At lunch
during the conference, a local law student whose boyfriend works for the city
police told me that he had said that cops had taken pot away from the crime
scene where a teenage girl was tragically killed over a year ago, an event that got a lot of attention in the national media.
According
to what her boyfriend had said, the city's mayor was looking for a case to draw attention and possibly more state and national resources to the high rate of gunfire deaths in the city, and that weekend the decision
went down to make that death the attention-getting case...
Supposedly,
the girl wasn’t with her friends when she was killed, but had broken away from them to go over to her dealer when she was shot.
Then, the cops cleaned up the scene and took away any signs of a drug deal.
. . .
I find
that rumor implausible:
How could the
mayor really have that done without any trace of a communication, let alone find out
about the situation and relay back his decision for the pot to be
removed before all the details of the crime scene had been recorded by the police in their reports?
Overall,
I wonder if this isn’t just a rumor among racist white cops, to justify the
death of a black high school student by making her seem less sympathetic and
somehow responsible for bringing her death onto herself.
Also, reading this back over, the rumor makes the city's mayor all-seeing and darkly cunning, almost like the Mayor in 3rd season Buffy.
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