no interest in. https://t.co/LUYJJoMzaG
On Wednesday, a 21 y/o white man made 5 women lay down on the floor of a bank and shot them execution style.
Today, a 21 y/o white man shot and killed 5 people in what one officer called, “the worst domestic violence incident [he’d] seen.”
But do go on about a razor commercial.
The @ALTERforATX resolution has unanimously passed- ordering the city of Austin to hire a third party examiner to look into nearly 2,000 police rape investigations over seven years. It’s poised to be one of deepest reviews of police handling of rape cases ever @Newsy#casecleared