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Victims’ statements should be believed

by Kyla Dowling, Staff Writer   CW: Discussion of sexual assault, rape, policy brutality.   In 2019, I sat in a room at the police station and told an officer about my sexual assault. “Why didn’t you report this sooner?” he asked me. I said I was scared. He asked me why. When I couldn’t get the words out, he raised his eyebrows and moved onto another question. I knew, in that moment, that although I was a victim of a crime, I didn’t stand a chance when it came to having that fact recognized. But I should have.  Rape…

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