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What the so-called "Cornell 7" case needed was a serious investigator who would carefully sort through the conflicting claims, including claims made by the alleged victim which seem to contradict some of her own statements. What it got instead was Gov. Kathy Hochul and DA Letitia James, both of whom have clearly already made up their minds about the case.

Gov. Hochul, in appointing James to investigate, made it clear that no investigation was really necessary because she already knows what happened.

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The Cornell rape accuser was "failed" by people obligated to protect her, including police and the prosecutor, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said at a news conference on Friday.

A visibly outraged Hochul blasted Cornell University Police, the Tompkins County District Attorney and the state's rape laws before introducing Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the controversial case

James told a packed news conference at the governors office that this is now "an active criminal investigation." She pledged a full and fair investigation...

"I am deeply disturbed by Cornell University's police and how they handled this," Hochul said. She said sending a "partial record" to the district attorney was a failure...

"In what world would the police learn from the victim that she had been literally been gang raped" and that she believed "100%" she had been raped and not elevate those allegations, Hochul said.

edhopper (37,867 posts)

Stagflation is here

No jobs, no wage increases, inflation. Is the Media afraid of the word?

bucolic_frolic (57,149 posts)
1. Unpatriotic to use the word stagflation. It's how the US Treasury plans to pay off federal debt.
You don't have a job, your money is worth less, debt is cheaper and cheaper each month.

Johonny (27,480 posts)
3. It appears the FED will be powerless to change
The trajectory. Certainly Trump is clueless to the causes and solutions. I assume it will continue to get worse...

https://democraticunderground.com/100221539091

Then came the sales pitch.

"On January 7th of this year, Renee and Becca had just dropped off their child at school, and they were happy," family attorney Antonio Romanucci said at a press conference. "They were extremely happy. They were bundled up for a Minneapolis winter, and they were driving their Honda Pilot just like ordinary people. They were returning home when their drive was interrupted by armed, masked federal agents who had invaded their city of Minneapolis by the thousands."

This is not what happened.

We've seen multiple videos of the incident many times from different angles, and there's no doubt she attempted to run the agent over with her car. Romanucci is asking the country to forget footage it has already watched.

Start with his claim that the two women were driving home together. Renee Good stopped her car sideways with the deliberate intent of obstructing ICE. Her partner Becca got out of the vehicle to film the ICE operation. This was all by design. When an agent ordered Renee out, yelling, "Get out of the f*****g car," and tried to open the door, Becca tried to get back in on the passenger side but couldn’t open the door. So she shouted, over and over, "Drive, baby, drive!" Renee then backed the Honda Pilot up, turned the wheels, pointed the SUV at the agent, and hit the gas. The tires spun on the ice for a moment, and then the vehicle rammed into him.

Becca knows this better than anyone, because she said so herself. A later video shows her acknowledging her role in the tragedy. "I made her come down here; it's my fault," she said.

So Becca admitted they were there on purpose, not just part of their usual drive home. ... The Goods were there to obstruct and antagonize. Becca taunted agents, then told Renee to drive, and Renee did, with an agent in her path, forcing him to defend himself after she struck him.
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... After Trump won the 2024 election, she and Becca left the country entirely and spent several months in Canada. When they came back, they picked Minneapolis, a self-declared sanctuary city that limits local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

That wasn't an accident.

Multiple local sources said Good linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her six-year-old son's woke charter school, which boasts that it puts "social justice first" and prioritizes "involving kids in political and social activism." One mother at the school said Good "was trained against these ICE agents — what to do, what not to do; it's a very thorough training… To listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent."

Gov. Kathy Hochul has directed New York Attorney General Letitia James to take over the criminal investigation into accusations that a former Cornell University student was gang raped by several frat brothers at the Ivy League school in 2024.

Hochul appointed James special prosecutor of the case after she said she lost faith in Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten’s investigation into the stomach-turning allegations when new reporting revealed discrepancies in what the DA said the survivor originally reported.

“Newly released information continues to raise serious questions about the investigation conducted by the Cornell Police Department and the decision by the Tompkins County District Attorney not to prosecute an alleged sexual assault on Cornell University’s campus in October 2024,” the governor said in a statement Thursday evening.