Information still lacking on police assault case
In reference to your article in the Dec. 29 News & Record and previous articles about the three local police officers who allegedly sexually assaulted a female police officer, I would like to make the following comments.
Your newspaper complained about the lack of information regarding the circumstances of the alleged assault and rightly so. Now that the City Council and Police Department have released more information about the situation, it helps me and others to understand what might have happened.
According to the articles, there was another female (friend of the alleged victim) also picked up. There has been no other information about the friend. Was she a witness to the alleged assault or perhaps also assaulted? If the City Council or Police Department won't say, the News & Record could at least relate that there was no information submitted to the paper about the other female.
So, your paper is just as guilty as the others as far as withholding information.
Bernard L. Zales
Greensboro
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Great letter!
The N&R joined with the Rhino in trying to crucify Mitch Johnson and deify David Wray---never mind the facts in that case. I am very disappointed in how the press has handled that case, so this latest one is no surprise.
Posted on January 4, 2008 9:38 AM
The newspaper can only print the info publicly available. Even if this was an official criminal complaint, which it isn't, the information about witnesses and the identity of the victim would be shielded by law.
Quit trying to "Nifong" these officers.
Posted on January 4, 2008 12:12 PM