Thread: Radical Hispanic Activist Who Condemned Trump’s Mexican Rapist Comments – Is Arrested

Radical Hispanic Activist Who Condemned Trump’s Mexican Rapist Comments – Is Arrested for Rape

Jim Hoft Sep 18th, 2016 9:36 am 81 Comments

You just can’t make this up…

Hispanic activist Tony Yaplas, who has led protests against Donald Trump in Salt Lake City, was arrested for raping an illegal immigrant.


Tony Yaplas

Yaplas was very upset with Trump’s Mexican rapist comments.

Now he’s been arrested for rape.

Conservative Treehouse reported:

You might remember a Hispanic political activist named Tony Yapias, who was extremely critical of Donald Trump’s assertion that some illegal Mexican aliens were rapists.

Tony Yapias is the director of ‘Proyecto Latino de Utah’. Mr. Yapias also coordinated numerous protest events against Donald Trump including a rather violent display in Salt Lake City, Utah. – SEE HERE–

This week Tony Yapias has been arrested for rape. However, not only was Yapias arrested for rape – his victim was, …wait for it…, yep, an illegal alien.

Yes, it appears Mexican rapist Tony Yapias felt additionally empowered by the fact his victim was less likely to be able to contact law enforcement.

Police say Tony Yapias forced his way into the home of a woman who had broken off their long-term relationship months ago and raped her.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016...arrested-rape/

Well! Dont that beat all. Mexican rapists oppose Donald Trump's opposition to illegal alien rapists!

Ive posted this to our Donald Trump support page on Facebook and shared it to all our social media pages for ALIPAC.

https://www.facebook.com/FireObama/

Activist Tony Yapias arrested, charged with rape

by Larry D. Curtis (KUTV)
Monday, September 12th 2016

Activist Tony Yapias arrested, charged with rape





(KUTV) A prominent Utah activist, Tony Yapias, was arrested and is facing first-degree, felony rape charges. He was also charged with misdemeanor tampering with evidence.

According to charging documents, Adolfo Tony Yapias-Delgado, went to the home of a woman he had a four-year relationship with, 10 days after the alleged victim terminated the relationship, and had sex with her without her consent. He was was charged Monday in 3rd District Court.

The document says Yapias was interviewed about the incident and admitted sex had occurred but felt the victim consented.

Texts were recovered by investigators, according to the document, that showed the alleged victim "expressed strongly and repeatedly" that the relationship was over and she didn't want anything to do with Yapias.

On March 21, he went to her home against her wishes. The documents quote the victim's last texts to the defendant: "I said no. Don't you get it."

Yapias is said to have responded in three texts.

"No I don't get it," followed by "I'll be there and then "I'm here."

It is alleged that once at the victim's home, he went in uninvited after she opened the door to confront him in the parking lot. The victim made it clear she wasn't interested in relationship and didn't want to engage in sex. The documents say Yapias "forced the issue and had sexual intercourse with the victim without her consent."

After the incident, Yapias wanted to talk about their relationship and during the conversation, as the victim was explaining why she was angry, he alledgedly took her phone and deleted the text exchanges. The messages were later retrieved by a forensic investigator.

Despite a concern about her immigration status, the victim reported the sexual assault the day it happened to multiple people including police. She was examined by a forensic nurse and was found, according to the documents, to have multiple physical injuries consistent with her explanation of events.

Working with police, she also texted Yapias about the events of March 21, seeking an apology. He apologized for erasing the texts and, investigators said, "acknowledged that the victim told him 'no' multiple times and she did not want to have sex."

http://kutv.com/news/local/activist-tony-yapias-charged-with-rape

By Tom Blumer | September 18, 2016 | 5:24 PM EDT

Utah-based Hispanic activist Tony Yapias has drawn a fairly high level of national attention during the past six years.

Most recently, Yapias's name came up in coverage of a clash between "protesters" and supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Salt Lake City in March. A search on his full name at the New York Times returns eight in-house items between 2010 and 2014. He has been variously described as "director of an immigration advocacy group," "a longtime Latino leader in Utah," and as "an activist with political interests." A week ago, Mr. Yapias picked up another tag: accused rapist. I haven't been able to locate any nationally distributed establishment media coverage of Yapias's arrest.

There isn't a chance in Hades that conservative or anti-illegal immigration activist in the same circumstances would be similarly ignored. You don't even have to commit a crime to become a press-driven national object of scorn, as Elizabeth Lauten learned in 2014 when she posted an opinion on Facebook that the President's daughters need to "try showing a little class" — and was hounded into resigning her Capitol Hill staff position.

Here are portions of a story on Yapias's arrest found at the website of TV and radio station KSL in Salt Lake City. Note that the station's reference to the victim's immigration status was predictably indirect:

Tony Yapias, prominent activist for Latino community in Utah, charged with rape

Tony Yapias, a prominent activist for the Latino community in Utah, was charged Monday with raping a woman who police say had recently ended her romantic relationship with him.

In addition to the first-degree felony rape charge, Yapias was charged in 3rd District Court with tampering with evidence, a class A misdemeanor.

Yapias, 50, of Salt Lake City, is the director of Proyecto Latino de Utah, an advocacy organization for Latinos in the state. He was arrested Monday and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on $250,000 bail. He is formally identified in court documents as Adolfo Tony Yapias-Delgado.

Charges allege that the rape occurred March 21 in South Salt Lake. The victim had ended her four-year romantic involvement with Yapias 10 days earlier, court documents say.

"(Yapias) went inside the victim's home uninvited after she opened the door to go confront him in the parking lot," charges state. "The victim again made it clear she was not interested in a continuing relationship and did not want to engage in sex. (Yapias) then forced the issue and had sexual intercourse with the victim without her consent."

The woman reported the alleged rape to police and others that same day, "despite her fears and concerns with respect to immigration issues," court documents say. A medical examination indicated multiple injuries that were consistent with her account of what happened, according to charging documents.

... In 2014, he attended a meeting with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service and U.S. Attorney’s Office on behalf of the Latino community. He is also the former director of the Utah Office of Hispanic Affairs.

KSL and the Deseret News have interviewed Yapias several times, most recently last week for a story about the slowing rate of the Latino population in Utah in the United States.

... Gill said he doesn't know why the Davis County Attorney's Office required until September to file charges, but he did say "sometimes it ends up taking a little bit extra time" to file a case when it's handed off between jurisdictions.

The amazing thing here is that Yapias has had this matter hanging over him for six months — and yet, as seen above, continued to maintain his high profile as if there was nothing wrong. Perhaps he hoped that he could talk his victim who is in the U.S. illegally (that's what "concerns with respect to immigration issues" means, but the courts and the press won't communicate in plain English in connection with these matters) into recanting her story. And yes, there's more than a little concern about why it took so long for prosecutors to file charges.

Of course, Tony Yapias's name is nowhere to be found at the Associated Press's main national site or at its "Big Story" site.

The AP, as it so often does in these matters, has noticed Yapias's arrest, and has treated it as a local and regional story with a terse report which communicates very little. Here's the whole thing:

Latino activist accused of rape says his story will come out

A well-known Utah Latino activist who has been accused of assaulting a woman won't respond to the allegation but says his side of the story has not been told.

Tony Yapias, who directs the advocacy group Proyecto Latino De Utah, held a press conference in Salt Lake City on Monday after he was arrested Monday and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on the charge of first-degree felony rape.

According to court documents, Yapias is accused of raping a woman who had ended a romantic involvement with him.

Yapias says he has confidence in the legal system and his side of the story will come out.

No initial court date has been set in his case.

There's nothing about the victim's immigration status, nothing about Yapias's attempt to tamper with evidence, and nothing about his attempt to use the victim's immigration situation to try to silence her.

Why did the AP even bother? The guess here is that if Yapias hadn't called a press conference, the wire service wouldn't have covered the story at all.

A Google News search on Tony Yapias's full name (in quotes, sorted by date, past seven days, not showing duplicates) done at 4 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday returned 16 items. None, except the aforementioned AP item which only has local and regional visibility, are from national news outlets.

This is yet another story which would remain virtually unknown outside of Utah and parts of "flyover country" if it weren't for alert center-right bloggers bringing it to the nation's attention.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-...activists-rape

Facebook is heavily blocking this story... we posted it on 15 pages in front of over 600k people and only 150 clicks to read this !

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