RussellEbertHandball
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This is an example of the shit people still in charge and or working for the AFL integrity unit and we are all supposed to believe he and they have the utmost integrity. Remember the Dustin Martin Chopsticks incident?
History shows the AFL Integrity officer interviews turn into their own spin version and don't do anything for the aggrieved party. She has been placated. If not go report it to the cops. Sam has suffered from the AFL ******* up the Dustin Martin chopsticks "investigation." back in December 2015. They ****** it up then and now have gone to the other extreme. Oh and the rooting around at AFL House and executives having to be fired also has an impact on the need "to look good."
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/op...e/news-story/93ee2cf3f8465de7af8563e12ca21493
.... Once the case was in the public domain and it was clear that more significant action would be required the victim was visited on her own turf, by a seemingly empathetic integrity officer from the AFL along with a representative from Richmond. But at that meeting, the victim was given the impression the offence was not viewed as a criminal one. Then when they presented to the victim her statement from the meeting it is understood she was very unhappy about several “falsifications” that played down the extent of her terror and the seriousness of Martin’s actions. One AFL officer has since been accused by those close to the victim of essentially monstering her; lambasting her for leaking and talking to the media and repeatedly questioning her evidence saying there were contrary views about how far away Martin stood while he threatened to stab her and what he said. They insisted that she come to AFL House to give a statement.
At that meeting the AFL representatives were said to be rude. Tracey was questioned about whether she was sure she wanted to proceed with her claim that Martin threatened to stab her with a chopstick, and warned that if she did they would have to refer it to police and it could potentially end his career. She was also warned that he could be charged with offences carrying jail time of 10 years. They then reiterated the warnings, giving the victim the impression that they wanted her to water down her complaint. At no point was the victim encouraged to bring someone with her for support or legal advice. When the AFL eventually referred the matter to police they did not bother to advise Tracey that they had done so.
On social media an AFL staffer used his private twitter account to release the information instead of the AFL’ s official account which has more than 500,000 followers. But the most shameful conduct, apart from Martin’s alleged explosion of violence, was to come on Thursday evening when the AFL actively briefed the media against the victim once the case was out of its hands. One of the investigators who had been the most aggressive towards her told her “we’ve washed our hands of this’’. How is it that these investigators, who are well credentialed former police officers on significant salaries, could be so ham-fisted in their handling of the case?
An integrity officer is charged with protecting the integrity of the investigation but their chief concern appears to have been to protect the image of the game. At best the handling of this matter has been incompetent, at worst it has been malicious in intimidating a traumatised victim. The investigators’ insistence that the offences were minor coupled with pressure exerted on the victim to water down her allegation, with claims that it could land Martin in jail, are utterly unscrupulous. As soon as the allegations were made why wasn’t it determined that it was a criminal matter that should be immediately referred to police? Why did the league and the club spend four days needlessly distressing the victim and potentially contaminating the case before they eventually referred it to police?......
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/op...e/news-story/93ee2cf3f8465de7af8563e12ca21493
and what was the result after a 3 or 4 week investigation - Sweet F**k All because the AFL butchered the investigation and Dusty got a a suspended $5k fine from Richmond.
So Gil pissed his pants a bit in January 2016 and then had a real big wet patch after his mates Lethlean and Simkiss were caught rooting around and had to sack them in July 2017. Gil in January 2016 a month after the Dustin Martin Chopsticks investigation and the AFL Integrity Officer ****** up things by verbalizing the woman and the AFL was embarrassed and Richmond said nope he gets a $5k suspended fine. Gil said they will review ergo change the policies.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...spended-fine-by-richmond-20160114-gm5slp.html
... Also on Thursday, AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan announced a review of both the industry's "respect and responsibility policy" and approaches to dealing with allegations of intimidating, threatening or violent behaviour towards women. Victorian human rights and equal opportunity commissioner Kate Jenkins has agreed to oversee the review. "Our respect and responsibility policy was developed in 2005 and it is very timely to have it reviewed," McLachlan said. "We understand our responsibilities to continue to improve our approach to these issues, and I know we still have work to do to hold the respect and trust of the community. "We want to continue to change the culture of our game."
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...spended-fine-by-richmond-20160114-gm5slp.html
and if you read the policy released in August 2017 you ccan see they can get you for anything you do.
http://s.afl.com.au/staticfile/AFL Tenant/AFL/Files/AFL-Respect-and-Responsibility-Policy.pdf
Love the catch all phrase on the last page under PROCESS heading
* The AFL Head of Integrity can take action
at its own initiative where it believes
there has been conduct that breaches
the terms of the R and R policy and where
there is an absence of a complaint.
I reckon they will go after a player if he ****s around with someone and it goes public that he has been cheating on his missus.
Remember the phrase used in today's statement about sanctions see Patrick Keane's tweet not the BS on AFL.com.au mising up the statement and Ports response - Powell-Pepper engaged inappropriate behaviour that is unbecoming for an AFL player by being intoxicated in a public place and making inappropriate contact with a female.
If the AFL is consistent it is going to be inundated with plenty of examples of inappropriate behaviour whilst being intoxicated. How many weeks does DUI get you? Going to a brothel when drunk? Cheating on you wife whilst drunk? and on and on
History shows the AFL Integrity officer interviews turn into their own spin version and don't do anything for the aggrieved party. She has been placated. If not go report it to the cops. Sam has suffered from the AFL ******* up the Dustin Martin chopsticks "investigation." back in December 2015. They ****** it up then and now have gone to the other extreme. Oh and the rooting around at AFL House and executives having to be fired also has an impact on the need "to look good."
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/op...e/news-story/93ee2cf3f8465de7af8563e12ca21493
.... Once the case was in the public domain and it was clear that more significant action would be required the victim was visited on her own turf, by a seemingly empathetic integrity officer from the AFL along with a representative from Richmond. But at that meeting, the victim was given the impression the offence was not viewed as a criminal one. Then when they presented to the victim her statement from the meeting it is understood she was very unhappy about several “falsifications” that played down the extent of her terror and the seriousness of Martin’s actions. One AFL officer has since been accused by those close to the victim of essentially monstering her; lambasting her for leaking and talking to the media and repeatedly questioning her evidence saying there were contrary views about how far away Martin stood while he threatened to stab her and what he said. They insisted that she come to AFL House to give a statement.
At that meeting the AFL representatives were said to be rude. Tracey was questioned about whether she was sure she wanted to proceed with her claim that Martin threatened to stab her with a chopstick, and warned that if she did they would have to refer it to police and it could potentially end his career. She was also warned that he could be charged with offences carrying jail time of 10 years. They then reiterated the warnings, giving the victim the impression that they wanted her to water down her complaint. At no point was the victim encouraged to bring someone with her for support or legal advice. When the AFL eventually referred the matter to police they did not bother to advise Tracey that they had done so.
On social media an AFL staffer used his private twitter account to release the information instead of the AFL’ s official account which has more than 500,000 followers. But the most shameful conduct, apart from Martin’s alleged explosion of violence, was to come on Thursday evening when the AFL actively briefed the media against the victim once the case was out of its hands. One of the investigators who had been the most aggressive towards her told her “we’ve washed our hands of this’’. How is it that these investigators, who are well credentialed former police officers on significant salaries, could be so ham-fisted in their handling of the case?
An integrity officer is charged with protecting the integrity of the investigation but their chief concern appears to have been to protect the image of the game. At best the handling of this matter has been incompetent, at worst it has been malicious in intimidating a traumatised victim. The investigators’ insistence that the offences were minor coupled with pressure exerted on the victim to water down her allegation, with claims that it could land Martin in jail, are utterly unscrupulous. As soon as the allegations were made why wasn’t it determined that it was a criminal matter that should be immediately referred to police? Why did the league and the club spend four days needlessly distressing the victim and potentially contaminating the case before they eventually referred it to police?......
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/op...e/news-story/93ee2cf3f8465de7af8563e12ca21493
and what was the result after a 3 or 4 week investigation - Sweet F**k All because the AFL butchered the investigation and Dusty got a a suspended $5k fine from Richmond.
So Gil pissed his pants a bit in January 2016 and then had a real big wet patch after his mates Lethlean and Simkiss were caught rooting around and had to sack them in July 2017. Gil in January 2016 a month after the Dustin Martin Chopsticks investigation and the AFL Integrity Officer ****** up things by verbalizing the woman and the AFL was embarrassed and Richmond said nope he gets a $5k suspended fine. Gil said they will review ergo change the policies.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...spended-fine-by-richmond-20160114-gm5slp.html
... Also on Thursday, AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan announced a review of both the industry's "respect and responsibility policy" and approaches to dealing with allegations of intimidating, threatening or violent behaviour towards women. Victorian human rights and equal opportunity commissioner Kate Jenkins has agreed to oversee the review. "Our respect and responsibility policy was developed in 2005 and it is very timely to have it reviewed," McLachlan said. "We understand our responsibilities to continue to improve our approach to these issues, and I know we still have work to do to hold the respect and trust of the community. "We want to continue to change the culture of our game."
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...spended-fine-by-richmond-20160114-gm5slp.html
and if you read the policy released in August 2017 you ccan see they can get you for anything you do.
http://s.afl.com.au/staticfile/AFL Tenant/AFL/Files/AFL-Respect-and-Responsibility-Policy.pdf
Love the catch all phrase on the last page under PROCESS heading
* The AFL Head of Integrity can take action
at its own initiative where it believes
there has been conduct that breaches
the terms of the R and R policy and where
there is an absence of a complaint.
I reckon they will go after a player if he ****s around with someone and it goes public that he has been cheating on his missus.
Remember the phrase used in today's statement about sanctions see Patrick Keane's tweet not the BS on AFL.com.au mising up the statement and Ports response - Powell-Pepper engaged inappropriate behaviour that is unbecoming for an AFL player by being intoxicated in a public place and making inappropriate contact with a female.
If the AFL is consistent it is going to be inundated with plenty of examples of inappropriate behaviour whilst being intoxicated. How many weeks does DUI get you? Going to a brothel when drunk? Cheating on you wife whilst drunk? and on and on
