With more accusers of Dave Meinert, stigma of sexual assault may be decreasing
If you've walked around Capitol Hill lately, you might have seen large signs on telephone poles.
BOYCOTT LOST LAKE CAFE, they say - with a screenshot of an article about rape accusations against cafe owner Dave Meinert.
That article is by KUOW's Sydney Brownstone, who's been following the story and published a second piece this morning. She joined Bill Radke to talk about the accusations against Meinert and the way stigma about sexual assault might be changing in the wake of the #metoo movement.
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Bill Radke
Host
Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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Sydney Brownstone
Reporter, Lost Patients
Sydney Brownstone is an investigative reporter at The Seattle Times. She previously covered homelessness in Seattle and was a Livingston Award finalist for her work on the podcast Outsiders. Brownstone hails from the world of alt-weeklies, where her reporting on sexual assault and sex work prompted the Washington Attorney General’s first-ever consumer protection lawsuit on behalf of sex workers.
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