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Ellie Flynn

Abused by the Police? 2019

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During an arrest in 2017, teenager Anna Chambers was raped by two NYPD cops. who claimed she consented. Anna's story is far from the only one in the USA. Ellie Flynn investigates the increasing number of similar events, explores the true scale of sexual misconduct cases against police officers across the USA, and discovers a loophole in some state laws that may allow officers to avoid getting charged for sexual assault and claim sex acts as consensual.

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