Sgt. Largent":1e9dmhij said:
I would like the Bellevue police to release a statement as to why they felt the need to report this story in the first place.
The rumor is all the local reporters were phoning the department every five minutes asking about it, so they released a statement trying to get out ahead of the rumor mongers............but I'd like to hear it straight from the department.
I hate all this rumor mongering, what happened to waiting until you have all the facts before reporting and releasing statements?
The BPD were countering tweets that Lynch had been arrested. Can't format it properly on my phone but this is the story (Tyler is Seth Tyler, the cop assigned to the case):
" Police on release of Lynch's name.
The Reporter initially contacted the Bellevue Police Department on Monday to determine the validity of a Twitter post by @dvainio (David Vainio of Seattle) stating Lynch had been arrested in Bellevue.
Tyler told the Reporter Lynch had not been arrested, later releasing a statement that the Seahawks running back had been accused of assault and property damage at a downtown Bellevue apartment.
"The release was sent out because of inaccurate information on Twitter and other social media sites that were making much worse allegations (that Lynch was arrested), as well as media requests for the information," Tyler tells the Reporter in a Thursday email. " We determined that the right course of action was to release the facts of the allegations, via a news release, to ensure that all media, as well as the public, received the most up to date, factual information at the same time." "
http://www.bellevuereporter.com/news/27 ... obile=true