UF Linebacker Saves Girl From Being Raped Behind A Bar Dumpster
ESPN – A University of Florida football player assisted in stopping a rape that was happening behind a Gainesville restaurant early Thursday morning, according to police reports.
Cristian Garcia, a junior linebacker for the Florida Gators who played in one game last season, said he was working security at 101 Cantina when he and his co-worker saw the rapist and the woman behind the bar’s Dumpster.
“I was taking out the garbage, and I saw the man pressing the woman up against the Dumpster. At first the guy said she was his girlfriend, but about five seconds later I realized the girl was unconscious,” Garcia told GatorSports.com. “I turned around and pulled the guy by the shoulder and said, ‘Get off.’ That pretty much ended the situation then. He was intoxicated and attempted to throw some punches, but he slipped and busted his face on the wall.”
The rape was captured on video by another one of the witnesses. According to the Gainesville police report, the woman was unable to walk on her own, couldn’t keep her eyes open and had difficulty speaking.
“I hold strong moral values and I don’t think anyone should be taken advantage of in that kind of way,” Garcia told local television station WTLV. “The girl was basically unconscious, so I knew there was no way she could be giving consent.”
Gainesville police arrested 34-year-old Christopher Shaw and charged him with sexual battery.
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There are two main story lines for college football this off season: schools who have completely failed the handling of, or actively covered up, sexual assaults by athletes on campus, and how many SEC players can get arrested. Every front page of a CFB site – another police report leaking out from Baylor PD, another mugshot of an SEC player with bloodshot eyes locked up for doing something stupid.
So you could say it’s refreshing to see a story about a UF player jumping in and stopping a rape that he stumbled on during a late shift at work. Fixing the rapist’s face up a little bit then pinning him down until the cops could come.
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“I was taking out the garbage, and I saw the man pressing the woman up against the Dumpster. At first the guy said she was his girlfriend, but about five seconds later I realized the girl was unconscious,” Garcia told GatorSports.com. “I turned around and pulled the guy by the shoulder and said, ‘Get off.’ That pretty much ended the situation then. He was intoxicated and attempted to throw some punches, but he slipped and busted his face on the wall.”
He slipped and busted his face on the wall. Riiiight. I hope that 1, the cops believe that (not that I think they would care anyway), and 2, that you’re saying it to us with a little wink and a nudge. Fuck this guy.
Only thing you did wrong in this situation was not stuff him in that dumpster he was attacking the girl behind. And his scumbag friends.
Garcia also told WTLV that the man’s friends were watching the assault take place and did nothing to help.
When the woman regained consciousness at a hospital several hours later, she told police she didn’t know Shaw and had not consented to have sex with him, according to the police report.
Cristian Garcia, new favorite college player.