A video of a Whitehall police officer wrestling an 84-year-old woman to get a steak knife away from her in a Wal-Mart parking lot has exploded into a YouTube phenomenon.
The video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on the video sharing site, and Whitehall Chief Richard Zitzke said his department has fielded hundreds of calls from people all over the United States.
"We've been barraged with calls because some idiot radio station in Pittsburgh construed their own idea of what happened and suggested that everybody in the country call the Whitehall police," the chief said.
Zitzke said the department is issuing a written statement this afternoon to counter the negative publicity and to set the record straight.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/08/11/viral_vid.html?sid=101I'd love to know what "idiot radio station in Pittsburgh" cause they are all RW talk?