Does she agree? What was the final result of the "Ross gang rape" case that sensationalized the NBA 5 years ago?

On the morning of August 27, 2013, Jane-Doe woke up on the bed in her apartment room. She found that the skirt had been pushed to her neck, her body was covered with lubricant, the bed was messy, the sheets were covered with wet marks, and she couldn't tell whether it was lubricant or other liquid. Some used condoms were thrown beside the bed.

We don’t know what Jane Doe looks like, how old she is, what kind of work she does, what kind of circle her family and friends belong to, we don’t know her love and marriage, we don’t even know Her real name. Two years after the morning she got up from bed, on August 26, 2015, a civil lawsuit was submitted to the court. Doe accused someone of gang-raping him. For the protection of the plaintiff, she was anonymous, “Jane "Doe" is just like "1818 Golden Eye Ms. Zheng".

In this case, there are three defendants and three good friends named Randall Hampton, Ryan Allen and Derrick Rose.

During the NBA shutdown in 2011, Shinco MVP Rose and Doe met in a club. After that, the two formed a "non-exclusive relationship". This is a unified written statement between the two parties after the court. A more secular interpretation of this relationship. It can be roughly understood as a "friend of artillery". This relationship has been maintained for at least 3 years. According to Doe, the two met 12 times in 2011, 10 times in 2012, and 5 times in 2013, for a total of 27 times.

During this period, in October 2012, Rose’s son Derek Jr. was born. The child’s mother was not Jane, but Mikha Reich. She and Rose held a private engagement ceremony in 2010, but they broke up in 2013. According to the description of the lace website MTO, this is a cliche story of catching rape in bed. Rose is the one caught, and it is not known whether the other is Doe or not.

Compared with the identity of Reich Rose’s public girlfriend, Doe and Rose’s 27-time relationship appears to be more secretive. The night in August 2013 seemed clear and unclear.

On the evening of August 26, 2013, Rose invited Doe and her girlfriend Jessica Glover to play in their rented house in Beverly Hills. The car that Rose sent to pick them up went the wrong way and was three hours late. While waiting for the car, Doe and Glover drank some vodka. While in the car, Doe pours a small drink by himself. When they arrived at Ross’s residence, besides the three older boys, there were dragons waiting for them. Quills.

At the party in Rose’s residence, it was still controversial whether the five men and women had sex. Glover said no, but Rose said that Doe had brought a sex belt and had some "beautiful things" with Allen in the pool. Of course, this is not the focus of the dispute between the two parties in court. The point is that Glover said Doe was "very obviously drunk", and she even burned her hand because she took a stone from the fire pit.

According to Glover, Rose’s friend Allen asked him to take off his clothes at the time. The two quarreled after unanswered. Glover decided to leave the party and she did not leave her friend behind. “I know Doe is drunk. Great, I would never leave her there alone. I don’t think I’m safe, and of course I don’t think it’s safe to leave her alone.”

So Glover called a taxi to leave, she drove Doe back to her own apartment and left. After returning to the apartment, Doe sent a text message to Rose, saying that he "needs him", Rose said to let his brother pick her back, but Doe insisted that as long as Rose came to himself.

So Rose set off, but not alone, but with his two good brothers.

On the way, Allen and Hampton did not ask, nor did Rose. Two years later Rose told the judge and the trial team very sincerely in court: "As a man, you know."

"Yes, I mean we are all men. You know. You don't need to say more about what to do when you leave for someone else's house at 1 am."

From 2:05 a.m. to 2:53 a.m., Rose and Allen made seven calls to Doe and sent three text messages. At 2:27, Rose sent out "Are you there?" At 2:50, Allen sent a text message saying "We're here." 2 minutes later, Allen sent another: "You fucking got up."

no respond. no respond. no respond.

But the three of Ross still found a way to enter Doe's apartment.

According to Doe, this is because Rose and the others found that the apartment door was not closed, so they entered the room where Doe rarely locks the door.

But in Rose's words, this approach was that Doe finally woke up and opened the door to welcome three of them. Rose said that he was the last person to enter Doe's room. "When I first entered, she was lying on the bed and masturbating with a vibrator and asked me to close the door."

The lawyer asked Rose about the color of the vibrator, and Rose replied: "I look like pink."

The lawyer found the flaw: "Didn't you say that you were color blind before?"

Rose calmly said: "I am red-brown blind, and I can distinguish pink."

So Rose continued to present the case. As soon as he walked to the bed, Doe grabbed him and started to play with his genitals. "Of course I reacted. I put on a condom and began to have a relationship."

The American lawyer asked very carefully: "How long did you last?"

Rose didn't brag, nor did he belittle himself, and obviously there are no middle-aged greasy men in his phone, he answered frankly: "I don't remember, who would time this kind of thing?"

When asked if Doe resisted, Rose said: "No, she was calm and relaxed afterwards."

Rose also intimately provided some details to the jury, saying that he took away the used condoms after the fact, "I learned this when I was training for rookies in the NBA."

How calm and relaxed Doe was afterwards, she herself said that she had been fragmented and couldn't remember at all. After getting up, she went to work first, and then discussed the details with her roommate after get off work. She asked her roommate, "Those guys were here last night?" The roommate said yes, and Doe said "ok".

Then, Doe texted Rose, asking for Glover to call a car and buy his own sex belt for a total of 269 dollars, which was really calm and relaxing. Only a few days later, Doe told her roommate that she had been gang-raped. She said that there were blood stains on her blanket and a few condoms. "I was raped."

On August 30, Doe sent a text message to Rose: "Your behavior made me lose trust in you. I learned your true purpose that night. This seriously hurt my worldview and destroyed the innocence in my heart. On the one hand. My hand is severely burned and I missed an important day at work. If you don’t talk, it’s acquiescence. I have your friend’s phone number and taxi license plate number. I want you to give me an explanation right away so that I can stop thinking about it. To end this matter."

6 minutes later, Rose replied to the text message: "I'm just busy. I swear I always keep you in my heart."

Rose did take Doe to heart, more than that night.

When interacting with Doe, Rose once bought a MacBook for Doe, just to let her masturbate to herself on the chat software. Doe said that he couldn't do it, at best he could only get naked, and Rose was very angry. After a year and a half of their relationship, Rose began to demand Doe group p, whether it was Rose taking the brothers to fight Doe or letting Rose single out the Doe sisters, they were all rejected by Doe-until August 27 In the wee hours of the morning, the long-awaited thing Rose finally happened.

So in the court, during that turn of the relationship, whether Doe was sober and agreed became the focus of the debate between the two sides. The lawyer asked Rose if he understood the meaning of the word "consent". Rose's answer was subtle:

"I don't know. Please enlighten me."

Obviously, the Ross lawyers have a lot of experience in dealing with this kind of celebrity sexual assault. They hardly need to prove the word "agree" enough. The reason is very simple, because Doe can't prove that he "disagrees."

Of course, it was the classic "slut humiliation" at the beginning, which was used in the Kobe case more than a decade ago. The Ross lawyers asked for Doe’s personal information to be disclosed. They proved that Doe had a large number of sexually suggestive photos on social media. This kind of appeal ultimately hopes to point to only one classic theory: "She asked for it." Elsewhere, This theory can be translated as "she seduce me". This kind of rape mentality is like Rose’s confession saying, “What else can I do at 1 o’clock in the morning?” All the clues in their minds are treated as sexual hints, and all skirts that are an inch higher than the knee are signs of pleasure. All the girls who enter your room alone are ready to have sex with you.

The "non-exclusive relationship" that Doe actually established with Rose added a bargaining chip to this slut identification.

Of course, the most typical fallacy in this kind of "rape case" was immediately rejected by the judge as "shitness" and insisted on anonymity to protect the plaintiff.

The next evidence from the Ross lawyers is that after Doe arrived home that night, he exchanged text messages with Ross to ask Ross to come over, "even the punctuation marks were used very accurately." This reasoned that she was not in a drunk state, even though Doe was texting. Only Rose is the only one in the middle, but once the "drunken" state is broken, Doe has repeatedly rejected the group P and it is difficult to be accepted, "She has no evidence, but she can cry."

In the public opinion, there are some familiar arguments. Robert's remarks from a sports website deserve to be quoted in full:

"First, she did not go to the police, she chose to sue Rose. Second, she waited two years before doing so. I can understand that for any traumatic event, it takes time to become strong enough to tell it. , But if someone rapes you, and you really want them to pay for their crimes, why don't you want them to go to jail?"

Of course, in addition to all these public opinions and inferences, the Ross Lawyers still have great tricks. In their statement, they described Doe as a slut, a and those gold-worshiping women who stick to NBA stars, but also An important trick, a more politically correct trick than "sexism" was put on the table, where no one dared to ignore this correctness:

"The media just like to see a black man being brought down."

Obviously, not every media likes this, or that not all media are only keen on political correctness. For many media who have no intention of getting involved in politics, the most important job is of course to give such a good story a powerful enough title. . The famous lace website TMZ is best at this and can be used as a model here. One of their titles is: "Derrick Rose admits to gathering fornication...He is crazy about sex toys."

In October 2016, under the verdict of a jury composed of 6 women and 2 men, Rose and his two brothers were found not responsible and did not need to compensate the plaintiff. In the end, this case did not even enter into the discussion of criminal offences. category.

Doe didn’t get anything except “severe anxiety, nervousness, and nervousness” and extra pimples on his face, hair and eyelashes that fell on the floor, and a patch from the Ross lawyers’ team: “A liar can entangle The three gentlemen have been so long, it's incredible."

And Ross and his brothers didn’t lose anything. They didn’t need to pay either of Doe’s US$6 million in compensation and US$15.5 million in punitive damages. Adidas announced in a few minutes after the verdict: “We and Ross The partnership has never changed."

After the case is closed, you see a rare scene in the court: a close photo of the jury members and the defendant in the gang rape case. In the photo, Rose and the jurors hugged together, smiling like a flower. Outside the photo, the presiding judge Fitzgerald offered Rose his most sincere blessings, "Mr. Rose, I wish you and your career every success. Except when the Knicks met the Lakers."

One year after the Rose case was closed, the me too movement started in the United States.

Two years after the Rose case was closed, Rose, who came to the Timberwolves, scored 50 points. At the end of the game, the whole audience was boiling. Everyone was moved by what happened on the court. The teammates surrounded Rose. People saw the vicissitudes of life, the former MVP holding the ball in his hands, with tears in his eyes. The narrator spoke in a high tone for 45 seconds. In the last 15 seconds, the voice of the Fox Sports commentary Jim Peterson came out: "He had a lot of trouble off the court. I am not a judge or a jury. According to my opinion, Knowing that he was not convicted of any crime...Of course, he played very hard!"

Jim's voice quickly disappeared. Over the years, similar voices will always be heard repeatedly, because someone will remember and someone will talk about it, but in the end they all gradually dim as the timeline advances mercilessly, and then they are lost. Overwhelmed by hustle and bustle and cheers. As viewers, we are all used to this, we are used to a thing that can be so clear and recognizable at the same time, yet so vague.

Five years after the Rose case was closed...