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April 13, 2006
This Wicket
...just keeps getting stickier...
A woman who claims she was raped by members of Duke University's lacrosse team was described as "just passed-out drunk" by one of the first police officers to see her, according to a recording of radio traffic released Thursday.The conversation between the officer and a police dispatcher took place about 1:30 a.m. March 14, about five minutes after a grocery store security guard called 911 to report a woman in the parking lot who would not get out of someone else's car.
The officer gave the dispatcher the police code for an intoxicated person. When asked whether the woman needed medical help, the officer said: "She's breathing and appears to be fine. She's not in distress. She's just passed out drunk."
World News Tonight played the recording of the call. What happened when she woke up?
TUESDAY, MARCH 14 -- At 12:53 a.m., a woman called 911 to report that a man had shouted racial slurs at her and a friend as they walked by a house owned by Duke and rented by several players.
At 1:22 a.m., a security guard at a Kroger grocery called 911 to report that a woman outside the store had refused to get out of her car and that she appeared intoxicated. After the police arrived, she accused three lacrosse players, whom she identified by first names, of forcing her into a bathroom at the house and sexually assaulting her for 30 minutes. The woman said she and another woman had been hired to perform as exotic dancers for a party at the house.
The devil's in the details.
Posted by tree hugging sister at April 13, 2006 07:00 PM
Comments
My Duke license plate is still proudly on the front of the 'burb.
Let's go Devils! (clap clap clapclapclap) (no pun intended)
Posted by: Lisa at April 13, 2006 07:41 PM
Too bad all those McD's All Americans get their talent raped by Rat Face and never make it in the Pro's.
Seriously, has anyone mentioned the context by which the "drunken" statement was made? In the previously released 911 call, the caller mentioned the gal was drunk. The officer was talking to dispatch - why would he say she was passed out drunk? Because dispatch needed to know if they were going to send an ambulance. The officer was just telling dispatch not to send an ambulance in a colorful manner.
Posted by: azbballfan at April 14, 2006 08:43 PM
Too bad all those McD's All Americans get their talent raped by Rat Face and never make it in the Pro's.
Seriously, has anyone mentioned the context by which the "drunken" statement was made? In the previously released 911 call, the caller mentioned the gal was drunk. The officer was talking to dispatch - why would he say she was passed out drunk? Because dispatch needed to know if they were going to send an ambulance. The officer was just telling dispatch not to send an ambulance in a colorful manner.
Posted by: azbballfan at April 14, 2006 08:44 PM