Tawana Brawley told her story many months before I got involved-and many others got involved, Bill Cosby, and many others, who have never refuted the story. I don't refute it now. I believe ... something happened to Tawana Brawley.... There is a problem in this country, that a lot of people don't believe women. A lot of people don't believe young women. I took the risk, as I have in most of the civil rights cases I have fought, to stand up for the victim. In this particular case, a jury did not believe her.