Ah. Full of shit. Got it.

The truth is that there is a lot of unwarranted hysteria about sex trafficking. You get these weird rumors passed around suburbia that sex traffickers are sneaking about and marking the cars of single women in shopping malls and other absurd things. And if you take the time to research the trafficking that largely occurs, it almost never involves snatching somebody off the street.

And I was replying to somebody who said that things "didn't add up" and I was trying to explain why they might feel that to be the case.

OP was the victim of a violent crime, and luckily was not a further victim of a worse crime. I'm certainly not lecturing her nor even directly addressing her.

That's certainly an attempt at twisting a statement.

Sounds like more an attempted rape situation than "sex trafficking." Virtually nobody is abducted off the street randomly to be trafficked. There's no need, when they can just pluck kids out of poor neighborhoods, or, even more likely, prey upon immigrants illegal and otherwise.

That being said, what happened to OP is scary and she doesn't need some internet nerds like you or me telling her "well ackshually" right now, I'd wager.

It's amazing how much you can be on auto-pilot.

We'd need more information, I think. Police in DC have a pretty high bar for what merits a chase, and if he was armed & dangerous or something akin to that, imagine how the public would be crowing if they let him go and he then injured or killed somebody. Catch-22.

By all means, he should be able to vacate his plea and get slammed with a harsher sentence.

I'm not a fan of the carceral state, but this action screams of "I have neither learned anything nor have any remorse for my actions." Therefore I have no issue with him trying to back out of his deal and potentially getting slammed with many additional years.

/u/MyTornArsehole is pulling the collective leg of people who aren't reading the article

By our rules, they'd have to do it on our premises in order to bar them for this behavior.

Don't get me wrong, I want nothing more than for Kirk Cameron to keep his clown car packed up and detour around DC, but I do want people to understand that the staff at the library have our hands tied when it comes to this.

It would take a decision from high-up administration, as in at the level of the Director, for us to turn them away, and would likely require the media relations people to coordinate with the Mayor's office to prepare for the tizzy conservatives would throw over it.

We don't have the ability to refuse Kirk Cameron use of the space so long as he abides by library rules. So long as he is just doing a public reading from his book and doesn't start to actively proselytize while on the building campus our hands are tied.

Lucky for me I don't work at Cleveland Park and as such won't have to deal with this awful meeting, but I feel for the staff who do.

Please be aware that the library IS NOT ENDORSING NOR OTHERWISE INVOLVED OTHER THAN PROVIDING THE SPACE.

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Due to the way the library offers its services, we can't turn down any public meetings so long as they abide by the rules and regulations as delineated on our website. Ergo the staff at Cleveland Park would be going against our mission of being open and available to everybody so long as they aren't indulging in hate speech or bringing out torches.

Looks like December 2012.

I could've sworn this has happened twice to this location, but maybe I'm just remembering the same story across the years.

Yeah Jen has been gone for like three years now.

We're not having that issue any longer.

Whoever downvoted you didn't get the Marjorie Taylor-Greene reference, I believe.

Six billion illegals with probably nine times that number of genders invading the America States of Necessary Divorce to make your children socialists who are taught by educators in drag about evolution.

Getting grants and being solid for a few years and then going full tilt scam under the guise of doing important work is a much better long term grift than riding around on your hoverboard and harassing people while your genitals flop around barely covered, eh?

Such a damned shame. The DC library police are some of the only uniformed police in the city who are almost universally good and decent people. Helps that they exist mostly to just keep the library as being a safe refuge for all, including the unhoused and otherwise disadvantaged. You are only asked to leave the building if you are taking away from the ability of others to enjoy the space.

They don't write stupid tickets or have any quotas to fulfill. And they actually work with the institution's social worker to offer assistance to people who are willing or able to take it.