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A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a homemade cinder block cell at a home in southern Oregon likely saved other women from a similar fate, authorities said, by alerting them to a man they now suspect in sexual assaults in at least four more states.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What cops dont want to talk about is this guy (and others) get victims by pretending to be cops.

Because even real cops don't follow procedure and will kill people for not following nonsensical orders, it's really easy for criminals to just yell "police" and victims know even if it's legitimately a cop, they may be murdered for not doing everything the person claiming to be a cop orders them to do.

Even the rape after "arrest", that's something cops are legally allowed to do in a lot of states still. They can just claim it's consensual even when the women is being detained and handcuffed, and then it's the cops word against their victim.

When cops act like criminals, it's impossible to know if someone is a cop and also a criminal, or just a criminal pretending to be a cop.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

You're correct and it's only get worse. A lot if not most of our police force are made up of fascist.

They even recruiting that way. There is terrifying video of police recruiters teaching that civilians should be treated as enemy combats.

And with Atlanta building that "cop city" were police will be trained in urban combat and full on war against us civilians we are totally fucked as a society.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Also, sex work is real work. If the same people trying to keep it illegal are paying for it, there's no excuse to continue leaving sex workers out to fend for themselves.

[–] Blackbeard@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Shit like this is just a reminder of how absolutely batshit insane cops like this are when they demand unquestioning acquiescence. People are right to take their own safety into account when approached by someone claiming to be an officer, because even legitimate officers can (and do) trample people's rights EVERY. SINGLE. DAY in this country, and they've made the case loud and clear that no one will protect us but ourselves. They should BEGIN their training with a course about the horrific situations innocent people have had to endure as a result of unquestioning obedience to a real or purported LEO, and only then start to wrestle with the hefty responsibility that comes with exerting that kind of authority.

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

“This woman was kidnapped, chained, sexually assaulted, and locked in a cinderblock cell,” Stephanie Shark, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Portland field office, said in a news release. “Police say she beat the door with her hands until they were bloody in order to break free. Her quick thinking and will to survive may have saved other women from a similar nightmare.”

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 19 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a homemade cinder block cell at a home in southern Oregon likely saved other women from a similar fate, authorities said, by alerting them to a man they now suspect in sexual assaults in at least four more states.

Negasi Zuberi posed as an undercover police officer when he kidnapped the woman in Seattle, drove hundreds of miles to his home in Klamath Falls and locked her in the garage cell until she bloodied her hands breaking the door to escape, the FBI said Wednesday.

“This woman was kidnapped, chained, sexually assaulted, and locked in a cinderblock cell,” Stephanie Shark, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Portland field office, said in a news release.

A grand jury in Portland on Wednesday returned an indictment charging Zuberi with interstate kidnapping and transporting an individual across state lines with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.

According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Oregon, Zuberi solicited the woman, identified only as Adult Victim 1, in the early-morning hours of July 15 to engage in prostitution along Aurora Avenue in Seattle, an area known for sex work.


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[–] ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Another example of why sex work should be legal, so that people who do it can have more protection from freaks like this guy.

[–] girlfreddy@mastodon.social -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@MicroWave

"The Klamath Falls rental home where Zuberi allegedly took the woman is owned by the city’s mayor, Carol Westfall, and her husband, Kevin, according to property records.

Court records show that after Zuberi’s arrest, the couple had him evicted."

Nice mayor. Zuberi is in jail so they didn't evict him ... they evicted his wife and child.

Carol & Kevin Westfall should be forced to allow the wife and child back into the rental.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The wife is likely either an accomplice and should also be in jail, or another victim and remaining in that house would be traumatizing. You don't just have secret prisons in your garage without others noticing that live in the same house.

[–] girlfreddy@mastodon.social -4 points 1 year ago

@ryathal

The wife is not necessarily an accomplice. She hasn't been charged and is not in jail.

Please don't start rumours without evidence.