Columbia University Student Will Drag Her Mattress Around Campus Until Her Rapist Is Gone

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40. She characterizes her experience with the NYPD as "awful"

"After the New York Times article I had received so much criticism from people online that said, ‘Girls are dumb, this is exactly why girls should go to the police the minute they’re assaulted.’ I wanted to see if they were correct," Sulkowicz says. She characterizes her experience with the NYPD as "awful," and says she is in the process of filing a formal complaint with the city. "The officer basically treated me as if I was the criminal," she said. "After you've been physically violated the last thing you want is to have a policeman who is high on his own power telling you that everything you've just experienced is invalid." Sulkowicz says the assistant district attorney has contacted her about beginning an investigation, and she has been told police are currently looking for her alleged rapist, who she says is out of the country."