University of Minnesota Football Team Will Play Bowl Game - Sexual Assault Case

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12. Well, there is a video...

According to police records released Wednesday, the woman told police she was drunk when she was sexually assaulted in Djam's apartment by several men, including some of the suspended players. She said her sexual contact with two men may have been consensual, but her contact with four of them was not. Several players told police it was consensual.

One investigator watched a video Djam took of the incident.

"She appears lucid, alert, somewhat playful, and fully conscious; she does not appear to be objecting to anything at this time. ... (She) sounds as though she is somewhat intoxicated, but is not slurring her words and is certainly conscious and aware of what is going on," he wrote. "She does not appear to be upset by the sexual activity and does not indicate that she wants it to stop ... and the sexual contact appears entirely consensual."

Buford Sr., a Detroit police officer who serves as security director to the city's mayor, said he has seen the EOAA report and that it appeared the office concluded the players were guilty, in contrast with police and prosecutors who found insufficient evidence to press charges and the judge who lifted the restraining order. He said the players who were not suspended earlier were accused of being in the apartment that night.

"Somehow this EEOA has come up with something different. ... It's beyond me. It just reeks to the high heavens," Buford Sr. said.

http://collegefootball.ap.org/article/10-suspended-minnesota-players-wont-play-holiday-bowl

Maybe they concluded that it was "g. Coerced sexual intercourse. " from the list above. That's probably vague enough that it will fly as a Title iX offense as judged by the University's Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action.

Since the offense occurred at the beginning of September, why did they do this just before the last game on Dec 27? Why not wait and suspend the players after the game?