I read the entire article- it's quite obfuscated.
" Somebody " told the Durham police that the players yelled that phrase.
The Durham police then told the Duke police what " someone " had told them.
The Duke police then told the Burness, the Duke VP what the Durham police had told them.
The professor was in the office while the Duke VP spoke to the Duke police.
So, while it is quite true that professor Holloway did overhear the Duke VP repeat aloud, what he had just been told-there is no substantiation that anything he had just heard ...was true.
Burness continued, “I also knew that the Durham Police didn't clarify who apparently had said it.."
Gossip and rumor passed from department to department is now considered fact.
Sounds like this case. Why doesn't Duke and Faculty stop digging further into the abyss they've created for themselves?
Too rational, too ethical for them. Hmm..
I recall the pot-bangers making various similar statements, along with the New Black Panthers. It's part of their every day language.
FLASHBACK ...
http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/437920.html
Published: May 10, 2006 12:30 AM
Modified: May 10, 2006 06:10 AM
Duke report draws retort from Durham
Manager: Police took case seriously
DURHAM - Duke University administrators appear to have based their response to rape accusations against lacrosse players on a cell phone conversation overheard on a hospital loading dock.
An internal report filed by a Duke police officer March 14, shortly after a woman told emergency room workers she was raped, says the accuser initially said she was attacked by 20 men before changing it to three men.
It also indicates that city police were skeptical that a serious crime had occurred, though it does not say which Durham officer made that assessment.
City Manager Patrick Baker said Tuesday that the Duke police report is based on what a campus police officer overheard a low-ranking Durham officer say on a cell phone early that morning outside Duke Hospital. The criminal investigation has been handled by Durham police.
"Their officer did not speak to our officer," Baker said. "He appears to have overheard half a conversation, and he didn't follow up."
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