Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Police Error May Have Created False DNA Link Between Occupy Wall Street Protest and 2004 Julliard
Student Slaying
A DNA match between material on a slain jogger's CD player in 2004 and on a chain used by Occupy Wall Street to hold open a subway entrance last year now appears very likely the result of the same person having handled both pieces of evidence, not a link between the two events, law enforcement officials told ABC News.
It appeared both DNA samples may have been tainted at a police lab before they were tested by the medical examiner's office, sources told ABC News' New York station, WABC. The material found on both the CD player and the chain may have come from a member of the NYPD who handled both items, sources said.
The initial disclosure that there was a DNA match suggested the possibility that a protester may have been linked to the sex assault. That no longer appears to be the case.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dna-links-occupy-wall-street-protest-slain-julliard/story?id=16753258#.T_4lCI6hC5R
24 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
= new reply since forum marked as read
It's written down, so technically it's libel. 
I rarely start threads, but I didn't want any of the OWS haters to miss this. 
The anti-Occupy Ayn-Randers on DU were bemoaning our lack of "compassion". At least we waited for the evidence. 
My heart goes out to Sarah Fox and her family. 
May her killer be found to give her family peace.
I knew that sounded too CT!! 
