Just got off the phone with my WRAL contact. She said they would persue it, but I ain't holding my breath, lol...
"We're not Duke lacrosse lawyers," Mason said ... "We don't practice that way. We don't comment about pending cases, we don't do interviews, we don't make statements."
Why not say, "We're not Mike Nifong, we don't comment..."
But they do accept cover-ups.
"The Raleigh charges were notable for the fact that they DIDN'T ADDRESS what Thomas has said was the first act of the confrontation, a move by one of the men involved to poke him in the shoulder with a finger... The shoulder poke was likely a criminal act under North Carolina law, given court decisions that have held "the merest unauthorized touching of another [person] is an assault," said Barry Winston, a criminal-defense lawyer in Chapel Hill.
A judge "who strictly interprets the law would, I suspect, hold that North Carolina law requires him to convict someone who walks up to someone and in an antagonistic fashion pokes that person with his finger," although that's "not what the average person thinks of as assault," Winston said."
Finnerty got a tough sentence for shouting at someone who punched him. This "poke in the shoulder" is technically battery, not assualt. What are these officers going to get?
And why aren't the Durham media all over this?
Are the Raleigh media any better?