Letter: Reporting on Ferguson cop lags
Ferguson residents light candles at a memorial for Michael Brown on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. Credit: AP
While Newsday and many other media outlets saw fit to sensationalize the seemingly tragic shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, by making it front-page news for weeks, isn't it ironic that as autopsy facts and eyewitness testimony come to light, the story can only be found on Page A7 ["Witnesses, data are said to back Ferguson cop," News, Oct. 23]?
I'm hardly surprised. Facts that will likely lead to the exoneration of a police officer are never as appealing as an opportunity to inflame racial tensions or bash the police.
Dominick A. Barone, Seaford
