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Judge orders release of Newtown 911 calls
Yahoo News ^ | November 26, 2013 | Dylan Stableford

Posted on 11/27/2013 6:27:08 AM PST by Uncle Chip

A day after a Connecticut state's attorney released a final report on the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, a judge ruled the 911 tapes from the shootings be released ....

Superior Court Judge Eliot Prescott ordered the release of recordings of the phone calls that Newtown, Conn., police received from the school on Dec. 14, 2012 ....

The 911 tapes are to be released on or before Dec. 4 at 2 p.m., Prescott said....

The Associated Press had requested the 911 tapes be released under the Freedom of Information Act so the public can judge the police response to the killings.

"Every time someone calls 911, there is a belief that there is a crime," Victor Perpetua, the lawyer for the state's Freedom of Information Commission, said at the hearing. "That is part of the record. But to me the more important part of the record was what response did that person get? How was that information taken? What was the time period?

"I don't mean to say anything wrong happened," he continued. "I don't know one way or the other. At a certain point people start to ask, 'What is there to hide?' I'm saying the longer it's delayed, the more questions that are raised and that delays in providing access to this kind of record increases public insecurity about their police departments.".....

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; movealong; newtown; nothingtoseehere; sandyhook; transparency
Stephen Sedensky III, the state's attorney, fought against the release, arguing the tapes — which were "being made on the murder of children as it occurs" — are too gruesome for residents to bear.

No, Mr Sedensky, what is gruesome for the residents to bear is knowing that while their defenseless children were being murdered in that school the only ones with arms to stop it, Newtown's finest, were busying themselves playing ring around the rosy instead of engaging the shooter.

1 posted on 11/27/2013 6:27:08 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Citizens are competent to decide for themselves what is and is not “too gruesome” for them to hear.

This nanny state, saving us from ourselves, is getting really, really old.

The state’s attorney has far deeper reasons for not wanting the tapes released.


2 posted on 11/27/2013 6:34:27 AM PST by VideoPaul
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To: Uncle Chip

I want to see a coroners photo of the shooter.


3 posted on 11/27/2013 6:43:06 AM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Uncle Chip

The police surrounded the school and probably let the shooting go on for minutes (that’s the reason why Lanza killed 20 kids with zero injured).

Then the police gave a video of them running into a neighboring school to CNN to make them look like heroes.


4 posted on 11/27/2013 6:45:36 AM PST by struggle
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To: Uncle Chip

Scared cop parked up the street, waited.

How many kids could you shoot in 300 seconds, if insane and totally unimpeded...?


5 posted on 11/27/2013 6:55:04 AM PST by gaijin
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6 posted on 11/27/2013 6:58:57 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: gaijin
Scared cop parked up the street, waited.

Yep he parked several hundred yards away from the school and then took the longest route up to the school when his buddies arrived.

And while shots are ringing out in the school, the police arrive just in time to chase the parent on the phone to 911 reporting those shots up into the woods.

7 posted on 11/27/2013 7:04:56 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Watch for the DOJ to appoint another judge.


8 posted on 11/27/2013 7:08:43 AM PST by esoxmagnum (Turtles don't win fights, they just turtle up. Victory belongs to the aggressor, not the turtle.)
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Sedensky’s Summary of Sandy Hook Shooting Phone Calls and Emergency Response:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/11/26/nyregion/26newtownside-timeline.html?ref=nyregion

Transcript of police dispatch recorded that day that pokes holes in Sedensky’s Summary:

http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20121214/newtown-school-shooting-transcript-of-police-fire-radio-dispatch?viewmode=default


9 posted on 11/27/2013 7:14:58 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: gaijin

Exactly, happens all the time.


10 posted on 11/27/2013 7:34:28 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: Uncle Chip

The only reason that this is being released is that the anti-gun momentum that the tragedy invoked is waning and people are forgetting. This is just a means of fanning anti-gun sentiment.


11 posted on 11/27/2013 1:32:13 PM PST by BuffaloJack (Democrats believe in a two-party system—the masters and the slaves.)
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To: esoxmagnum

It’s not even possible for the DOJ to do that in the Connecticut judicial system.


12 posted on 11/27/2013 2:38:47 PM PST by Boogieman
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