The woman at the center of a San Francisco police scandal after investigators used evidence from her sexual assault exam to link her to an unrelated property crime is planning to sue the Police Department , saying the incident made her feel like she was "reliving" her trauma all over again. "If I can't even trust the police," she said, "who can I trust?" The woman in an interview with The Chronicle said she was first contacted by police a few months ago, after neighbors called police to her home for a loud fight she was having with her boyfriend. The police soon left but then came back with a warrant for her arrest. She didn't realize at the time that that she had been tied to a recent property crime from a rape exam that she had given in 2016. She was kept in custody until last month, when her attorney told her that her charges were being dropped because of how police linked her to the crime. The woman said she should have been happy to be released but stayed at home depressed for days. "When you feel like you have nobody to talk to about it, it's… Read full this story
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