WTVD is reporting on the Huerta protests. The most important part of the report though comes well down the page. WTVD and other news outlets got a look at text messages from city leaders. On the morning of the Huerta death, this is the exchange between Chief Jose Lopez and City Manager Tom Bonfield. At 3:32 AM Lopez texted: "17 yr old male was arrested, but not searched well and had a gun concealed, shot himself in back of police car while at the rear of police headquarters. He has died."
Folks, that is the gist of the report issued by DPD's professional responsibility and training officer six weeks after Huerta's death. The report that Lopez himself told the Mayor and City Council was not yet ready. So what was going on in those six weeks? Was the DPD looking for evidence to support what they had told the Chief in the wee hours after Huerta's death? Contrast this reticence with the DPD's conduct during the lacrosse hoax. The DPD was spewing out information, most of it erroneous, but still they had no reluctance to disclose where they were in the so called "investigation."
Walt-in-Durham
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