Some other famous cases of police criminality:
http://listverse.com/2015/02/06/10-heinous-cases-of-misconduct-by-crime-investigators/

I am sometimes quick and thoughtless to near-glorify women in situations such as Celeste’s. But only under the premise that, in this case, her coming out with these experiences has destabilized the city government and ruined the lives of hella cops. I believe this is objectively worth celebrating but not at the expense of defining Celeste’s intentions, circumstance or afterthoughts.

When a SW in North Carolina, Heather, defensively shot and killed a John–who turned out to be a serial killer–opportunists from every corner jumped online to label her a hero, a victim, and whatever else. As Heather later attested in interviews, she didn’t want the sudden fanfare. She felt confused and, probably, would have liked the time following her experience to spend with herself and those she already knew so she could develop her own understanding of the situation, free from swaths of humans exploiting her experience to move forward their career or ideology.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/hookers4heather

In Celeste’s case, she says sex with cops happened before and after she turned 18. Not only is american society totally obsessed with victimizing young women (of color) but the last several years’ campaigns against “human trafficking” (with quotes bc how this term has been defined is entirely law-based and manufactured to benefit saviors and politicians) have, among other things, allotted much more power to the police to judge who is a sex-victim. With this kind of power accompanied by the already brutal and predatory nature of cops, one can only imagine how many of these same cops and other cops have similar relationships to women on the streets of Oakland and elsewhere.

Again, it’s important to not determine Celeste’s experience for her. If you don’t know her, have nothing to offer her, care less about what happens to her after this… the best you can do is leave her the fuck alone so she has a fighting chance of preserving her autonomy in this crazy-as-fuck situation she’s in. Another reason running your mouth about her is unfair and all too common, is that somehow people think that calling her a victim will give more power to struggles against the police, legislation, and other state institutions. But, seriously, what the fuck? These pigs make this case against themselves every day.
If you find yourself eager to piece apart this latest spectacle, obsessing and ranting, it’s likely because you have absolutely nothing common with Celeste, nothing in common with sex workers or their perpetual struggle to live free of (police) violence.

If you know you have something to lose at the mention of things like ‘human trafficking’ or ‘police brutality’, here are alternative topics in lieu of multiplying search results for every time Celeste Guap’s name is googled:

We can discuss ways people (SW or not) throughout Oakland can come forward with statements of sexual exploitation safely. By “safely” I mean WITHOUT THE COPS or the politicians who employ them.

OR we can talk about Alameda County D.A. Nancy Omalley’s long term campaign against human trafficking (H.E.A.T. Watch) which has endangered hundreds of SWs throughout the county by shutting down their massage parlors, directing raids and stings and funding brutally insufficient “recovery” programs for people arrested on prostitution charges.
http://www.alcoda.org/about_us/meet_the_da

OR we can discuss ways we can exploit the current destabilization within the city government, namely the police department, to benefit our collective revolutionary potential.

OR we can struggle on, like we always do–despite the journalists and other predators who live for spectacles like this–with or without a crisis in the headlines–toward the collective safety of SWs in Oakland and beyond.

??? TLDR: Fuck the police. ACAB. Leave Celeste alone. Build your own revolutionary projects predicated on the inherent and structural exploitation of the state and their police without glorifying or victimizing her experience.

Finally, a big FUCK YOU to all the police, politicians, activists, academics and journalists who’ve exploited Celeste and her experiences.