Last year, UltraViolet, a gender-justice organization, launched a campaign online and with posters hung through Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood marking Andrew (Tate) as “Unwanted in Miami.” They branded him a “sexual predator imported to the U.S. by President Donald Trump.”
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami after British authorities issued 38 new charges against the pair over the weekend. The brothers were arrested on Saturday (July 18) on an extradition request from British authorities.
A news release from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Andrew had been charged with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.
Nicole Regalado, the vice president of campaigns for advocacy group UltraViolet, joins ABC News Live to discuss the anti-Tesla demonstrations happening Saturday.
"We want the Trump administration, we want Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is a Floridian herself, to come to their senses, to do what they claim they do, and to protect women by extraditing these men to face their day in court," UntraViolet's Rosa Valderrama said.
“The goal is two-fold. Survivors deserve justice. The Tates have to face their accusers in a court of law. That is our primary goal. We’re also looking to warn women and girls in Miami and across the country about the danger these men represent,” said Rosa Valderrama, the South Florida-based director of the campaign.
“There will ultimately be backlash to the backlash, and it’s our job to swing the pendulum back,” said Shaunna Thomas, outgoing executive director of women’s group UltraViolet.
"These harms silence us online, violate our right to control our own image, and distort our elections," said Jenna Sherman, the campaign director at UltraViolet.
UltraViolet, a community focused on combating sexism and promoting equality for women through advocacy, issued a stern statement on the matter.
“Coupled with McAfee’s pattern of promoting problematic falsehoods – including platforming Aaron Rodgers and allowing him to spread conspiracy theories about the coronavirus or Jeffrey Epstein – demonstrate that McAfee simply does not have the necessary judgment that sports fans deserve.
“Not only does McAfee deserve to be fired, but Disney needs to ensure that ESPN commits to a culture where commentators will no longer be allowed to spew sexist and racist remarks. That should be the minimum standard that sports fans should expect from their commentators and that ESPN and Disney should expect from their hosts. It is hard to ask for anything less when we recall that ESPN is the same network that suspended Jemele Hill for calling President Trump a white supremacist.”
Divorcing gender justice from democracy is inconsistent, irrational and unnecessarily expensive. To separate them is to delay success and pay for it many times over.
“Because of Cassie, and the three other women who came forward to tell their stories, we all now know the real Sean Combs,” Shaunna Thomas, the executive director of UltraViolet, said in a statement. “His brand deals have collapsed, fellow artists have distanced themselves from him and called for accountability, and even though he was nominated for a Grammy Award this year, he didn’t show up because he knew he would not be welcome there.”
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