Taken today.
This woman, moments after her rape last year, had to scream and cry on a public street just so the police would actually take her to the precinct - they wouldn’t because they told her what happened wasn’t a crime.
This is the excerpt from her email she sent me, before we met up:
There was one female officer, a sergeant, who responded to my 911 call that night. I truly thought, She’s a woman, maybe I can get through to her, woman-to-woman. As the police tried to escape to their cars and leave me weeping pantyless on the sidewalk, I followed her, begging with her to listen to me. I said to her something like, “Please, please help me… Imagine as a woman what this must feel like for me…”
The quote on the poster is what the female sergeant replied.
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On a different note, this is going to be the last photo until the weekend is over. This project is tough to manage, but it’s probably also tough to read as well. I think it would be good for all of us to take a couple of days to just breathe. Okay? Okay. No clicking onto the site, either. Just take some time for yourself.
xo
Grace
Rape culture. No one takes a woman’s word seriously and I’m sick of it.
This whole project is astounding.
….they told her it wasn’t a crime?!
WHAT THE FUCKI cant wrap my head aroung this at all. How can someone say that? Its making me cry.
How dare that sergeant call herself a woman.
How dare she call herself human.
This is so hard to believe actually happened because it’s so repulsive- not calling her a liar but holy shit.
This shouldn’t be so common. But it is. I’ve heard countless stories like these just from people who live locally in Melbourne, Australia. And countless more of cops doing things like, ‘asking’ rape victims if “they reeeaaaaalllllyyyy want to ruin this persons life?” by pressing charges- even with an incredibly strong case. Fuck rape culture, and fuck the police. I never went to them when I was raped, because I know this is how I would be treated, even as a little girl. >: (
