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If you need a perfect example of the reckless relationship
Posted on: November 21, 2017 at 20:44:11 CT
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between the police and the media, then look no farther than the big local story here in Kansas City. Luckily, this story had enough publicity to force some follow up fact checking by the lazy media of the reckless early steps taken by the KCPD.
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Immediately after the 8 a.m. shooting, police announced they were looking for a white 1997 Chevrolet van with Missouri license 6FA 453. Within hours, David Jungerman’s name was linked to the van on Twitter and in some local media reports. The Star has not named Jungerman until now with his consent after he spoke to a Star reporter more than a dozen times in the past 10 days.
“People have me guilty because they indicate it was my van that was there,” Jungerman said. “So people that I’ve known for years turn their back when I walk by.
“They look at me like I’m a murderer.”
Witnesses told investigators that a white van and an older, gray-haired man were at the scene of the shooting, according to a search warrant application police filed to examine the van.
“We were looking for a vehicle, a vehicle that matched the description that we were given by many witnesses at the scene,” Sgt. Thompson said. “That is what we were looking for ... and that is what we actually searched and looked through.”
Jungerman said his van had been parked on his property that entire day. He believes police took the details in the suspect van description from his vehicle registration records — not from a witness.
Thompson would not comment on that assertion.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article183713501.html
Edited by ummmm at 20:44:25 on 11/21/17
Excerpt:
Immediately after the 8 a.m. shooting, police announced they were looking for a white 1997 Chevrolet van with Missouri license 6FA 453. Within hours, David Jungerman’s name was linked to the van on Twitter and in some local media reports. The Star has not named Jungerman until now with his consent after he spoke to a Star reporter more than a dozen times in the past 10 days.
“People have me guilty because they indicate it was my van that was there,” Jungerman said. “So people that I’ve known for years turn their back when I walk by.
“They look at me like I’m a murderer.”
Witnesses told investigators that a white van and an older, gray-haired man were at the scene of the shooting, according to a search warrant application police filed to examine the van.
“We were looking for a vehicle, a vehicle that matched the description that we were given by many witnesses at the scene,” Sgt. Thompson said. “That is what we were looking for ... and that is what we actually searched and looked through.”
Jungerman said his van had been parked on his property that entire day. He believes police took the details in the suspect van description from his vehicle registration records — not from a witness.
Thompson would not comment on that assertion.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article183713501.html
Edited by ummmm at 20:44:25 on 11/21/17
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