Petition claims Ian Connor raped over 30 women, call for justice grows after he shares George Floyd porn film
Ian Connor continued walking the ramp and headline some of the biggest fashion brands including Kanye’s Yeezy, despite being accused of raping multiple women. In 2016, when Vogue praised him for trying out the “fashion-forward of trends”, one of his many victims, Malika Anderson, who was 23-year-old at the time, shared a lengthy blog post detailing the horrific experience she had with Connor. She titled her post, “Ian Connor Is a Rapist, and I Know Firsthand.”
With her post came several more disturbing details from other women, who were allegedly sexually harassed and abused by Connor. Only a day after Anderson’s post went live, five more women accused the fashion icon of allegedly raping them. He was eventually accused of having raped 21 women in total. A while later, a few reports claimed that ten more women had come forward with assault allegations against Connor, but the latter denied all of them.
In fact, in an interview with The Daily Beast, Amber Rose, said “21 women” have contacted her with claims that Connor sexually assaulted them. But that happened in late 2016.
Connor is making headlines yet again and furious internet users have accused him of raping more than 21 women. The majority of tweets have asserted that Connor has committed over 30 rapes and the numbers have risen drastically only in a matter of two days.
One user wrote, “UPDATE: the number of ian connors rape allegations has risen up to 38 right now, bring justice to his victims and get him accountable of his actions!” He has been trending since the time several tweets carrying different numbers started swirling on Twitter.
“Ian connor rape allegations were at 21 women like 2 days ago now it’s at 33, this man is a demon fr,” read another tweet. While these tweets lack clarity and no reports regarding the new allegations against Connor have been made available, internet users have taken the matter into their hands and started a petition online demanding action. The petition on Change.org has already received over 5600 signatures.
The petition states that Connor has still been receiving cosigns and been able to conduct business as usual while his alleged victims have to live with the injustices committed against them. This petition aims to call for the people that cosign him to denounce any association with him and encourage him to begin to attempt to right his wrongs. 'We cannot allow "internet personalities" be exempt from repercussion', it stated.
Connor for his part has remained unapologetic. When Muna Mire, a writer and associate producer on television show Desus & Mero, put the question to the internet : “Did Ian Connor face literally any consequences I feel like I still see him in the background of Virgil’s Instagrams?????” in 2019, the former Kanye West creative consultant had tweeted: “If The Consequences Were More Money, More Power, And A Clearer Head Space Then Yes. I Did Face The Consequences."
While Connor has been slammed with new allegations, he’s also being called out for sharing screenshots from a pornographic film that George Floyd featured in. He captioned it “He’s garbage”. Connor deleted the post a few minutes later.
“Ian Connor is such a f**king lame posting screenshots of George Floyd's sex work. Trying to take away from his murder like sex workers deserve to be killed too. Bro we ain't forget you're a rapist coon SHUT THE F**K UPPPPPP!,” said one agitated Twitter user.