L.A. Times dumps Ted Rall over allegedly untrue blog post on jaywalking

[Newsjock]

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-rall-20150728-story.html

In a May 11 post on The Times' OpinionLA blog, Ted Rall — a freelance cartoonist whose work appears regularly in The Times — described an incident in which he was stopped for jaywalking on Melrose Avenue in 2001. Rall said he was thrown up against a wall, handcuffed and roughed up by an LAPD motorcycle policeman who also threw his driver's license into the sewer. Rall also wrote that dozens of onlookers shouted in protest at the officer's conduct.

Since then, the Los Angeles Police Department has provided records about the incident, including a complaint Rall filed at the time. An audiotape of the encounter recorded by the police officer does not back up Rall's assertions; it gives no indication that there was physical violence of any sort by the policeman or that Rall's license was thrown into the sewer or that he was handcuffed. Nor is there any evidence on the recording of a crowd of shouting onlookers.

... However, the recording and other evidence provided by the LAPD raise serious questions about the accuracy of Rall's blog post. Based on this, the piece should not have been published.

Rall's future work will not appear in The Times.

[SamKnause]

1. Stupid f**k.

Why do people have to make up bullshit ???

Police brutality is a serious situation !!!!

This clown deserves to be fired for lying.

[geek tragedy]

2. Ted Rall is a no-talent lowlife who manages to get himself fired

from every gig, who is notorious for kicking down, mocking widows and the developmentally disabled, for example.

[Dr. Strange]

3. #TedRall'sLifeMatters

[Starry Messenger]

4. His stuff has been riding the rims for awhile.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. ZZZzzzz.