Our efforts included arranging an independent investigation by a former Florida Supreme Court justice. Kinsman and to initiate an impartial, independent Title IX investigation of her allegations against Mr. Had FSU been given the opportunity to reply, we would have made it clear the University went to extraordinary lengths to support Ms. Kinsman would be going public with her version of the story. They sent a generic email asking for comment about sexual assault but failed to disclose that FSU would be a target of criticism and withheld the fact that Ms. The first time the University was contacted by the filmmakers was December 18 - nearly three months after they had submitted the film to the Sundance Film Festival and it was scheduled for its artistic premiere. Kinsman has filed a lawsuit against the University over the case. This distorted presentation is all the more egregious in light of the fact Ms. This provides the viewing public with an incomplete and erroneous view of what the University did to investigate Ms. The filmmakers interviewed Erica Kinsman, but no one representing Florida State. We want to make you aware that “The Hunting Ground,” a film about campus sexual assaults that debuted in Los Angeles and New York City Thursday, is seriously lacking in credibility and presents a one-sided view of Florida State’s actions in the Jameis Winston case. Below is the opening letter the FSU president issued to students, and below that is Dick’s response, supplied by the distributor. Dick, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker who previously directed The Invisible War about rape in the military, has fired right back. Winston is just part of a tapestry of alarming charges made in the film, including that more than 100,000 college students will be sexually assaulted in the coming year, and that from 1996 to 2013, 259 sexual assaults were reported at Stanford and only one student was expelled.įSU president John Thrasher is taking exception to what he is calling a one-sided treatment of how the university handled the Winston case, and he said there is no one in the film presenting the school’s side. He has maintained his innocence she is interviewed and said she dropped out of school after being ostracized for filing charges. Whether you choose to believe Kinsman or Winston is up to you.The film, which was called “galvanic and compelling” in a Sundance review by our sister publication Variety, interviews the woman who accused the football star of rape. From a legal standpoint, he is pretty much off the hook.
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Kinsman later filed this lawsuit because of it.Ĭharges have been dropped against Winston and he was also cleared in his FSU Code of Conduct hearing.
She said she went to a hospital and had a rape kit administered, but the results were not tested until months later.Īs we know, Kinsman previously claimed that Tallahassee Police had warned her against pursuing charges in a “football town.” She reiterated that in the documentary.
She said he dressed her and told her it was time to leave after he was done.Īfter that, Kinsman said she agreed to let Winston drive her home on his scooter but had him let her off at an intersection so he wouldn’t know where she lived. “He pushed his hand over my face and pushed my face to the floor,” she said, recalling the floor was tile. She said the roommate, who she does not identify, pleaded with Winston to stop and noted Klinsman was saying “no.” That’s when Kinsman said Winston picked her up and took her to the bathroom, where the door did lock. “He was on top of me and I couldn’t really breathe,” Kinsman says, noting Winston’s roommate disrupted Winston’s first attempt when he entered his bedroom because the door didn’t lock. She claims Winston then raped her at his apartment. She said that leaving in a cab with the men was “uncharacteristic” behavior for her. Kinsman said the next thing she remembers was ending up in a cab with Winston and two other men. “I’m totally certain something was in that drink,” she said. Kinsman is convinced the drink was spiked. In addition to maintaining that she was raped, Erica Kinsman also suspects she was drugged.Īccording to Marissa Payne of The Washington Post, Kinsman said in the documentary that she recalls taking a shot with Winston at Potbelly’s nightclub in Tallahassee after the Florida State quarterback pretended to be her boyfriend to get another guy to stop bothering her. The woman who accused Jameis Winston of rape more than two years ago revealed her identity in a new documentary called “The Hunting Ground,” which dives into the issue of sexual assault on college campuses.