Nov 6, 2007 8:59 am US/Central
In The Know: Helping Killers, Hurting Families
(WCCO)
Police have a man in custody in the death of Mark Loesch, the bicyclist killed in Minneapolis. But the police went further, suggesting that Loesch was killed by drug dealers with a baseball bat as he tried to buy marijuana. Don Shelby reminds, the police got that scenario from the bad guy.
Why would the police trash a man's reputation based on the confession of a drug dealer, maybe even a killer?
This kind of claim is the province of defense attorneys, who are trying to put the best face on a killing, with the hope of lowering a charge from the wanton taking of an innocent life to a drug deal gone bad. It doesn't make sense that the police, part of the prosecution, would make announcements that benefit the alleged killers.
The family of Mark Loesch and his employers say drugs were not in his life and the tox screen showed no drugs in his system.
But that makes no difference now. His wife and children, thanks to the police, are stuck with that image.
They say police just said
that to make folks feel safe that the crime wasn't random, but there is no evidence for that accusation either.
But when a dead victim's reputation is at stake, I guess I'm not going to take the word of a jammed-up drug dealer with a baseball bat.
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