Witty: "...strange, apparently anti-intellectual rhetoric of yours" wasn't necessary to make the same, or ask the same question.Ah, I see: So we have to be nicer to dios than we are to anybody else? OK, now we know.
“The sheriff’s office takes these things very seriously, so we investigate them thoroughly,” Wempe said. “Our hope is that we end up finally at the end of a successful investigation and find the truth.”The subtext being that the police don't assume that "the truth" is contained in the victim's statement. They're presuming that it's at least partly false before they start.
Mirecki’s resignation comes as some call into question the accuracy of his police report.posted by lodurr at 5:23 AM on December 9, 2005
According to John Altevogt, a conservative activist in Kansas, Mirecki has been unable to even identify the street on which his alleged beating occurred.
“There’s also confusion about whether or not he called from the spot or whether he called from the hospital,” Altevogt said. “If he can’t tell them where the alleged assault took place — the closest he’s come is two different streets, two rural roads — so how are they going to collect evidence? He couldn’t [even] tell them where on those rural roads it was.”
Altevogt also said Mirecki’s description of his attackers — white, 30-40 years old, wearing jeans and driving a big pickup truck — fits “half the population of Kansas.”
Also odd, Altevogt noted, is the lack of support from Mirecki’s colleagues at KU, epitomized, he said, by his fellow professors’ requests for him to resign as department chair.
“At a time when you’d think his colleagues would rally around the flag, they in fact have asked him to resign,” he said. “If this is a ‘for real’ thing, you would think they would rally around him in the face of this horrendous attack and do something.”
Lt. Kari Wempe of the Douglas County (Kan.) Sheriff’s Office would not comment on Altevogt’s speculation and added there has been nothing new to report since Mirecki first spoke of his attack.
“That is a public opinion,” Wempe said, adding she has not been told of any inconsistencies in the professor’s report. “That’s not a law-enforcement opinion.”
He said he was interviewed by officers several times, “once for five hours straight. They keep asking me the same things over and over. They seized my car; they entered my office and seized my computer. They said they need them for their investigation but it didn’t make any sense to me.”His academic career is more or less officially toast (he's had to resign as chair and everyone is canceling his speaking engagements). The university is on record against him and seems determined to drive him out (the chancellor made public statements in opposition to him before the alleged attack, and he's saying that the Dean's Office literally gave him the letter of resignation and told him to sign it).
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posted by Dormant Gorilla at 8:14 AM on December 6, 2005