here's what we know:

1. almost all incidents of reported sexual assault are true.

2. there is a fair amount of evidence that, while not conclusive, could lead a reasonable, non biased person to believe that this case may be one of the extremely rare exceptions.

the key phrase in number 2 is "may." yeah, there's a decent chance he didn't do it, but let's not pretend we found a smoking gun here. I find myself exactly where I was at the start of this case: not knowing.

so, no, I'm not going to treat Rose as a rapist. as far as these things go, i'm pretty ok with anyone who wants to move on and pretend this never happened. What I'm not cool with is people acting like Derrick Rose conclusively won something here or throwing it back in people's face that, zomg, you chose to believe a potential sexual assault victim.