Which would be completely unbelievable if there wasn't security footage of the whole thing!
> Summers also sued McDonald's and was awarded $1 million in punitive damages and $100,000 in compensatory damages.
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3688563
> Nix was sentenced in March, 2006 to five years in prison.
> He pleaded guilty to sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, and unlawful imprisonment.
> Donna Summers was fired after the incident.
> She was charged with unlawful imprisonment, and was sentenced to probation after entering an Alford plea — a type of guilty plea in which a person does not admit guilt, but acknowledges the evidence is sufficient for a conviction.
> She broke off her engagement to Nix after viewing the surveillance tapes.
> Summers also sued McDonald's and was awarded $1 million in punitive damages and $100,000 in compensatory damages.
> After two hours of deliberations, Stewart was found not guilty on all charges.
Justice is a funny thing, isn't it?
>"Everything is by the book," he explained. "This is how you serve it. This is exactly how you do it. You follow the book — you're OK. I believe he picked fast food restaurants because he knew, once you got them away from that book, once it was something outside the manual or the procedures, they would be lost."
This woman should be in jail, criminal negligence is a thing.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.985...
The real life story is pretty sickening: an ~8 hour ordeal starting with the CDP saying "we think you have drugs" and forcibly sending an 18 year old girl to the hospital for an x-ray, in handcuffs, where she is instead invasively strip searched (with the CDP and hospital staff in audience). Nothing is found so they eventually let her go.
The court basically ruled that:
- The CDP did its job "correctly". They just need to think you did something wrong to detain you and force you to accept medical interventions.
- This was the wrong way to sue: the plaintiff must seek state-law tort action against the doctor for malpractice.
I can only hope that additional legal remediation brought some kind of justice and relief. Maybe this is yet another example of how contorted US law practice can be.
I'm not holding my breath.
Someone tried to scam me once by taking over the Instagram account of a hotel and baiting me with a discount. That by itself is not a problem, it could be a legit offer. Their intentions became obvious when I randomly got a message with a 2 factor code and they asked me for the number.
Criminals must necessarily violate social rules in order to carry out their crimes. A robber on the street must close the distance against the victim in order to get in attack range. In my case, the unacceptable behavior was asking me about information that was not only secret but also useless to anyone but me. Recognizing these violations of social norms and enforcing firm boundaries is necessary to defend against these people. People who don't understand what a 2 factor code is will not recognize that it is unacceptable behavior for another person to ask for one and will see no problem with revealing the secret.
Once you've decided something is true, it's easy to dismiss all sorts of signals that maybe it isn't.
But no one likes to think about this version of confirmation bias/the bias you were talking about, somehow.
There's also some mental concept where people already got started or went so far, and subconsciously don't want to believe they've been had, so keep going. I'm sure there's a name for it, I can't be bothered to look up. It's why romance scams are so common, and also why that McDonald's manager undressed that employee, for example. Fascinating, but sad.