''We're watching you, Mr. Cooper'' (Wilmington J re: Lacrosse case)

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OUR VOICE
"WE'RE WATCHING YOU, MR. COOPER"
WEEK OF JANUARY 18-24, 2007
by EDITORIAL STAFF
The Wilmington Journal
Originally posted 1/18/2007

... From the moment the accuser and Kim Roberts Pittman, the second dancer, arrived to perform their show, to when they left in a huff with racial slurs flying back and forth, we really don’t have a cogent and cohesive picture ...

Mike Nifong is now busy trying to figure out how best to keep his law license from being shredded by the State Bar. So surely all of these brave, upstanding, fine young leaders of tomorrow – many of whom .. peed off the patio and railed against two Black strippers because the players’ raucous behavior scared the daylights out of them – are relieved, and will now graciously, and willingly, sit down with SBI agents and, for the very first time in ten long months, actually truthfully tell what they saw and heard.

Under threat of obstructing justice, of course.

You can’t play games with this, Mr. Cooper. Those boys must talk if you’re doing a full and transparent investigation. You have to be willing to also charge anyone else who may have committed a crime (like who went into the accuser’s bag and took the $400.00 in cash she was just paid? After careful and deliberate research of laws in at least 80 nations, including this one, we believe that that’s generally called a ROBBERY!!!) ...

http://wilmingtonjournal.blackpressusa.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=75485&sID=34

<edit: typo>