WTMJ Conversations: Dawn Helmrich
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LIBBY COLLINS: Tell us a little bit about Denim Day and why it’s important for the City of Milwaukee.
DAWN HELMRICH: So, Denim Day is a day for people to wear jeans or denim in some way or another to support survivors of sexual assault. And how Denim Day came about was that a young lady in Italy was raped by her driving instructor. She was able to have him arrested, he went to court, he was convicted. He appealed the conviction, and the case went all the way to the highest judge in the Italian parliament. And that judge overturned the case saying that because she was wearing tight jeans and had to physically remove them herself that she was giving consent.