The comments on that article are horrendous. So many people defending the creep.
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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I have not yet come across a news site with sane takes in the comments
Not sure why this news page on Facebook and Twitter seems to attract the worse comments
It’s refreshing to hear how the coworkers quickly acted well, and the the police also took action!
I can imagine how unjust and humiliating it must feel for the reporter. At least there is some retribution.
Right? Unfortunately this sort of crap happens to female reporters all the time and they don't usually feel like they can stop reporting to deal with what is essentially an assault. Good job anchor person for calling it out and reassuring her that she had nothing to apologize for.
Good that she got to call the guy out!
Takes some courage to do that, nevermind on live tv. Props to the coworker too, who made sure to encourage her!
That cheeky fucker just unleashed a shitstorm of biblical proportions on himself.
He got arrested at least
And he will be sentenced. I doubt he will see prison, probably just probation, but with video evidence like that it should be a quick case.
Between this and the soccer event, I feel like the Spanish authorities will want to make things especially difficult for this guy. If for no other reason than to appear to the world that they are not a sexist country.
No, I don't think so. Spanish authorities are usually not moved by media circuses like this and don't have to prove anything to the world. Things like this happen all the time everywhere, just google 'guy kisses reporter' or similar. It's not a Spanish thing. And regarding Spain I found similar case from couple years ago where a guy kissed a reported and was sentenced to a fine. They didn't need World Cup shit storm to apply the law back then and they will simply apply the law in this case.
I don't follow Spanish media, but it seemed like this article/video made a point of showing the guy in handcuffs. That appears like someone is trying to make point.
Edit: Actually, I don't see the video in this article, but there was a video that showed the groping event and then ended with the guy in handcuffs, being escorted by Spanish police.
The video was linked in a different post: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/14/spanish-police-arrest-man-for-groping-reporter-isa-balado-while-live-on-air?traffic_source=rss
They showed the guy in handcuffs because he was arrested. What's your point? I said he will be convicted, just not because of the extra media attention this is getting now.
My point is that the media is drawing extra attention to his arrest - as a direct result of what happened. As opposed to any other guy that might get arrested for groping and nothing is mentioned about it.
For any young aspiring alcoholics watching, that dude is what day drinking looks like after college. Don’t let that be you
Why is "groped" in quotes?
From the article:
A Spanish TV journalist was allegedly groped live on air by a member of the public
"Allegedly groped" it looks pretty obvious in the video, but the guy seems to deny having touched her, so I suppose they're waiting for a court to decide, before saying anything for certain.
I couldn't load the video, most likely due to pihole/adblocker, but from the pictures it looked like her lower back? How high up does her ass go?
Counterpoint: why tf is he putting his hands on her, a total stranger doing her job, at all?
In the video it looks like her ass. But either way the dude shouldn't be touching her. He claims he didn't touch her at all.