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

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
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.

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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