news director of Seattle TV station resigns over 'suppression of video" accusations - police stompin

[Liberal_in_LA]

NEWS DIRECTOR AT KCPQ-TV RESIGNS IN WAKE OF VIDEO UPROAR
May 14, 2010



(SEATTLE, WA) –The news director at KCPQ-TV in Seattle has resigned his position at the station.

New Director Steve Kraycik announced his resignation to station staff Thursday morning, just two days after the station apologized for taking too long to air a video of alleged Seattle police brutality and after being widely criticized in the community for attempting to curry favor with police by doing so.

The station had come under heavy criticism in the past week both from the free lance videoagrapher who shot the piece to members of the general public to the Seattle-King County office of the NAACP, for not airing the video of the April 17 incident when it had the opportunity to do so.

The NAACP accused the station of “suppression of news.”

The now widely circulated video showed Seattle Police Detective Shandy Cobane stomping on a young Latino man’s head and yelling "I'm going to beat the f---ing Mexican piss out of you homey. You feel me?" during a robbery investigation in the South Lake Union area as well as another Seattle officer, Mary Woollum, stomping on the man’s leg while he remained face down on the pavement.

On Tuesday, the station released a statement calling allegations that it purposely suppressed the video as "completely false." The statement said management felt it was important to learn as much as possible about the circumstances surrounding the incident captured on the video before it aired the video and in the process, “we took too long to do so and should have reported the story sooner.”


http://www.skyvalleychronicle.com/MISCELLANEOUS-NEWS-ITEMS/NEWS-DIRECTOR-AT-KCPQ-TV-RESIGNS-IN-WAKE-OF-VIDEO-UPROAR-366646

[HereSince1628]

1. Even when the SYSTEM is horribly wrong...it protects itself.

Remember the SYSTEM? We've only been fighting it forever.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. thank goodness for the internet

[Rex]

2. Hey if the New York Times can sit on a story for a year

that would have incriminated the WH for illegal wiretapping, then we've already lost. Police beating/killing innocent people is not new, how many media outlets suppress the stories and with what frequency may be.


When I was a kid we would laugh at the crazy nekked man running around third base and getting tackled close to the dugout...now they just get tazered and dropped like cold fish to flop around on the jumbotron. New World Order, same shitty aftertaste.

[LiberalFighter]

3. They had to learn as much as possible about the circumstances?

Excuse me but it was news and they should had shown it. Screw the cops! If the cops didn't do anything wrong then at least they have the avenue to provide the details out in the open. But when they don't allow it to be broadcast then there is the belief that someone is hiding something.