f{"id":51516,"date":"2026-10-09T22:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=51516"},"modified":"2026-10-09T22:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:45:23","slug":"manny-yekutiel-accuser-brad-chapin-got-his-life-back-now-hes-announcing-an-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/manny-yekutiel-accuser-brad-chapin-got-his-life-back-now-hes-announcing-an-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Yekutiel accuser Brad Chapin got his \u2018life back.\u2019 Now, he\u2019s announcing an endorsement."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The political organizer who first went public about Yekutiel has had a hard time of it.<\/div>\n
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Brad Chapin, the man who first accused<\/a> Emanuel \u201cManny\u201d Yekutiel of sexual assault in June, said that he was so stressed in the months that followed that he could hardly sleep.<\/p>\n

Now that Yekutiel is out of the race<\/a>, he says he\u2019s better, and can rest.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also advocating for other sexual-assault survivors, and today announced his endorsement in the District 8 supervisor race: Darshini Patel.<\/p>\n

Patel, Chapin said, was one of the people \u2014\u00a0along with Supervisor Myrna Melgar and Ivy Lee, the director of the Office of Victim and Witness Rights \u2014 he felt particularly supported by when he first came forward.<\/p>\n

He remembers appreciating a statement<\/a> Patel put out on the day his accusation was first reported, which called out the \u201creflex to question and minimize\u201d survivors.<\/p>\n

Later that week, he ran into Patel at a rally in support of sexual-assault survivors.<\/p>\n