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Post by duke on Apr 15, 2009 15:07:15 GMT -5
Student Reported Beaten and Bleeding From Alleged Hazing Incident at UTC Posted April 15, 2009 CHATTANOOGA (WRCB) -- Chattanooga Police investigate a series of alleged hazing incidents at UTC. The incidents reportedly happened last month involving members of the UTC chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. A report was taken on April 10th from Jasmine Johnson and her mother Karen Drake. It accuses five members of the sorority in three separate incidents of hazing in which Johnson was punched in the head, chest and stomach; kicked in the stomach and back; and sprayed in the face with vinegar. After one of the incidents, Johnson told police that she had to seek medical attention for a concussion, bruising and contusions. The first alleged incident happened at the First Tennessee Pavilion next door to Finley Stadium. According to the police narrative, Johnson says she was pledging Delta Sigma Theta and told to meet sorority members there on March 20th. She says Seirra Smith approached her and punched her in the side of the head. Johnson say Smith did this several times while two other unknown girls from the sorority were behind her, pouring ice cold water on her head and shooting her with a water gun loaded with vinegar. Johnson says she was shot in the eyes with the vinegar and could not see the other girls. Four days later, the second alleged incident occurred at the Brainerd High School track on North Moore Road. Johnson says Smith approached her there while Jada Davis and Rikkee Lee poured milk and chocolate syrup on her head. Johnson says Smith broke eggs over her hair and head. Then Smith reportedly took an egg, placed it on Johnson's chest and punched it. Then Smith allegedly placed an egg on Johnson's stomach and punched her in the stomach. When Johnson rolled over, she says Smith kicked her in the stomach. Johnson says she later discovered she was bleeding from her vagina. Afterwards she was paddled on her knuckles and her legs. Johnson said she later attended a sorority ceremony where she was "pinned" as her acceptance into the sorority. Johnson said she was still suffering from bleeding and stomach pains. Her mother took her to Parkridge East Hospital where she said she was told she was suffering from a concussion, bruising and contusions to her stomach. www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10188535 |
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Apr 15, 2009 16:42:50 GMT -5
Robert T Nash was talking about this today as if there were some sort of cover-up or as he put it "repression of information." I don't believe it was very nice of him to blame the police department for the shortcomings of every single media outlet in this city "Live and Local" included. If he or anyone else wnats to know what's in every police report, all they have to do is take the time to look. Lazy journalism does NOT equal police cover up.
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Post by fftspam on Apr 16, 2009 2:46:39 GMT -5
Hey Nine thousand and six hundred plus posts in two years.......(jesuz effing crist thats a lot)
If you do not like him do not listen to him.
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Post by Police Moderator on Apr 16, 2009 4:51:51 GMT -5
I am not sure why RTN thinks that journalism is simply cutting and pasting LE press releases (Which are double hearsay) and then critiquing the hell out of the misspellings and grammar errors, instead of simply making a trip to 3300 Amnicola Highway or 601 Walnut Street or 3117 Dayton Boulevard or 4910 Swinyar Drive or 9835 Dayton Pike and getting a copy of the actual report. These reports usually contain misspellings and grammar errors, but also usually get the gist of the story right. We'll leave the grammar and spelling to those whose job it is to get that precise since we are "illiterate and diversity hires" anyway.
With the thousands of reports generated locally each day it seems too much to ask for the PIOs to psychically induce which ones are "News", or would interest RTN, and which ones would not. I am sure RTN has a brilliant mind, but I do not expect the PIOs to be able to read it.
It is the PIOs job to get info to reporters, confirm, deny or refuse to answer questions relating to the incident, who ask for it and to pick out stories which they "think" may be of interest. It is not their job to do RTN's (And other "reporters") job for them.
In the old days, every news outlet had a "scanner jumper" who would then dispatch reporters to the scene where they would get the "news" unfiltered and first hand without depending on PIOs to do it for them. Those persons have been let go for whatever reasons, so don't blame the LEOs for your inability, or unwillingness, to gather the news yourself and then report it. As an example, Tommy Eason has beaten me to the scene of a crash/crime scene on many occasions (As recently as 3 months ago) and he got the full story, with video, and with his leaving, sadly, the last of the real news reporters is gone from this area.
In the Signal Mountain fight case nearly a full hour of continuous radio traffic occurred, simultaneously as the incident unfolded, explaining in detail what was happening to anyone who cared to listen. So instantaneously the public, via the airwaves, was notified, in real time, that a fight occurred, a DUI crash occurred as a result of the flight of the fighters and that 4 people were in custody (And a plethora of other pertinent information if anyone cared to partake of the free and timely release of information in this case).
Don't blame LE if your media entity is too cheap to listen to the scanner.
RTN claims to be more breaking news than the TFP or others that simply cut and paste (Sometimes without verifying) the press releases, yet he depends solely on the PIOs to spoon feed him the news?
If that is the case, then he's not the intrepid reporter (And citizen, taxpayer and property owner) he claims to be.
If RTN is unable to actually find, and then report, what he considers "News", then he shouldn't throw the blame (For his failure to know about it) on the "illiterate and diversity hired" PIOs.
And another thing....Why do I have to "like" RTN or agree with his every idea in order to listen to him?
PS. I once purposely heinously misspelled a word directly related to a story in a press release, just to see if anyone checked it. The TFP and the Chattanoogan.com just cut and pasted the press release, with the misspelled word uncorrected, in their next editions. I always intended to cut and paste a paragraph or two from the Penthouse Forum into the middle of a Press Release just to see how far it got, but I chickened out.
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Post by Kordax on Apr 16, 2009 8:45:30 GMT -5
Given the volume of reported crimes coming into to local police agencies every day, how is it determined which ones receive a PIO's attention & an attending press release? Is it a subjective decision each individual PIO makes or is there a formal standard detailing which crimes are communicated to the media (and the public) over & above the existance of a police report?
Addendum:
It appears that Robert T., having early on accessed police reports in advance of the PIO statement, initiated the public disclosure & the attending print/TV news accounts of the sorority hazing incidents. His digging actually supports the Police Moderator's model of proactive & resourceful reporting....
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Post by Chattanooga Police on Apr 16, 2009 14:23:19 GMT -5
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Seirra Smith has been arrested in connection with hazing allegations against some UTC members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Smith turned herself in on two counts of simple assault after warrants for her arrest were signed late last night.
Sergeant Jerri S. Weary
Public Information Officer
Chattanooga Police Department
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Apr 16, 2009 16:41:08 GMT -5
"Hey Nine thousand and six hundred plus posts in two years.......(jesuz effing crist thats a lot)"
Classic Post Envy---I'm sure your post (count) will get longer after the meds kick in.
"If you do not like him do not listen to him."
Who said anything about "liking" him? He's almost as entertaining as Rush Limbaugh. The POINT that you glaringly missed is that he is trying to blame the CPD for the Media's lack of work ethic.
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Post by Tookie on Apr 16, 2009 17:25:27 GMT -5
Delta Sigma Theta
Never heard of it.
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Post by Tsavodiner on Apr 16, 2009 17:30:55 GMT -5
If you resemble your avatar, that could be why.
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Post by Tsavodiner on Apr 16, 2009 17:32:15 GMT -5
Hey Nine thousand and six hundred plus posts in two years.......(jesuz effing crist thats a lot) If you do not like him do not listen to him. There will ALWAYS be those with more to offer than others. In the instant case, I guess it just sucks to be You. |
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Post by augie47 on Apr 17, 2009 7:15:03 GMT -5
between this incident, the $300k being awarded the UTC officer and other pending cases, don't you bet the offices at UT/UTC are busy places this morning. Lots of case studies in CYA available.
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Post by augie47 on Apr 18, 2009 12:57:48 GMT -5
Did the girl get into the Sorority? according to the article: " The alleged victim said she later attended a sorority ceremony where she was "pinned" as her acceptance into the sorority" |
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Post by goomba on Apr 18, 2009 13:22:40 GMT -5
Did the girl get into the Sorority? according to the article: " The alleged victim said she later attended a sorority ceremony where she was "pinned" as her acceptance into the sorority" bullshit. any time somebody attempts to assault you, YOU FIGHT BACK!! I DONT CARE if it is an initiation ceremony... NOBODY has a right to physically harm me! and if they try, they are getting hit. period. end of discussion. also, I honestly belive there needs to be several more arrests and more charges against the persons involved as well as the sorority, and its other members who let this occour. Higher education my ass. |
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