I peeked over in O.com and there was no discussion about this. Interesting since it involved a police officer.
Knowing the media and it's habit of getting simple facts wrong I was not expecting much but was still distressed over the lack of real investivagtive and informational reporting done in the story.
Add to that the continued bluring of the lines between the decription of Security Guard vs police officer. This is a major pet peeve of mine.
Beginning with quotes like
a hospital security guard fired a stun gun
Then, several paragraphs into the story we read-
David Boling, an off-duty Houston police officer working security at the hospital, and another security guard can be seen on the surveillance video arriving at the elevators and trying to talk with Lewis.
We have enough problems with the general public misidentifying us. Even people who saw the story on ABC.com made comments such as
security guards are not the brightest people on the job,
It's time the press began clearly making the distinction between police officers working extra duty assignments, aka Rentacop details, and actual security officers.
Please, think of the children.
Thanks for reading.
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