Harvey Weinstein accuser says rape conviction overturn is ‘devastating but unsurprising’

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00:00 A devastating but unsurprising miscarriage of justice.

00:04 The criminal justice system is not set up to be supportive of survivors and it's a huge problem

00:12 and one that many people are trying to address through legislation and through activism.

00:16 But I just want to remind people that this overturning of this verdict does not erase

00:21 his guilt and does not mean that anyone who came forward was not telling the truth or that what

00:28 they did wasn't valuable. It's just a glitch in the system. It's a flaw with the way that our

00:33 criminal justice system currently works and we have to keep fighting against it.

00:37 And what it might mean though is with the retrial that victims then have to go through

00:42 it all again don't they which will be traumatic for them.

00:44 Deeply re-traumatising. The entire process is very very very difficult and it makes me want to never

00:51 hear anyone ever again say well why don't people just report to the police because this is why.

00:57 The system is broken and it's a very difficult process to go through and nobody should feel

01:01 like they have to put themselves through this when the system isn't there to support them.