Tag: Sexual harassment

Dan Snyder calls allegations a ‘hit job’ and contradicts statement from Washington

Both Dan Snyder and the team’s statements on sexual harassment allegations are in stark contrast of eachother.

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After more disturbing allegations came out on Wednesday morning alleging that Washington team owner Dan Snyder was at the center of many sexual harassment incidents in the team’s building, the team’s PR staff released a statement condemning this, and saying that they take the matter very seriously and will do everything they can to make sure that the situation is dealt with the right way going forward.

Unfortunately, this directly contradicts the statement that Snyder released himself earlier in the day, calling the report from The Washington Post “a hit job” that are not based in facts and outdated by 10 to 20 years.

Whether you believe Snyder or not, the biggest problem is that the two separate entities, which are supposed to be working together on a matter of this magnitude of importance, had such a stark difference in messaging. While Washington said that they encouraged all employees with any information to come forward and report this, so that they can get to the bottom of the incidents, Snyder disregarded the allegation entirely and expressed frustration with a former cheerleader who didn’t bring the complaints to management.

There are undoubtedly going to be several more wrinkles in this story as the weeks and months go on, but it’s a terrible look for Washington and Snyder right off the bat.

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New report alleges Dan Snyder played major role in sexual harassment culture in Washington

A new report in Washington alleges that Snyder may have been at center of sexual harassment and abuse allegations.

A new ground-breaking story detailing sexual harassment and exploitation has come out in Washington, this time directly alleging that team owner Dan Snyder took part in some of the crude activities that he denied participating in earlier this offseason.

Separate from a report that 17 women had accused members of the Washington Football Team front office of sexual and verbal harassment, the Washington Post reported Wednesday that more than 100 current and former employees allege that Snyder has presided over an organization in which women say they have been marginalized, discriminated against and exploited during his 21 years as owner of the team.

Many of the women who came forward did so after seeing Snyder’s comments from the report last month in which he tried to distance himself from the situation and culture in the franchise, according to the Washington Post.

In the new report, The Post interviewed a former cheerleader in Washington who claims that Snyder directly humiliated her in 2004. Here is an excerpt from the report describing that situation:

One of the women interviewed for this story accused Snyder of directly humiliating her, the first such claim made to The Post. Former cheerleader Tiffany Bacon Scourby said Snyder approached her at a 2004 charity event at which the cheerleaders were performing and suggested she join his close friend in a hotel room so they “could get to know each other better.” Scourby’s account was supported by three friends she spoke to shortly afterward about the alleged incident, including the team’s former cheerleader director.

Another former employee, Brad Baker, who was a member of lead team broadcaster Larry Michael’s staff, told The Post that Michael instructed them to create a DVD containing graphic material from Washington’s cheerleader calendar shoot in 2008 at Snyder’s request.

The lewd outtakes were what Larry Michael, then the team’s lead broadcaster and a senior vice president, referred to as “the good bits” or “the good parts,” according to Brad Baker, a former member of Michael’s staff. Baker said in an interview that he was present when Michael told staffers to make the video for team owner Daniel Snyder.

It is unclear what will happen going forward, and whether or not the NFL will further look into this seemingly disastrous and destructive culture in Washington. This time around, however, it seems that Snyder will be more the target of investigation than he was in times past.

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Unnamed NFL files suit claiming sexual assault, harassment on plane

An unidentified NFL player has filed suit against United Airlines alleging he was sexually assaulted and harassed on a flight.

An unidentified NFL player has filed suit against United Airlines, alleging he was sexually harassed, assaulted and violated by a female passenger on a Feb. 10 flight from Los Angeles to Newark, NJ.

The civil suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday, seeks unspecified statutory and punitive damages from the airline. The player — and another male passenger — state the airline failed to properly respond to complaints, according to Bleacher Report.

Bleacher Report’s Master Tesfatsion reported the player, who’s listed in the complaint as John Doe 1, filed the suit in coordination with another male passenger (John Doe 2). They allege four complaints were made against a female passenger sitting in the same row for “unwanted sexual advances” before flight attendants moved her.

The men are suing United, the lawsuit says, because the airline refused to give them the name of the woman, the flight attendants, and potential witnesses and because the airline failed to follow policies to respond to sexual harassment and assault on the 10 flight.

The lawsuit alleges that United’s failure to have or enforce adequate policies and procedures for the prevention of and response to in-flight sexual assaults is a breach of its duty to protect and care for its passengers.

South Jersey Catholic school under fire for not seriously punishing athletes’ discussion of ‘raping’ a student

A Catholic high school in New Jersey is under siege or allegedly letting a pair of football players who discussed raping another student on Snapchat get off with a slap on the wrist.

A Catholic high school in Southern New Jersey has found itself in the eye of a storm after two of its athletes allegedly discussed “raping” a student over Snapchat but were not seriously punished for the exchange.

As reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, two football players for Paul VI High School in Haddonfield, N.J. allegedly discussed raping another student in a social media exchange on Sep. 26. Parents of the alleged target of the exchange complained to police, who investigated the incident but decided against charging the two teens.

That left any punishment up to officials at Paul VI, which decided the appropriate penalty was only what is outlined in the school handbook for harassment and a threat: Two hour-long detentions and 15 demerits. School officials added that both students were also forced to take anti-intimidation and sexual harassment education courses.

The two issues that have since been attacked by former Paul VI students on social media are A) whether the existing codified penalty for sexual harassment and threat violations is adequate, and B) whether two students openly discussing raping a younger student is a violation worthy or more than sexual harassment and a threat.

While the president of Paul VI, Michael Chambers, said he believed the two teenagers in question were still members of the school’s football team, he could not confirm that they were still active after the incident. Paul VI is currently 0-8 in the 2019 schedule.