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oberliner

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32. Police: Teen who got pepper sprayed at Donald Trump rally in Janesville wasn't sexually assaulted

Reply to IronLionZion (Original post)

Thu Mar 31, 2016, 11:00 PM

Mar 2016

JANESVILLE -- A 15-year-old girl who was pepper sprayed outside a Donald Trump rally in Janesville earlier this week was not sexually assaulted as she originally claimed, police said Thursday.

Video showed the girl getting pepper sprayed after she claimed someone in the crowd outside the rally groped her. Police reported that information in a press conference after the rally Tuesday, calling those "point-in-time comments" that were "based upon victim statements."

However, using video, witness accounts, and interviews, investigators determined there was no sexual assault, and that the 15-year-old girl had punched a 59-year-old man in the face.

http://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/police-teen-at-donald-trump-rally-wasnt-sexually-assaulted

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Police Say Teenage Girl Was Pepper Sprayed and Sexually Assaulted at Wisconsin Trump Rally [View all] IronLionZion Mar 2016 OP

Sorry...she shoved him with a fist. I've seen two different (angle) videos on this. I think the snappyturtle Mar 2016 #1

She claims the dude grabbed her breast. IronLionZion Mar 2016 #2

I agree with you on this. I have 840high Mar 2016 #4

She should have shoved a .38 in the eye of the pervert committing the sexual battery jtuck004 Mar 2016 #13

No. She shouldn't have. And didn't. What a horrible thing to say AllyCat Mar 2016 #20

And this is the forum where you excuse sexual battery? Not in my world.Fuck him. n/t jtuck004 Mar 2016 #24

No. In fact, I have been at it with a couple of posters who ARE excusing sexual battery AllyCat Mar 2016 #25

It might have solved that one. If he thought she wasn't just an object to be pushed, but instead jtuck004 Mar 2016 #26

Yes, she should just awoke_in_2003 Mar 2016 #16

the men were wrong. period roguevalley Mar 2016 #3

She was the aggressor. 840high Mar 2016 #5

A guy grabs her breast and SHE is the aggressor? AllyCat Mar 2016 #8

Watch the video and get 840high Mar 2016 #12

The video starts after the alleged breast grabbing. yellowcanine Mar 2016 #27

Both should be arrested; she for the punch, him for the pepper spray 4139 Mar 2016 #6

Geez... 2naSalit Mar 2016 #7

Do you see her being groped in the video? 4139 Mar 2016 #10

No. I watched many times. 840high Mar 2016 #11

So if it isn't on video, it didn't happen? AllyCat Mar 2016 #17

Updated: the grope and pepper sprayed are two separate people 4139 Mar 2016 #19

Your original comment: AllyCat Mar 2016 #21

Exaggeration is a possibility 4139 Mar 2016 #28

That's been suggested in #13 AllyCat Mar 2016 #22

In case anyone missed it... 2naSalit Mar 2016 #33

They finally have the right words. At first they were saying jwirr Mar 2016 #9

Kick and R BeanMusical Mar 2016 #14

Disappointed in some of the posts here that seem to Khellendross Mar 2016 #15

Horrible, isn't it? AllyCat Mar 2016 #18

There was no sexual assault oberliner Apr 2016 #34

Some of my neighbors are really disgusting. Scuba Mar 2016 #23

Images of the sprayer and the yeller. sfwriter Mar 2016 #29

updates... sfwriter Mar 2016 #30

Looking for this man... sfwriter Mar 2016 #31

Police: Teen who got pepper sprayed at Donald Trump rally in Janesville wasn't sexually assaulted oberliner Mar 2016 #32