This video comes with a trigger warning. As some of you may have heard, there’s been a lot of controversy over the alleged rape of an unnamed 16-year-old high school girl in the football-crazed town of Steubenville, Ohio. At issue is a prevailing culture of protection around the football players who are said to have perpetrated the crime. Steubenville High School teammates Ma’lik Richmond and Trent Mays were two of the town’s star players, and now they’re off the team, thanks to the rape allegations and upcoming case. But while Richmond and Mays are believed to be the main perpetrators of the physical crime, it’s believed that other teammates of theirs were also complicit in passing around video and photographic evidence of the incident. Keep reading »
