After criticism, LAPD pulls RFK clothing from homicide exhibit

[Ken Burch]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- After scathing criticism from the son of slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, police in Los Angeles, California, have apologized for including the clothes the senator was wearing when killed in an exhibit of high-profile homicide cases.

The clothing -- a shirt, tie and jacket, with what appears to be bloodstains on the shirt -- was removed from the exhibit, "Behind-The-Scenes: The LAPD Homicide Experience," at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/04/rfk.exhibit/index.html

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Uh...is there a REASON the LAPD thought Bobby's kids would be cool with this?

[JI7]

1. not surprising it was the LAPD

[demodonkey]

2. Homicide "experience"

EXPERIENCE???

:wtf:

[Ken Burch]

3. The LAPD has a lot of experience with homicide.

Sometimes, they INVESTIGATE it, too.

[demodonkey]

4. Well I would assume most of their "customers" only experience it once...

...it's not exactly a theme park. Or maybe in LA it is???

[Wilms]

5. They threw out door jambs with bullet fragments and they hang the guys clothes.

Message? Anyone?

[Maccagirl]

6. I was just thinking about that

Didn't they "lose" literally thousands of pieces of evidence in Bobby's murder? They really screwed up PR wise by not even contacting the families before displaying these items.

[Wilms]

8. Verrrry convenient.

Not unlike the Trade Center, either.

Such destruction of evidence shows the astounding ignorance of government officials to the value of a thorough, scientific investigation of the largest fire-induced collapse in world history. I have combed through our national standard for fire investigation, NFPA 921, but nowhere in it does one find an exemption allowing the destruction of evidence for buildings over 10 stories tall.

Hoping beyond hope, I have called experts to ask if the towers were the only high-rise buildings in America of lightweight, center-core construction. No such luck. I made other calls asking if these were the only buildings in America with light-density, sprayed-on fireproofing. Again, no luck-they were two of thousands that fit the description.

Comprehensive disaster investigations mean increased safety. They mean positive change. NASA knows it. The NTSB knows it. Does FEMA know it?

No. Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the "official investigation" blessed by FEMA and run by the American Society of Civil Engineers is a half-baked farce that may already have been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure. Except for the marginal benefit obtained from a three-day, visual walk-through of evidence sites conducted by ASCE investigation committee members- described by one close source as a "tourist trip"-no one's checking the evidence for anything.

http://www.wanttoknow.info/020100fe.911investigationworldtradecenterwtccollapse

[Ken Burch]

7. Message being "Your daddy's dead! Your daddy's dead! We mighta done it, and you can't ever get us!"

(sung to the tune of the "na na, na na na" playground song.)

[Wilms]

9. Pretty much. n/t

[Cetacea]

10. +1