Two of the Lacrosse players...(not the ones indicted) are twins....and the dad is speaking out because he's extremely upset at what this is doing to the reputations of all the young men!
He's a firefighter for NYC and was involved with the World Trade Center that day!!!!
He says these aren't the rich playboys types that the media is smearing them as.
This man lives on Long Island and was a responder to the trade center, for goodness sakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go read the link...(sorry I'm not good at linking!)
It will pull your blood pressure even higher....I know mine is!!!
His son has been in trouble wiith the law before. See post #191.
Brian Loftus' twin sons are members of the Duke lacrosse team. (ABC News)
"Both my sons vehemently, all they ever told me was, 'Dad, nothing happened. Nobody did anything,'" Loftus said. Loftus added that the "Blue Wall of Silence" was a myth, and that all the players were willing to cooperate with authorities.
"These kids were willing to take polygraphs. These kids were willing to take blood tests. They were willing to come down and give statements," Loftus said. "They did everything. They gave their DNA. We thought once we give that, that it was going to be over. But every night, every day, all we see on the TV is, we're hiding something. Obviously there's nothing to hide."
Loftus was one of the New York firefighters who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. He said he was also bothered by media reports calling the lacrosse team a bunch of rich, white kids whose only possession greater than wealth was cockiness.
"I'm not an emotional person, but every day I cry. I have tears in my eyes. I feel like the world's been pulled underneath my feet," Loftus said. "My kids, when you hear them sobbing on the phone that their lives are destroyed and you hear other people saying the same thing you wonder what went wrong. And we know nothing went wrong. I cannot stress that any more. Nothing happened that night."