Our
View: Eagle Co., anti-Kobe
Wow,
this may not be a good thing for the Eagle
County
Sheriff's
Office. Not only have reports and evidence
been haphazardly handled, then in November,
they were accused of accepting T-shirts
that were printed with anti-Kobe slogans.
One shirt had Kobe's uniform number and
the phrase "I am not a rapist, I'm
just a cheater." Another shirt depicts
a stick figure drawing dangling over a game
of hangman.
Although
the spokesperson for the sheriffs department
admits to having accepted a few shirts,
for archival purposes, the question remains
of whether any sheriffs deputies also accepted
or ordered shirts.
The
real issue here is not about a few corny
T-shirts that could probably be found at
any swap meet. The real issue is that this
is a sheriff's office, one that has already
appeared as a less than on par with the
whole upholding the law thing, based on
incompetence, not malice.
It
doesn't seem just a little strange that
a law enforcement agency, one that is a
pertinent part of the prosecution, would
be so loose with their credibility as to
allow any kind of apparent bias to come
out in this kind of form. With rumors abound
that the population of blacks in Eagle County
rounds out somewhere below 15, it may be
made obvious that something stinks in Eagle
County. They can't move the trial to get
away from the prosecution, so questions
may weaken the sheriff's case.
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