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beep@piefed.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours ago

White Landlord, a Retired Cop, Demanded Sex from Black Woman Tenant to Stop Eviction in Ohio

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White Landlord, a Retired Cop, Demanded Sex from Black Woman Tenant to Stop Eviction in Ohio

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beep@piefed.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours ago
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The conviction earlier this week of a former landlord in Columbus, Ohio, who sexually harassed a Black female tenant and coerced her into sexual favors in exchange for rent highlights the larger trend of sexual housing harassment against women of color.    Kevin Baker, 73, was sentenced to two years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty […]

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/inforeport/p/1299762/white-landlord-a-retired-cop-demanded-sex-from-black-woman-tenant-to-stop-eviction-in-oh

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  • inari@piefed.zip
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    Truly ACAB

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    Hmmm. So you KNOW this ain’t his first time doing this. I’ll bet he did this AS a cop.

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    coerced her into sexual favors

    Isn’t their a word for that?

    third-degree felony to intimidation.

    No, no, that’s not it.

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    It’s always the people you most expect.

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    In the Baker case, he threatened the victim if she ever reported him according to the Muskingum Prosecutors Office. “I’m a retired cop,” he said. “I got pull in this town. If you don’t do what I say I’m [not] cancelling this eviction.”

    He should be forced to wear his own quote in writing on his prison uniform for his 2 year sentence.

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      Ex cop in for violence toward women and his pictures right there on the article. Believe me, he doesn’t need to wear it on his shirt.

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      “I got pull in this town”. That’s rich. That would indeed be a great quote to put on his prison garb. The other inmates deserve to know about his pull.

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      I’m not generally in favor of rape, especially prison rape, but I’d love to see this bitch squeal.

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        He’s going to jail just in time to play ‘Hide the Turkey Leg’ in jail.

        It’s a VERY popular game in county lockup and minimum security prisons.

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    I feel like this is equally fucked up regardless of race.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      Race is important here because it adds yet another power dynamic to abuse

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      The identity of the female victim was not released. A statement released by Muskingum County’s Prosecutor’s Office shows that Baker used to make racist comments about her being Black and racial slurs like the N-word to refer to the victim.

      Comprehensive research on sexual harassment in housing is sparse. In one 2008 Georgia State University study found that 68% of the reported victims were Black while virtually all of the perpetrators were White men. The study’s author, Dr. Griff Tester, analyzed 137 housing sexual harassment complaints made to the Ohio Civil Rights Commission between 1990 and 2003.

      it is about race though.

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      I mean landlord and cop… two of the most abusive job titles… Does a little rape.

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      Yeah, I just know he would also do this to a white woman.

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    What, a pervy former cop with delusions of entitlement? Shocking…

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    Give that old man a break, he probably just forgot that he wasn’t a cop any longer.

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    Dad? This isn’t meant to be funny. After I had went no contact with my dad I found out he had been doing this for years. One of the most racist bigots you would have ever met.

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    He pleaded guilty?? That’s a new one!

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      That’s why it’s not rape. They probably offered him a deal and his lawyer made him take it.

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      Not really. Prosecutors offer plea deals all the time.

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      Yeah, weird. It’s as if he expects a pardon from whatever corrupt slice of relevant Ohio government.

      I doubt he even thinks he did anything wrong.

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