Something that got grossly underreported, in my opinion, was the Border Patrol Serial Killer, Juan David Ortiz.

I watched some coverage of his trial.  But it was unedited trial footage, which, if you've ever watched it, can be very long and boring.  There is a lot of waiting while they do procedural things, and it won't make a lot of sense unless you follow the entire thing, all day, every day, for weeks.

USA Today

"From Sept. 3 to 15, 2018, prosecutors said, [Juan David] Ortiz picked up the women – Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Luera, Guiselda Hernandez and Janelle Ortiz – along Laredo’s San Bernardo Avenue, a stretch populated by sex workers and drug pushers. One by one, he drove them out to remote stretches of the county and shot them with his government-issued .40-caliber handgun, leaving their bodies slumped on dirt roads or under overpasses. All women were known to be sex workers who struggled with drug addiction.

Prosecutors also played all 9½ hours of a videotaped interview conducted by investigators on Ortiz after his arrest, where he described how he picked up and shot the women in remote locations. In the video, Ortiz told him how he returned to San Bernardo Avenue – Laredo's red-light district where the women lived and worked – repeatedly, looking for another victim. 
"I continued driving on (San Bernardo)," he says in the video. "This is where the monster came out."

On Tuesday, prosecutors also played a jailhouse phone call recording between Ortiz, being held at Webb County Jail at the time, and his wife, Daniela Ortiz. In the call, Ortiz's wife tries to console him as he complains that he's worried about the lengthy confession he gave investigators during his interview.

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Since January 2010, more than 245 people have died as the result of an encounter with an agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which includes Border Patrol, according to a list compiled by the Southern Border Communities Coalition, an advocacy group. 

Immigrant advocates for years have pushed for more transparency in how the agency disciplines its agents for wrongdoing. They point to a number of cross-border shootings by Border Patrol agents over the years as a troubling trend at the agency. "


So I didn't get all the way into researching this case, because there is so much to it, and the material isn't broken down.  I would have to review all of it to review anything  But I feel like it's an important one. 
Ortiz was convicted on four counts of murder.

  A 22-year-old former police officer has been arrested in the murder of 16-year-old high-school junior Susana Morales.

Fox 5 Atlanta

"In the warrant application, officials allege that [Miles] Bryant lives close to where Morales was last reported on Windscape Village Lane and dumped her naked body in the woods.

The warrant also says police suspect Bryant of rape, murder, and other felonies, though the former officer has not been charged with any of those offenses at this time. 

Bryant does face charges of concealing the death of another and false report of a crime. In the warrant, police accuse Bryant of falsely reporting that his vehicle had been broken into and that his gun was stolen."

You would have to see how gorgeous and tiny this teenage girl was, at 5'2 and 115 pounds.  What a cowardly and sickening crime.

A woman Bryant knew from school, Elesha Bates, describes a number of weird and creepy things Bryant allegedly did, including trying to unscrew her doorknob to get in her apartment, which her neighbor brought to her attention.

Bates went to his department.

From the above link:

"She says Bryant became so aggressive she feared for her life and reported the then police officer to his employer Doraville Police and Gwinnett County Police. The 21-year-old says she feared for her life.

Reporter: "Did you get a firearm because of him?"
Bates: "Yes."

Doraville Police says they launched an administrative investigation, talked to Bryant and the behavior stopped. Doraville Police says they told Bates to report any potential criminal charges to the Gwinnett County Police Department."  [Emphasis added]

Sorry, but that's just so infuriating to me, that this bullshit flies.  They had no follow-up questions.  We told this police officer not to act like a lunatic anymore, and he said okay, scout's honor.  And when he allegedly abducts and murders a teenage girl, we get to do a surprised Pikachu face and say it's a stain on law enforcement everywhere as if nobody could have foreseen something like this.

Again from the same link above.

"Gwinnett County Police says they are not sure why her complaint was not followed up on, but they are reopening the case.

Ms. Bates believes both police agencies dropped the ball."

I do, too.  And a teenager got murdered, whoopsie.  The same department that insisted she was a runaway when she was reported missing, assumed Miles would stop acting crazy when they told him to.  They're not sure why her complaint wasn't followed up on?  I know why.  They DGAF.

Some people are assholes.  And then there's Harvey Weinstein. 

I really don't care about him, other than being glad to know he'll probably never get out of jail.  The specifics about his case, like which ones he was convicted of and which ones he was acquitted of, I will leave for other people to report.  The most important bits, for me, other than his pissy little gloating that the movie She Said didn't make money, are the below quotes

From The Daily Beast.

"Weinstein also spoke at the hearing, begging the judge to go easy him and calling it all “a setup.”

“This is about money and coming after me,” he insisted. “Please don’t sentence me to life in prison. I don’t deserve it.”

Hahahahaaaaaa fuck you, Harvey. 

At 70 years of age they gave him another 16 years in Los Angeles, to serve after he finishes his time in New York.  He's probably going to die in prison.

They always say, "She's lying for money," while they destroy you economically.  Eat a dick as ugly as yours, Harvey.

Okay everybody, grab a box of tissues.  We're going for a ride in the waaaaaaaahmbulance.

I'm going to post the Daily Beast article in its entirety, adding emphasis of my own.

"A former Google executive has filed suit claiming he faced retaliation and was eventually fired because he reported sexual misconduct by a colleague. Ryan Olohan, 48, claims the tech giant swept his complaint under the rug because he is a man and the alleged aggressor is a woman. According to the New York Post, the suit alleges that Tiffany Miller groped Olohan at a business dinner in 2019--and then began reporting him for microaggressions after he went to human resources. Miller denies it. “This lawsuit is a fictional account of events filled with numerous falsehoods, fabricated by a disgruntled ex-employee, who was senior to Ms. Miller at Google,” her spokesman said. “Ms. Miller never made any ‘advance’ toward Mr. Olohan, which witnesses can readily corroborate.”

What drew my snark about this was my personal experience.  I recall working at a certain law firm in Chicago back in the day.  One of the attorneys was a notorious creeper.  He would lean against our shoulders while we did his work. None of us were comfortable with having his genitals on our arms.

None of the women in my work group appreciated his leering looks or his double-entendre comments.  At one point he brought in a box of vintage porn photos that he claimed had belonged to a deceased client, and he supposedly needed his secretary to inventory them.  She was to number each one and give them descriptive titles, which she declined.

When I finally got fed up with his bullshit, I went to HR and complained.  They immediately told him who had complained.  Then he came straight to me and gave me shit about it, immediately, and each day thereafter.  He was a partner, I was at the bottom of the typing pool.  They made no attempt to prevent him hassling me about it.

A few weeks later I was "reduced in force" for lack of work.  Then they hired someone else to replace me.  Did I have the means to sue the law firm that I worked for?  No, no I didn't.

So forgive me if I don't collapse into a puddle for poor, dear, Ryan Olohan.  I'm not calling him a liar.  It sounds like they have an extremely sloppy interpersonal culture over there.   She was probably rude and they obviously didn't get along.

I'm just saying that what happened to him isn't that big of a deal in the scheme of things.  She didn't even allegedly touch his dick, only his stomach.  She still shouldn't have touched him or talked about his wife or their sex life, especially if she's his superior.  And so?  Grow the fuck up, Ryan.

Does that sound harsh?

If Ryan had a real problem and weren't being a dork about it, I would be right behind him.

Look at the first thing I highlighted there.  He's claiming that the reason Google didn't pursue it is because the alleged aggressor is a woman!  HAHAHAHAAAAAA  OMG as if Google is now somehow pro-woman?  GOOGLE? Google is the great enabler of toxic women?  Bless his heart. 

No darling, this is how sexual harassment and general workplace bullying have always worked.  Nobody has ever given a fuck about your feelings or your personal space being violated.  They always do whatever makes you go away with minimal disruption to their work flow.  Welcome to our world.  Take a number whenever you stop sobbing.

Look, it's not impossible that a woman boss grabs your junk.  Some dweeb allegedly had the nerve to grab Terry Crews' balls, who is big enough to snap people like twigs -- in front of his wife, no less.  Sex offenders do stupid and crazy things, and some of them are female.  It's a power trip.

This article from The Daily Mail gives a lot more detail, which actually makes me much less sympathetic to Olohan overall.  Really it was the "... and they wouldn't help me because I'm a man" that made me want to watch him get skewered by narwhals, but also this:

• All of these alleged issues arose while the coworkers were drinking together after work hours.  In other words, could have been avoided, unlike the ton of sexual harassment I have had to march through my entire working life -- for which I am sure I got paid much, much less than Ryan Olohan.  But whenever we have a shitty male coworker, we're expected to definitely not go out drinking with him after he's already groped us once.  And if we do, when he rapes and strangles us, it's our own fault, right?  Every time.
• The "groping" in question involved her touching his abdomen only, no actual sex organs.  GO FUCK YOURSELF, RYAN.  As a paramedic I don't know how many people grabbed my boobs and crotch while I was working, and I literally just swatted their hands away because I knew that any other action on my part would be career-ending.  So put on your big-boy britches and really just GFY, Ryan.  I know women who have been raped, penetrated and strangled at work, didn't dare come forward at all, were forced to quit and find other jobs whether they could afford it or not.  Just fuck you, Ryan. 
• The Daily Mail article makes it really clear that Ryan feels very victimized as a white guy. 
• Now, if his boss was being obnoxious to him sexually, and he was told, "You gotta let Tiffany be Tiffany," that's messed up.  I'm not a believer in "let X be X," the old "boys will be boys."  If Google is now extending that to women also, that's not a net positive nor a feminist milestone, that's just bullshit.  Less accountability for toxic women is not the goal.  But if that is what happened, that Google is sweeping his complaint under the rug, it's not because he's a man and she's a woman.  It's because that's how the world has always worked, honey bunny.

Bottom line, Ryan Olohan's argument is that women get a free pass and men are under attack, boo hoo hoo.  I wonder what color is the sky on his planet?

Ryan should be really grateful he doesn't have boobs, that's all I can tell him.  I'm really trying to sit here and even think about every time I got harassed or grabbed on the job, and how insanely rich I would be if I could have sued somebody every single time.

Next time don't go out drinking with your coworkers so much.  You should know a good-looking guy like you can't be around women when they're drunk, they get ideas.  Dress in a way that doesn't show them your tight abs.  Always have somebody walk you to your car.  Keep your keys laced in between your fingers.  You know, the hundreds of things women have to constantly do to hopefully avoid getting sexually victimized.

My friend Donna met Bill Kurtis back in the 80s.  She had a Geo Metro, which was the most eco-friendly car on the market back then.  She was driving it, and Bill Kurtis pulled up next to her and gave her a thumbs-up.  That was very cool for back then.  Bill Kurtis was a big deal.

Other people had seen him around and had similar experiences of him being a fairly regular guy, definitely not a butthole at all despite being a big celebrity -- very much like Roger Ebert.

So when I saw that A&E has now done this piece I have mixed feelings, to be honest.  Bill Kurtis does some good reporting and I know him personally not to be a dick.  Carol Marin was like a honey badger of the news all my life, and a few more Chicago investigative legends too.  I really appreciate those people as a true crime writer.

But A&E has an exploitative streak that hearkens back to the earliest days of true crime, the True Detective magazines of the 1970s.  There's always an ick factor, always something for the low-empathy, getting-off-on-the-violence crowd.  It's walked way back from the shameless pulp magazines.  But it never disappears completely on A&E.  For me the exploitation of sexual violence in the media is like a sandwich that has mayo only slightly tinged with poo.  It doesn't bother the general population somehow.

I started reading those True Detective magazines at the drug store when I was 8, trying to understand what had happened to me with Joe Kalady.  And I remember the day I stopped, when I suddenly realized these stories were by and for guys like Joe.  I had a panic attack and ran home from the drug store as fast as I could.

Despite whatever benefit of the doubt I'm willing to give Bill Kurtis, I can only give this piece a mixed thumbs-up, thumbs-down, because I'm hesitant to watch it today based on my mood.  A&E is not necessarily "for survivors."  There's a tinge of exploitation throughout.  Some days I just can't cope with it.  They'll getcha.

I'm going to watch this at some point.  Because I do appreciate Bill Kurtis and the things they have reported.  But I have seen things on that channel (not necessarily reported by Kurtis) that have irked me bad enough that I've had to discuss it in therapy more than once.  I can't always afford to watch their reporting in terms of my mental health.  I've seen them do things that were downright dishonest and manipulative.

I'm glad they're covering the rape kit backlog.  I discuss this in my book.  So I appreciate the support, especially from as big a platform as A&E.  It's progress.

So there I was, pushing my walker down the street like an old, crippled woman.  It was late in the evening, in a fancy, residential part of town.

I looked over, and not really to my surprise, I saw a man sitting on a front porch masturbating.  It's rather cold out, especially after dark.  He was wearing a dark coat with a hood pulled up, so I couldn't see anything but a dark figure in a rocking chair making the classic "chicken choking" gesture.

"Get some privacy, WTF man?" I shouted as I walked past.  The town where I live is famous for being a bit of a ghetto.

I walked about five steps, out of visual range of the creeper, and saw a police patrol car coming slowly toward me.  So I made the same gesture I had just seen, and pointed to the man in the rocking chair.

The cop rolled down his window.  "Did you call?"

I shook my head no.  The cop hit his light bar for a few seconds.  Then they both got out. 

Based on my experience in fire and EMS, I can tell you that the one and only purpose of hitting the lights in that instance was to let the guy know that it's time to put it back in your pants.  The cops are here now, and we don't want to arrest you, so please give us an easy out.  They're saying, "Work with us, bro."

I called dispatch and gave them my name and number anyway, and continued on my way.  I did what I was doing for two hours.  Checked my phone.  SURPRISE!  I hadn't heard from them.  I knew they weren't going to do anything.  But I'm just too old for this shit now.  When I call them about people parked across the sidewalk they come out and ticket them every time, you know?  But this is no problem. 

So I called back and asked why they hadn't done anything.  I was notified that the man had advised the police that he had a skin condition, and he was simply scratching himself.  So he was advised not to come back to that location.

That's the solution!  Just have him go jack off elsewhere, problem solved.

I'm actually much more concerned about it now that I know it wasn't his own front porch.  Think about how aggressive that guy actually is, that he strolls up onto other people's front porches to do that.  It's one step from breaking in to engage the occupants sexually.

Unfortunately nothing about any of this surprises me.  Welcome to rape culture, all day, every day.  This is the greatest example of how "he-said, she-said" can never fail.

RECAP:

• Someone sees a man masturbating; this is self-evident to them.  They call 911 about it.
• I walk past and see the same man masturbating; this is also self-evident to me.
• I report this to the police using body language only.  My report is self-evident to them.
• The police confront the man, and he gives a ridiculous excuse.
• The police don't interview the other witness.
• I'm willing to bet they didn't document any skin condition, because they don't want to take pictures of his erect penis.
• Three against one, we all knew what we saw.  Yet the one with the most to lose is allowed to defeat the other three.  Because "he-said, she-said" makes police work disappear like magic.

Well, it had to happen.  A documentary called Justice by Doug Liman opened at Sundance, looking at even more complaints against Brett Kavanaugh that never got investigated.  They had to announce it at the very last minute, and show it under tight security for obvious reasons.  This entire country is armed and dangerous, especially the right side.

Because the one thing you're not supposed to do in America, you're most especially not allowed to say that Kevin (or "male Karen" as he's known in the common parlance) did anything uncool with his junk.  Everything Kevin does with his wiener is fine, on both sides of the aisle.

Business Insider:

"Asked what he originally hoped would result from the film — further investigations or other impacts — Liman said what happens after the film is "so beyond my control," adding, "We live in a climate where, no matter what we put in this movie, it is likely that the people that support the status quo are going to keep supporting it, and I sort of came to the answer for myself: Maybe the truth matters. It matters now, it'll matter in the future, and maybe that's it."

Hey, if it's that hard for a filmmaker to even talk about it after the political firestorm has ended, if Doug Liman is freaked out about his lack of agency, just imagine being the one who got assaulted and trying to come forward because you got harmed.

Nobody in American politics seems capable of conceptualizing rape as an actual crime, like an assault that needs to be dealt with on an interpersonal level.  For them it's all some theoretical bullshit, just an improvised political explosive device that they can manipulate and toss.

This is why Biden-Harris, and all of their supporters, will never be anything but scumbag rape-troll bullies to me.  I voted for him because first Anita Hill, then Angela Davis said it was imperative no matter how we feel.  The Democrats twisted my voting arm until it snapped.  I voted for the blue rapist over the red rapist.  I will never vote again.

Biden got less investigation than Kavanaugh.  He then went on to say "I have nothing to apologize for," and made consent jokes all down the campaign trail.

His campaign and its followers -- The Krassenstein brothers, Joan Walsh, Amanda Marcotte, and Michelle Goldberg (who now apparently lives in Ari Melber's green room) -- trashed Tara Reade rather than looking at the very obvious problematic behavior of the senator from my credit card.  The amount of rape trolling I personally took from the K-Hive based strictly on my race and gender was inexcusable.  With friends like them, I don't need Republicans.

NOTE TO THE DEMOCRATS:
Rape culture is not like being chased by a bear.  You don't need to be just slightly better than the other team.  One day somebody's going to make a documentary about Joe, brace yourselves.

Hell hath no fury something something.

Apparently this is becoming a thing, guys going to some place of business to abduct the women working there.  Fortunately it's not working out for them.

Like the guy who attempted to zip tie a barista and drag her into his truck, someone else tried to wrangle a Lowe's employee into his vehicle.

This incident was also apparently planned in advance, as he parked near the back door.  Another horrifying video.  Thankfully a coworker prevented the attacker from making off with her.

I wish I was making it up.  The barista is okay, he didn't manage to pull her into the truck. And the suspect is in custody. 

Men just don't have to live this way, in this kind of fear from other men every minute of every day.  Men don't randomly snare each other like wild game.

VICE News does some really good work, not just ace reporter Elle Reeves. 

In this documentary, they take a look at what a shit show the Louisville Metro Police Department has been.  It's about 45 minutes long and definitely worth watching.

I wrote about the case of Emery Taylor, a gas-station employee who was groped by an on-duty, uniformed LMPD officer who was coming in often and following her around the store on a regular basis.  He was given probation only, and there was no mention of him losing his police powers.  In other words as far as I know he could be rehired at another department despite being videotaped repeatedly stalking and sexually assaulting Emery Taylor at her place of work -- in front of multiple witnesses while on duty and in uniform.

So it shouldn't shock you that after a woman called and complained that she was tired of this one detective hitting her up for blowjobs every day, they didn't go into high gear.  She didn't follow up, so they dropped the ball.  There were multiple clues, from various angles, that apparently didn't prompt any sort of serious response.  Like with Ferguson, Missouri, things were very bad for a long time before  the Justice Department stepped in.

In the Daniel Holtzclaw case, there was one victim that came forward and the detective, Kim Davis, took it serious like cancer.  The video evidence didn't show any of the activity, only the time stamp.  It showed them out there on that deserted road for way too long to be doing the nothing in particular Holtzclaw claimed they were doing.

Holtzclaw relied upon the same sort of nudge nudge, wink wink, that the multiple serial predators in Louisville clearly relied upon for years.   And unfortunately for himself, it wasn't available in Oklahoma, at least not with Davis.  Because Holtzclaw's version of events didn't make sense, and his survivor's did, according to nothing but the timestamp and common sense.  When I watched the Holtzclaw interview I could tell he was guilty just because his story didn't add up and hers did.

Anyway this VICE documentary is tough to watch, when you see how brazen the Louisville crew was, and all the disgusting games they ran, Holtzclawing left and right.  Highly recommended when you have 45 minutes.