“Truth be known the newsreader in the van called the guy on the bike and they got there at the same time so the “vandalism” could be recorded to show on Channel 12 news.”
Maybe even worse, the bad guy was contacted by the news reader to commit his crime.
the article now begins:
Update: Channel 12 changes tale on Confederate memorial vandalism after New Times story.
25 Aug: Phoenix New Times: Channel 12 changes tale on Confederate Memorial vandalism after New Times story
by Ray Stern
The Facebook site of the reporter, Bryan West, has been taken down, too...
Also of note, Channel 3 (KTVK-TV) and Channel 5 (KPHO-TV) published the surveillance video on AZFamily.com last week, but edited out key scenes of the suspect’s arrival and departure. AZFamily also cut out the part near the end of the video where West and the cameraman show up, and the report failed to explain to viewers that the source of the light on the memorial is a news van’s headlights.
The 911 call that West made about the vandalism has not been released by the Arizona Department of Public Safety...
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/confederate-memorial-vandalism-report-by-channel-12-news-gets-changed-video-deleted-after-new-times-story-9628634