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Police: Columbia Won't Turn Over (Noose) Video
AP via SFGate ^
| 10/11/7
| TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writer
Posted on 10/11/2007 10:57:59 AM PDT by SmithL
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As compelling as the conspiracy theories are, I don't buy them. If there really is damning footage on the video(s) (which at this point is pure speculation), Columbia has a lot more to lose than to gain by somehow tampering or losing the videos. Such an act would not avoid detection. So to suggest that Columbia is actively suppressing the videos makes little sense to me. It would come out in the wash eventually and ultimately be far more damagin to Columbia than anythiing that's happened up to now.
On the other hand, there are many reasons for Columbia to cooperate with the police: they want their students and the public to see that they take this issue seriously, and are doing all they can to get to the bottom of the matter, and they want to protect the safety and peace of mind of their students and employees. Imagine if YOU were an outraged student, and you heard that your own school was perhaps impeding the investigation. You would be angry.
Columbia administrators know this. Yet they *still* are holding back the tape, despite their undoubted awareness of how bad it looks to do so.
SO - There MUST be some school policy, an overly cautious school policy, disseminated by their legal counsel, not voluntarily to turn over information which may somehow subject them to liability. Although I think in this case there would be no liability, I think their position must be that they disseminate information only when *compelled,* this way there are no decisions to be made by Columbia administrators which can later be second-guessed or disfavorably analyzed.
To: SmithL
The racist Blacks are setting themselves up for the whole “boy who cried wolf” deal and don’t realize it.
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posted on
10/11/2007 2:02:57 PM PDT
by
seemoAR
(Absolute power corrupts absolutely)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets; SmithL
83
posted on
10/11/2007 2:07:08 PM PDT
by
restornu
(No one is perfect but you can always strive to do the right thing! Press Forward Mitt!)
To: SmithL
Oh, it’s Ahmanutjob! No, he’d already left, darn!
84
posted on
10/11/2007 2:22:17 PM PDT
by
fishergirl
(My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)
To: Melas
85
posted on
10/11/2007 2:28:15 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Islam is a clown car with guns.)
To: SmithL
Why do I have a sneaky suspicion that she (the prof) did it herself? She has been teaching African-American studies of some kind. Maybe attendance is going down and she wants to keep racism at the front in news to justify her position and purpose at the school.
Why else would the school refuse to give the tape to the police?
God forgive me if I’m wrong.
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posted on
10/11/2007 2:29:18 PM PDT
by
DallasDeb
((a.k.a. USAFA2006Mom!))
To: SmithL
Columbia has lost any credibility. Turn the tape over if you are sincere. Hiding it means you have something to hide.
87
posted on
10/11/2007 2:31:30 PM PDT
by
dforest
(Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
To: indylindy
Just curious, does Columbia University, in this day and age, actually employ any white heterosexual males? Seriously they can’t have a very big pool of politically correct suspects.
88
posted on
10/11/2007 2:42:36 PM PDT
by
Agent Smith
(Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
To: Ingtar
I find myself in the odd position of supporting Columbias position in one respect: What is wrong with waiting to comply until after a warrant is issued? That is the legal way for the police to obtain this. In a way I agree, but . . . if this showed somebody drive up in a car with a Bush sticker, it would be the lead video on every news outlet. I suspect there is something on the tape that will change the way this story is seen.
89
posted on
10/11/2007 3:54:28 PM PDT
by
feedback doctor
(green is the new red. . .)
To: Joann37
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posted on
10/11/2007 4:09:19 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: SmithL
Boy, I sure hope somebody doesn’t find a noose that isn’t empty before all this drives us nuts.
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posted on
10/11/2007 4:11:27 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: SmithL
92
posted on
10/11/2007 4:29:53 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Izzy Dunne
Columbia had the tape for over 24 hours before relenting. That’s plenty of time to eliminate the part that shows the perp. 10-1 the important part has been “accidentally” erased.
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posted on
10/11/2007 5:33:35 PM PDT
by
50mm
(Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist - G. Carlin)
To: teledingo
You must not be familiar with how Political Correctness works if you are not convinced that it's a good possibility that this is a phony racially-motivated incident based on the fact that the tape is being withheld from the investigators.
With those on the left, it's not the accuracy of the evidence, it's the seriousness of the charge. It doesn't matter if it really happened, but just that a black woman said an incident occured.
It flat-out doesn't even matter if the tape shows her sitting there in the hall weaving a rope from a spool of twine and tying the noose right in front of the camera. It will be still be believed that a racist white person did it, or in the very least that "Well, this still happens, so it doesn't matter if this one didn't." I guarantee that no one will go out of his way to clear up this "incident" were the tape to show it was perpetrated by the "victim".
The highest value incident to a race-baiter is a white man against a black woman. It's a combination of perceived power and social status of the particular demographics. But, ironically, if the woman is a wealthy professor, and the man a high school dropout, it's the same as if the man were the woman's boss. The perception is that the rich white man is just more sereptitious in his racism. It is a presumption that is hard to escape; that a white man is just naturally racist.
And a white man sure as hell better not say it didn't happen.
94
posted on
10/11/2007 8:26:14 PM PDT
by
Squeako
(In the future, prisoners will create custom license plates with their thumbs on a phone.)
To: 50mm
Columbia had the tape for over 24 hours before relenting. Thats plenty of time to eliminate the part that shows the perp. 10-1 the important part has been accidentally erased.Oh, come on. Don't be so cynical. It will simply be a "malfunctioning camera".
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posted on
10/11/2007 8:33:10 PM PDT
by
Squeako
(In the future, prisoners will create custom license plates with their thumbs on a phone.)
To: MoMagic
It has happened a lot. I think one dumbass wrote the epithet backwards on her own head ... while looking in a mirror. LOL! It was a Nazi Swastika.
To: SeaHawkFan
I recall a woman who claims she was the victim of a racially motivated attack appears to have made the story up.
In Texas I think. She said two white men abducted her, sexually assaulted her, and scrawled the letters K-K-K into her - maybe head, maybe chest.
Come to find out the “K”s were backwards, and she confessed to doing it in a mirror at home.
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posted on
10/12/2007 12:52:12 PM PDT
by
MoMagic
To: MoMagic
Exactly.
Also, there is something called a subpoena. They can get a court order for it.
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posted on
10/12/2007 12:56:23 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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