The film is rife with misrepresentations or outright lies. There is no indication of men who have been falsely accused, no mention of the many lawsuits brought against universities and false accusers. There is no presentation of the men's stories. "The Hunting Ground" does not provide the most basic safeguards of accuracy.
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Akin dies at 74 Republicans may regret restricting reproductive rights MORE (D-Mo.) stated at a press conference that "any team that is thinking about drafting Jameis Winston watch this movie before doing so." Claire McCaskill Claire Conner McCaskill Lobbying world Ex-Rep. have found former Florida State quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston not to be a rapist." Perhaps in response to a lawsuit by Kinsman, Winston has sued his accuser back, alleging that she demanded $7 million to drop the case. explained that "Three separate investigations. In a National Review article, Stuart Taylor Jr. Journalist Cathy Young conducted a blistering expose of Sulkowicz (who went on to perform in an extremely graphic pornographic video that allegedly relived the assault).įlorida State University (FSU) student Erica Kinsman accused Jameis Winston, an FSU football player who was later selected as the first overall pick in the 2015 NFL draft. The fellow student accused by Columbia undergraduate Emma Sulkowicz was found "not responsible," and repeatedly so, by the university's disciplinary committee. The "documentary" is also inaccurate about two other women presented and their jarring stories of sexual assault, both of which have been discredited.
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So are investigative journalists like Emily Yoffe, who penned an expose of the case in Slate, " How The Hunting Ground Blurs the Truth." A grand jury was also convinced and took the unusual step of refusing to indict Winston on the most serious charges a jury found him "guilty" of a single nonsexual misdemeanor of "touching." The judge sentenced him to a brief probation. Having closely reviewed the evidence, the professors are certain of his innocence.
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of the general sexual assault phenomenon at universities." The professors are rallying behind their student, Brandon Winston, who was not mentioned by name but clearly portrayed in the film as a rapist and repeated predator. 15, 19 Harvard professors issued a joint press release, calling "The Hunting Ground" a "purported documentary" that is "propaganda" and "provides a seriously false picture. Kirsten Gillibrand Kirsten Gillibrand This Thanksgiving, skip the political food fights and talk UFOs instead Lobbying world Democrats optimistic as social spending bill heads to Senate MORE (D-N.Y.), who is featured in the film, has introduced the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, a controversial bill that seems to marginalize police involvement in campus rape cases. Documentaries, like studies, are often preludes to legislation. IM SO GLAD, this doc sheds light on a problem that desperately needs to be fixed." The Hunting Ground" documentary claims to show a shocking but accurate glimpse of sexual assault on American campuses. The police wouldn't even talk about charging him with statutory rape, like I said I was 13 years old and he was 2 weeks away from his 19th birthday, so even if I had been okay and wanted to have sex I wasn't old enough to consent. I wouldn't wish that upon my worst enemy. The police treating me like it was my fault was like getting raped all over again. When i reported it to the police their first question was "What did you do to turn him on?".Sadly, I am now 28 & if I was to ever get raped again I wouldn't report it. I was raped by my brothers best friend when I was 13 & he was 18. Im glad this documentary is getting people to talk about rape & sexual assault.
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Well, a few months later they had to do this follow up article because low and behold, the statistics WERE (& are) CORRECT. Huffington Post released an article a few weeks after Hunting Grounds premiered stating the statistics were "inflate". College-study-raped_n_7293068.html I've read 40-50 reviews that state the statistics in this documentary are wrong.