Family angry with Illinois police for going silent over gay man’s death during traffic stop

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/02/family-angry-with-illinois-police-for-going-silent-over-gay-mans-death-during-traffic-stop/



Family angry with Illinois police for going silent over gay man’s death during traffic stop
By David Ferguson
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 12:51 EDT

The family of a 31-year-old gay man from Carpentersville, Illinois are frustrated with the lack of information they have been able to get about his death after what should have been a routine traffic stop by police.

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The Daily Herald‘s Madhu Krishnamurthy spoke to Brian Perkins, an attorney representing Paul’s family, who said, “At this point, the family wants to know what happened. Clearly something went wrong. He left (home) healthy and fine. There was no clue that he wouldn’t come back. He was 100 percent normal.”

Weeks after his death, Paul’s family have not been given any explanation about what caused his death, what his injuries were when he arrived at the hospital, or if he was conscious and able to explain what happened when he arrived.

“They haven’t received any information from the Carpentersville Police Department or Illinois State Police because the investigation is still pending,” Perkins told Krishnamurthy. “It’s a mystery now. We obviously respect the law enforcement process and it has to take place in a controlled manner.”

[Cooley Hurd]

1. I just clicked thru to the original story via RawStory and...

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20140828/news/140828267/

It's been redacted? All of the text in the story is missing.

[tblue37]

2. My guess is that just as in Ferguson the police are reluctant to

release any information because it takes time to get all their little cover-up duckies in a row.

In Ferguson, the cops had such a long history of getting away with things that they put out information of a sort that couldn't fool a first-grader, even though it would have sufficed in every situation in the past--just as it is still accepted by those who always think it justifiable when a cop harasses and then kills a black man.

As a result of their release of such weak excuses, they are getting burned nationally and internationally. Furthermore, because the info they have released has already been shown to be contradicted by actual evidence as well as several coinciding eyewitness accounts, even though they have clammed up now, and Wilson is being kept hidden and silent, their release of flawed cover-up claims makes it that much harder to construct a plausible defense now.

By keeping silent while they figure out the best narrative to accommodate the available evidence, the police department in this case are probably doing their best to prevent some late revealed evidence from scuttling their story.