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With more accusers of Dave Meinert, stigma of sexual assault may be decreasing

caption: A poster attached to a telephone pole shows KUOW's original story on Tuesday, August 7, 2018, near the intersection of East Olive Way and Summit Avenue East in Seattle.
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A poster attached to a telephone pole shows KUOW's original story on Tuesday, August 7, 2018, near the intersection of East Olive Way and Summit Avenue East in Seattle.
KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer

If you've walked around Capitol Hill lately, you might have seen large signs on telephone poles.

BOYCOTT LOST LAKE CAFE, they say - with a screenshot of an article about rape accusations against cafe owner Dave Meinert.

That article is by KUOW's Sydney Brownstone, who's been following the story and published a second piece this morning. She joined Bill Radke to talk about the accusations against Meinert and the way stigma about sexual assault might be changing in the wake of the #metoo movement.

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