Pearl - Men Who Have BEATEN False Allegations

00:00:00.000 white men just always see the positive the woman in me can never see that like i would kill a 0.99

00:00:06.280 and murder what's going on guys welcome to my reaction series uh today we are reacting to men 0.98

00:00:11.540 that were falsely accused and uh beat the case so let's let's watch bellevue police chief steve

00:00:17.640 mylette is speaking publicly now for the first time since he was falsely accused of sexual assault

00:00:22.960 mylette was reinstated to his job this week after a three-month investigation by bothell police

00:00:27.640 cleared him of any wrongdoing. King 5's Alyssa Han joins us live from the newsroom with what he

00:00:32.600 had to say today. Alyssa. Laurie and Mark, Chief My Left, became emotional at a press conference

00:00:37.400 today having been exonerated of the sexual assault accusation. He said that the whole ordeal has

00:00:43.440 given him new perspective and will actually make him a better chief. I cannot express my gratitude

00:00:50.760 enough for everyone who offered prayers and expressions of support for my family and I during

00:00:55.780 the past three months.

00:01:00.220 I thank each and every one of you.

00:01:02.420 Hard to imagine what Chief Steve Milet endured these last three months

00:01:06.100 under heavy public scrutiny and a rape investigation.

00:01:10.200 There was a lot of things that my wife and I discussed and dealt with

00:01:13.980 and the what ifs and everything else.

00:01:16.600 There was fear, there was anxiety, culminating with tremendous relief

00:01:24.880 and gratitude that the members of the Bothell Police Department did such an exceptional job

00:01:31.180 rooting out the truth. This week, Bothell Police released a 56-page report exonerating Milette

00:01:37.280 of sexual assault. They say a 44-year-old woman came up with an elaborate story that the two of

00:01:43.640 them met online through a sex networking website. Oh my gosh. She even faked emails and forensic 0.79

00:01:50.000 evidence. Women are so crazy. The emails that she submitted to us after we did the forensics 1.00

00:01:57.540 analysis are completely doctored. I think the process of the claims that were made against me

00:02:04.240 worked, and I think another process will take place, and I'm confident that the right decisions

00:02:09.600 will be made. Prosecutors declined to file charges when the same woman accused another Bellevue

00:02:14.840 detective of rape they dismissed multiple charges against another officer john kivlin after evidence 0.59

00:02:21.320 the woman provided didn't hold up both there are so many crazy people around that like did these 0.95

00:02:27.400 crazy people for the older men that watch my channel were there this many crazy and harpies

00:02:33.800 and even some men that were around when you were young men admit to having relationships with her

00:02:40.200 both resigned from the department in my let's case investigators found no sign he had ever met

00:02:46.440 the accuser he said the ordeal taught him compassion i have a deeper appreciation of

00:02:53.480 what it means to be falsely accused i also have a deeper appreciation of

00:02:58.520 what it's like to be on administrative leave um and i think it will make me a better chief

00:03:05.080 and a better human being men that is like the most white guy thing to say white men just always see 1.00

00:03:14.340 the positive the woman in me can never see that like i would kill a bitch i'd murder her but he's 0.99

00:03:22.340 like you know what it's gonna make me a better police officer ninja what oh my god what a good 1.00

00:03:28.860 man what a good man okay a former girlfriend accused him of carving an x into her chest

00:03:34.500 with a box cutter, but now she's the one facing jail time. The arrest of a 19-year-old woman

00:03:39.740 today comes after we first shared the story of Christopher Precopia and how a selfie saved him

00:03:46.020 from possibly going to prison. Tony Plohetsky has an update on how police have now charged her

00:03:51.200 with lying about the whole thing. Christopher Precopia knows what it's like to be accused of

00:03:58.020 a crime he didn't commit. It was terrible. It was heartbreaking. It felt like nobody could believe

00:04:04.700 me. Nobody wanted to believe me. He also knows the feeling of vindication. Such a gratifying

00:04:11.400 feeling. Now he's pursuing justice. I want her to realize the pain she has caused me. We first

00:04:17.660 told you Chris. She does not care. Oh, is she crying? For a story last month, it was soon

00:04:23.180 shared around the world, a story of how he felt guilty until proven innocent and how a selfie

00:04:29.260 saved him from prison. Last year, a woman he dated four years ago in high school called Temple

00:04:34.560 Police and told them Christopher had just broken into her home and sliced her with a box cutter.

00:04:40.780 Detectives took these pictures of her injuries, but now police agree it never happened. On the

00:04:46.340 night 19-year-old Faith Cox claimed Christopher assaulted her, he was at an event in Austin more

00:04:51.780 than 60 miles away, he posed in a photo that helped convince prosecutors of his innocence

00:04:56.980 and to drop the charges. On Tuesday, authorities charge Cox with making a false report to police.

00:05:05.300 She faces up to 180 days in jail if convicted. Christopher spent 10 months working to get his

00:05:11.220 case thrown out, all the while facing the possibility of 99 years in prison if he didn't.

00:05:17.220 She is not a person in my life anymore.

00:05:21.240 That's so crazy. He could have lost his entire life.

00:05:24.060 More. I'm finally done with her, and I can move on with my life and feel great about it.

00:05:29.580 With his name now cleared, Christopher says he plans to join the Navy.

00:05:33.760 He also wants to possibly start a nonprofit called What About Me to help people just like him, accused of a crime they didn't do.

00:05:42.900 He also wants to focus on healing the emotional scars of an ordeal that never should have happened.

00:05:49.100 It's going to be a long journey, but I hope to get to a good end point.

00:05:53.720 Christopher says he still has no idea why Cox made the report to police in the first place.

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00:07:04.280 Gosh, that's like I've wasted years of my life trying to rationalize like why someone

00:07:08.720 did something negative to me i'm like why would you do that like but it's a terrible line of

00:07:13.200 thinking it's a terrible line of thinking because crazy people are just crazy and half the time

00:07:17.760 it's because they're crazy it has nothing to do with you nothing the end of brian bank's ordeal 0.68

00:07:24.320 was marked by tears after a judge threw out the rape charge that had sent him to prison

00:07:29.280 for more than five years my only dream in the world was to just be free and to have the same

00:07:37.680 opportunity as everybody here he was a 16 year old star linebacker with a full ride scholarship to

00:07:44.160 usc and a dream to play in the nfl when in 2002 a classmate accused banks of raping her in the

00:07:51.760 stairwell of their long beach high school the crazy thing is athlete world five years you're

00:07:58.080 done i remember a girl didn't do club one year and that's like nine months of the year like 0.78

00:08:03.200 volleyball seasons like three months for school clubs nine months so if a girl didn't do club a

00:08:07.760 lot of times she wouldn't come back and get to play five years in athlete world that's a lifetime

00:08:12.480 banks insisted it was consensual and there was no sex he told kcbs tv that his defense attorney at

00:08:18.240 the time gave him a choice plead no contest to rape or risk a trial that could send him to prison 0.97

00:08:25.120 for life when you go into that courtroom the jury is going to see a big black teenager 0.79

00:08:30.480 and you're automatically going to be assumed guilty those are her exact words he took the 0.98

00:08:35.520 deal with a female lawyer of course of course i mean his mistake was getting a female lawyer

00:08:43.200 to prison and had to register as a sex offender he thought that was the end of it but after he

00:08:49.200 was released came a surprise a friend request on facebook from his accuser wonetta gibson

00:08:56.480 i remember closing the laptop just like real quick and just like like thinking like what did

00:09:01.840 i just see so banks arranged a meeting with a private investigator who videotaped the whole

00:09:06.960 thing gibson later explained she hadn't wanted to say that publicly for fear of losing a 1.5

00:09:15.040 million dollar settlement that her family had gotten after suing the school district i may not

00:09:20.560 ever get the end oh my gosh this is why i was supposed to go through what i went through

00:09:26.560 but i know that i'm here today and i remain unbroken unbroken and working to get his life

00:09:35.200 back on track dreams of playing in the nfl he says might be realized yet we count in cbs news

00:09:43.120 los angeles that is the craziest thing i've ever why did she friend request him women we always

00:09:50.060 i think women's hamster wheel does have guilt what do you guys think it is like our hamster 0.52

00:09:54.520 wheel it's like when we do bad things we can't live with the guilt it seems like men when they

00:09:58.440 do a bad thing they live with the guilt better they do less bad things but when they do it

00:10:03.160 doesn't please they don't seem to throw themselves under the bus as much as we do department

00:10:06.720 investigating a possible false sexual assault accusation that led to a man's death ibc force

00:10:13.400 nicole newman talked to the logan police chief today and has a story police say it's a crime

00:10:19.040 he didn't commit and they have surveillance video to prove it. But sadly, it wouldn't be enough to

00:10:24.460 save the life of 62-year-old Michael Fyfe. Fyfe died on April 27, four days after suffering severe

00:10:30.920 head trauma from being tackled to the ground. This was a single forceful motion that appeared to have

00:10:40.400 knocked Mr. Fyfe off his feet. Logan City Police Chief Gary Jensen says the aggressor was a 17-year-old

00:10:46.800 who was led to believe his 16-year-old sister had been sexually assaulted by Fife.

00:10:52.240 The sister said it happened while on a Cache Valley Transit District bus,

00:10:56.400 but Chief Jensen says the surveillance footage they obtained doesn't support her claim.

00:11:00.580 It just simply doesn't appear to, according to what we were told.

00:11:07.160 My dad always would tell me to focus on the facts.

00:11:09.720 What are the facts? What are the facts?

00:11:11.220 Like, get rid of all the nonsense.

00:11:12.660 What are the facts before you make a rash decision?

00:11:15.280 Any guys in the chat, have any of you taken a woman's side later to realize she was lying?

00:11:22.980 Now the video that we watch, it doesn't seem to be that the two stories come together.

00:11:27.900 Jensen says the assault happened while Fife was getting off the bus near 300 South 100 West.

00:11:33.720 After the attacker ran away, eyewitnesses called for help.

00:11:37.720 This was all around 3 o'clock on April 23rd.

00:11:41.460 the police say the accuser didn't call to report the alleged assault to police until 6 15 p.m that

00:11:46.580 day as far as charges we're looking at this case trying to understand whether the elements

00:11:52.340 and and the knowledge of the perpetrator versus what actions that person took um whether they

00:11:58.180 meet the elements of that it's like okay if a woman spreads a rumor and something happens based

00:12:04.260 on the rumor but she didn't tell them to do that what do you think should she go to jail

00:12:09.300 what should be the consequence certain crimes according to a gofundme raising money for his

00:12:14.660 funeral expenses five leaves behind one son in logan city nicole newman abc4 news that's so sad

00:12:23.540 that's devastating so he's got a son some sit like that's that's the problem is like

00:12:30.820 young women lie a lot about this stuff and we believe them way too much like way too much 0.62

00:12:36.340 it's not true and nobody speaks up though now you need to stop the progression this whole thing from 0.83

00:12:42.160 getting worse because it's going to get bigger and bigger and only on seven news this police

00:12:46.280 interview with a fort collins woman she was later convicted for making phony rape accusations and

00:12:51.740 the man she accused was arrested and put in jail one year ago today well tonight he is speaking to

00:12:57.360 seven news reporter lindsey watts about why he is still struggling to pick up the pieces

00:13:01.840 It's definitely a reminder of what I've been through.

00:13:05.920 Accused of rape, cuffed at the police station the day before Thanksgiving.

00:13:09.860 I'd ask you some questions or any kind of sexual assault.

00:13:12.340 Watching it back one year later, Dustin Totes says his life still feels out of control.

00:13:18.940 His accuser, Catherine Bennett, a co-worker he'd started dating.

00:13:22.760 And right now, the statements that I've been given do not match evidence.

00:13:27.000 This is exclusive video of her police interview as Totes sat in jail.

00:13:31.580 her story fell apart. Bennett later convicted of making it all up. She was sentenced to 35 days

00:13:43.040 in jail, then an ankle monitor and probation. I don't feel that's justice. Toth says he's the

00:13:52.080 one who's been punished. The Army National Guardsman lost his civilian job and was out of

00:13:56.760 worked for nearly six months after the arrest. I've been behind on my car payment ever since.

00:14:01.920 He has his friends, but the emotional pain is still there. I feel like I'm incapable to actually

00:14:06.380 trust a woman again. He says it's telling his story that's helping him heal. Giving me the 1.00

00:14:11.460 opportunity to share it gives me the opportunity to clear my name because I still feel like my name

00:14:16.720 is not not cleared. Lindsay Watt, 7 News. Yeah, because you can't ever. All right, you can never

00:14:25.160 undo the the people that heard the first story and never heard the correction you know so yeah

00:14:33.220 all right guys let me know what you think in the comments um has something like this happened to

00:14:37.180 you please put it in the comments i do read them like the video and i'll see you next time

Pearl - June 02, 2026

Men Who Have BEATEN False Allegations

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