?- is there a woman here at DU who has not experienced sexual violence?

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128. not me either

it was in the mid 80's I did fight back there were 3 assailants, I was walking home from a bus stop a short distance from my house, the worst part of this actually was the cops who when I called them (right after I got home) were sympathetic, they were a female with a younger male partner , but then my husband entered the room and that all changed as you see I and my assailants are White, my husband is Black the female cop looked at my husband, elbowed her partner with this get a load of that look, the next question out of her mouth was - was my REAL problem that they had refused to pay or what? needless to say things went down hill from there

a few years after that I was reading City Pages a local publication, there was an article about a female cop who was telling all about being a women on the Mpls police department, I instantly recognized her as the cop who had been my home she said that when she was first on the squad she was partnered with a Black copand rumors about them having a sexual relationship were flying around so she changed her partner and 'did things' to prove them wrong and that she may have mishandled cases in order to protect her 'honor', ya I guess she did at that