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    wishtStassa Edwards
    4/18/16 1:20pm

    THAT IS NOT HOW YOU FRIEND

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      accordingtowisht
      4/18/16 1:24pm

      AGREED.

      This is how you friend:

      One of Lonina’s friends saw the Periscope stream and contacted the police.

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      MisterJingleswisht
      4/18/16 1:30pm

      I was going to say, I think we’re being a bit loose with the term friend here.

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    newsratnessStassa Edwards
    4/18/16 1:20pm

    hi monday, fuck you.

    One one hand, there is irrefutable proof that the victim was raped. I wonder what the net pain index is of having your rape live streamed vs. having your rape doubted and never ever getting the help you need.


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      randilynisFINDILYNnewsratness
      4/18/16 1:22pm

      The Wendy Williams approach to documentation

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      IronPlushynewsratness
      4/18/16 1:25pm

      You are very very naive if you think “irrefutable proof” and “rape” can exist in the same sentence in this fucked up world. He’ll get misdemeanor sexual assault and the tape will end up on motherless with the rest of the videos rapists made so pychos can enjoy it.

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    weebleswobbleStassa Edwards
    4/18/16 1:25pm

    “Caught up in the likes.” For fuck’s sake.

    I suppose her phone doesn’t have a camera that can save video for documentation instead of streaming it.

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      festivusaziliweebleswobble
      4/18/16 1:29pm

      Public shaming of anyone that hit like seems like a good use of the internet outrage machine.

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      Tammsterweebleswobble
      4/18/16 1:36pm

      I don’t know, if something is filmed and stored on a phone it would be very easy for the rapist to take it away and delete/destroy the evidence. Streaming it/sending it to the cloud means that it’s out of reach. Although I’d hope I’d do something to stop the attack as well.

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    8rianWilliamsUnhingedStassa Edwards
    4/18/16 1:38pm

    Bracing myself for the flame..., but:

    To witness a victimization offers the by-stander a few options, including intervene, call on a more powerful authority to intervene, or remove oneself from being a witness. I believe most people respond, so as to protect their ego and conscience, by doing the latter. (Please add to the list, if you know of other ways to stop a crime in progress.)

    Intervention comes with risks, and as any lifeguard can tell you, self-preservation dictates that intervention should only commence when it is safe to do so. I haven’t seen the video, but if the rapist was older (more authoritative by ‘maturity’) and more powerful, there might have been risk of physical harm to Lonina. Only she could determine that.

    We all know how difficult it is to convince law enforcement that a rape actually occurred, when it did. Hell, sometimes courts don’t even accept video evidence of a crime, such as when a cop kills someone.

    In the height of anxiety about what to do as a horror proceeds, perhaps Lonina’s only creative solution to the crime was to increase the number of witnesses, by showing the world, so that her trauma would lessen her personal alienation. However horrific the crime and her solution were, it does have the effect of proving beyond doubt that the rape actually occurred.

    It is a flawed solution, but an effective solution none-the-less. I hope Lonina is acquitted, and the rapist severely punished as a result of her efforts.

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      ZhiBaChu: Awkward Detective8rianWilliamsUnhinged
      4/18/16 1:57pm

      You hope she’s acquitted?!

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      8rianWilliamsUnhingedZhiBaChu: Awkward Detective
      4/18/16 2:05pm

      Having witnessed crimes before and having been the victim of sexual assault, I wish there had been evidence beyond my own traumatized “word.” Yes.

      I think the people here assume she took pleasure in the voyerism, rather than allowing the voyerism to vindicate both her and the victim, and that is a huge and dangerous assumption to make. I think the vast majority here in the comments are taking the phrase “caught up in the likes” for granted, without questioning why the author chose that interpretation. It’s clearly working as clickbait.

      Lacking a more thorough explanation of events, Iconsider calls to prosecute the videographer to be a protracted version of victim shaming, by people who think the shame of being a victim is worse than being a victim.

      Can you describe the behavior, which would be accurately described as ‘caught up in the likes.’ Perhaps she was glad that some justice might result, because ‘likes’ meant that other people were witnessing the crime.

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    VoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriverStassa Edwards
    4/18/16 1:27pm
    GIF

    Stories like this are what make it hard for my 35 year old self to relate to the youth. Now I want to make it clear that I am not taking any of the blame off of where it belongs, the sack of shit who committed the rape. Now that said, I can’t get the mindset where you see your friend being violently violated and your first thought isn’t “I better call 911" and is rather “I’ll be the Internet will love this”. I just can’t imagine many my age going with that thought process.

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      chrischaVoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriver
      4/18/16 1:31pm

      It’s not a mindset that most young people share.

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      MisfitToyVoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriver
      4/18/16 1:34pm

      No, but if we were raised immersed in all this tech? Then, yeah, we totally be the same.

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    HaHaYouFoolStassa Edwards
    4/18/16 1:25pm

    “I’m going to live stream this to preserve the evidence.”

    GIF
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      spad13HaHaYouFool
      4/18/16 1:44pm

      Right? Like, you can record video on your phone without having to livestream it. It’s actually pretty easy.

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      freaks go all the wayspad13
      4/18/16 2:51pm

      Why film at all? Why not call the cops i-fucking-mmediately? I think a rape kit and a witness would make the allegation hold. I can’t imagine filming such a horrific thing.

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    AlckapteStassa Edwards
    4/18/16 1:21pm

    Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid other women will live stream their rape.

    Fuck me.

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      ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILDAlckapte
      4/18/16 1:25pm

      Thank the goddess for sisterhood...

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      BoredHagʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      4/18/16 1:28pm

      Taylor swift will be so PO’d when she hears about this.

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    nightvaleStassa Edwards
    4/18/16 1:23pm

    I can’t imagine watching my friend (at any age) get brutalized and not do anything about it - even if I put my own safety at risk. Period. To me this girl is a guilty as the rapist.

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      FeralFrigidSlutnightvale
      4/18/16 1:29pm

      No she’s not.

      Which is not to say she is not guilty at all.

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      NonServiam's Ghostnightvale
      4/18/16 1:45pm

      She might be, to you. But by any objective standard she is less guilty than the rapist. Still a major, and likely irredeemable, piece of shit.

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    FluterDaleStassa Edwards
    4/18/16 1:40pm

    I understand that “Casual Acquaintance” and “Person She Was Allegedly Friends With But Who She Ultimately Betrayed in a Way That Doesn’t Even Make Sense to a Rational Human” is entirely too long a description for the title.

    I still think I would’ve chosen nearly any other word to describe Lonina’s relationship to the victim, here.

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      0nceUp0nATimeFluterDale
      4/18/16 1:48pm

      Whether or not they had an established friendship, I can’t imagine this girl not helping the victim. I’d help someone I just met five minutes ago. I’d help a woman I passed on the street and didn’t even make eye contact with, for Christ’s sake.

      She filmed the attack. And she giggled.

      Unless she can somehow convince the world that she’s known for giggling when in terror, and she turned on Periscope instead of calling 911 as some kind of new form of Millenial cry-for-help, I’d say we have a great candidate nominated for Worst Person of 2016.

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      accordingto0nceUp0nATime
      4/18/16 2:05pm

      She’s not a millennial! She’s Gen Z/Digital Native. Millennials were still taught to call 911 from a pay phone.

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    adultosaur married anna on the astral planeStassa Edwards
    4/18/16 1:49pm

    “And as she immediately told the police, she was filming in order to preserve, not to embarrass or to shame or to titillate anybody.”

    lets be INSANELY generous with this horrendous girl and say she was filming it for evidence, because she was actually terrified, helpless and threatened

    MAYBE LIKE IDK JUST FILM IT AND NOT LIVE STREAM IT

    MAYBE TEXT SOMEONE FOR HELP IF YOU’RE INTENT ON HELPING?

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      Dbeds15adultosaur married anna on the astral plane
      4/18/16 3:10pm

      See the thing that gets me is she did nothing to help at all. I mean someone who saw it on periscope actually called for help.

      I cant imagine a woman watching another woman going through that, and thinking the best option vs calling the cops or attacking the guy was to live stream it.

      I can imagine how oh lets “live stream it” was her first instinct vs trying to help.

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