The media and press in Santa Maria, California is feeling abused over being fed fake news. In order to prevent two murders and round up a dozen murderers, the Santa Maria Police Chief said two gang members had been deported. In fact they were placed in protective custody. The media screams foul and cites trust. The same media that runs false narratives about police brutality. Do you think the police chief did the right thing?
As Reported by the Associated Press:
Police investigating a notorious gang in a city on
California’s central coast issued a fake press release that the chief
credited with saving two men by deceiving gang members who wanted to
kill them, but the ruse was criticized by news organizations who
reported it as fact.
Santa Maria Police Chief Ralph Martin defended the
rare tactic this week when it came to light, saying he had never done
such a thing in his 43-year career, but he wouldn’t rule out doing it
again.
“It was a moral and ethical decision, and I stand
by it,” Martin said Friday. “I am keenly aware and sensitive to the
community and the media. I also had 21 bodies lying in the city in the
last 15 months.”
The phony announcement issued in February was
discovered in court documents and only reported this week by the Santa
Maria Sun, a weekly newspaper in the city 140 miles northwest of Los
Angeles.
The daily newspaper and local television stations
were unaware the information in the release was false when they reported
that two men, Jose Santos Melendez, 22, and Jose Marino Melendez, 23,
had been….
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