Basing guilt on whether or not a player claims to have been in the room is stupid anyways.
Maybe for a guy who didn’t attend the event at all, sure. But for anyone else who attended, saying you were or weren’t in the room doesn’t mean a whole lot. In the room before? After? During? Participant in the assault? Witnessed the assault? Found out later? Had no idea it ever happened?
It’s ways more complicated than “I never attended the event”. Even for those guys, they may have known about, have heard rumours, seen pics/videos, texted with teammates. Maybe not guilty of the assault but did nothing to report it after the fact.
So while I’d prefer it I’d Dube was out of the country or something at the time, I think saying he’s cooperating is about the best we can hope for considering a bunch of players probably haven’t cooperated at all. Cooperating is better than wall of silence.
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