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Police union files defamation suit
http://www.omaha.com/article/20120510/NEWS97/705119928#police-union-files-defamation-suit
Published Thursday May 10, 2012
By Roseann Moring and Todd Cooper
The Omaha police union has filed a defamation lawsuit against a local activist for accusing a police officer of killing a gang member.
Not only was Officer Ryan Sedlacek not present or on duty when Jimmy Levering was shot to death in 2011, the lawsuit says, but the bullet that killed Levering wasn't from a police officer's firearm.
The Omaha Police Officers Association filed the lawsuit Thursday against Mark Welsch on behalf of Sedlacek, who has retired because of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Welsch is “accusing somebody literally of killing somebody else,” said union president John Wells. “It's not like you're accusing him of jaywalking, of having bad taste in music.”
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