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Source: Arkansas Times
The Jonesboro Sun reports that Sunshine Crump resigned as the newspaper's police reporter after a "tense" relationship with Police Chief Mike Yates.
The newspaper reported that Yates had made multiple comments on his Facebook page that were derogatory about Crump. The paper cited these comments:
* Wonder if ole Sunshine (reporter) could pass a drug test, Yates wrote on one post. Why yes, she has been arrested before.
* Pro-dope smoking, law license revoked, left wing liberal, smelly, arrested by police, unscrupulous reporter.
* This is the kind of journalism we have now ... ask ole Sunshine (reporter) why her law license got suspended next time you see her.
* Reminds me of a song ... aint no Sunshine when shes gone etc.
* Dealing with ole Sunshine is like trying to pick up a dog turd by the clean end.
Other police officers and others commented in support of the chief, the Sun article said.
The level of stress and anxiety created by a public official who commands a small army, and who targets someone in such a manner for First Amendment protected activities is hard to measure, Crump wrote in a resignation letter to Sun editors.
Read more: http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2014/08/20/jonesboro-sun-reporter-quits-over-tension-with-city-police-chief-his-facebook-comments-a-factor
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)And really nailed the asshole in her reporting.
valerief
(53,235 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)It's really up to the citizens. If they don't care if the police harass an honest reporter, she doesn't have a chance and is really setting herself up for disaster.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Back in the 90s, I knew a woman who had to leave small-town South Carolina after a local corrupt politician she was writing about threatened to kill her (she wasn't recording at the time, so it was his word against hers)...To make things worse, she wasn't getting a lot of support from her paper or the community -- She was a New Yorker, so they already had a resentment towards her from day one...
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Love to see what's behind his closet door.
msongs
(67,441 posts)tblue37
(65,487 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)1monster
(11,012 posts)Herman:
Which is about the maturity level of that police chief...