Cops Accused Of Raping A Teen Say Her “Provocative” Selfies Prove She’s Not A “Depressed Victim”

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Cops Accused Of Raping A Teen Say Her “Provocative” Selfies Prove She’s Not A “Depressed Victim”

October 28th, 2017

Awake Goy

A Brooklyn teen who has accused two NYPD officers of sexual assault is now having her credibility “smeared,” her lawyer told BuzzFeed News, after a report the police were citing her social media use to deny her claims.

The 18-year-old from Brooklyn, who goes by the pseudonym Anna Chambers on social media, has alleged that she was sexually assaulted by two undercover cops in an unmarked police van last month. She and her lawyer are now calling for charges to be laid.

Lawyers for accused Officers Richard Hall and Eddie Martins have cited Chambers’ “provocative ‘selfies’” and other social media posts as an indication she was not assaulted, according to a letter the attorneys wrote to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office that was obtained by the New York Post.

“This behavior is unprecedented for a depressed victim of a vicious rape,” lawyers John Arlia and Mark Bederow reportedly wrote of Chambers’ online activity.

The lawyers requested that prosecutors “further investigate Chambers’ dubious claim before you ask the grand jury to return an indictment against Martins and Hall.”

Bederow, one of the lawyers representing the accused officers, declined to comment to BuzzFeed News “on anyone’s characterization based on the Post article,” but “caution[ed] people not to assume the accuracy of what happened simply upon unchallenged accusations.”

Chambers referred a request for comment to her lawyer, Michael David, who called the officers’ attempts to “smear” his client “disgusting.”

“She’s a teenager; teenagers post on social media all the time,” said David. “And what is a rape victim supposed to do? She’s not supposed to post on social media?”

“Whatever photos she puts up…that doesn’t make [her] into a bad person that’s ‘asking for it,’” said David. “It doesn’t change what happened to her.”

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