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Monday, August 5, 2013

HIJACKING THE NEWS IN MAPLE HEIGHTS

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Let's get this straight.


Channel 3 does a news report about a former Maple Heights police officer being accused of excessive force [who, by the way, was allowed to remain on the force until this year, and then allowed to resign (?)]; and then Channel 3 turns around and allows a sitting mayor to counter the bad press by doing a news clip about what a great job Maple Heights is doing hiring (what?) 7 Maple Heights landscapers (during the summer) to mow the grass on the hundreds of vacant properties in Maple Heights (where people have either walked away from or lost their homes)


What the hell!!



What a fickle press and what a great slick public relations job.



Black people in Maple Heights are complaining that there are more cases of excessive force and acts of police intimidation, and that gets brushed aside by what looks like, a predominately white government (in a predominately African American city) that appears more concerned with shutting people up and whitewashing and hijacking the news.  PRICELESS!!