Thread by @Saintonge235

The #gamma just couldn't leave it alone. Long thread, probably boring.

By the "deputy" I presume he is talking about the School Resource Officer. The Daily Wire story that was my source said the SRO was "investigating" under the guidance of the school administration.

https://twitter.com/Deevoee/status/1451629193251459074

He now implicitly concedes that the DW story was correct: no one outside the school was called there to investigate until Scott Smith showed up.

Well before reading this latest post, I'd formed a hypothesis. Deevoe read a story about the incident, and misunderstood it.

He somehow got the idea that multiple agencies were involved. He tweeted to that effect. Then, when I asked for his source, he reread it and realized he was wrong. Rather than admit that, he tried to bluff.

All the stuff about the how stupid I was, and couldn't do a web search, was to cover the fact that he didn't have a source that supported his claim. Eventually he slipped, put in his altered quotation, and inadvertently exposed himself.

Ironically, I was prepared to believe him.

When I initially asked for his source, I thought he'd give it, I'd read it, and I'd find a story that contradicted the Daily Wire's account.

Instead, he insisted on making a fool of himself by frantically refusing to give the story URL.

Eventually, he gave a "quote" that was mildly altered, and thus not findable by search engine. What the story actually said was:

"As previously reported, Scott Smith, the parent of the victim said that he was aghast to find the incident being handled only by people who worked

at the school full-time — with the SRO seeming to take direction from the principal — rather than a team of police officers one would expect to find processing a major crime scene."

As previously noted, this USSA story quotes from the original Daily Wire story, and supports it.

But the USSA story didn't repeat all of what the Daily Wire learned.

DW reports the SRO sent a message at 1:33, then, 48 minutes later, sent the first of three additional messages. When Smith arrived, he was "aghast" at the way things were being handled, and became "irate."

The DW story goes on to say that after the deputies arrived to deal with HIM, "The team of police eventually became persuaded that what had occurred was a serious incident that required their attention, and escorted his family to the hospital where a rape kit was administered."

To sum up, according to the source story at DW, no rape kit or forensic examination of the scene till after Smith talked with the deputies, and no mention of the alleged rapes in the email the principal sent out. And the email says the principal is sending it out because . . .

"Students might have noticed Sheriff’s Office personnel on campus and I wanted to let you know that something out of the ordinary happened at school today."

And of course the Supt. informed the Board members something had happened at the same time as the SRO's first message.

"A STUDENT THAT HAS MADE ALLEGATIONS OF BEING POSSIBLY RAPED OR TOUCHED UNWANTED BY ANOTHER STUDENT A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO."

But about a month later, the school board claims not to have known of any such incident at all.

This reeks of lies and cover-up.

Had Deevoe taken his own advice, and done a websearch, or even noted that the USSA article was based on the DW story, he might have gone to the original source and saved himself some stupid errors.

But he didn't. #Interesting behavior, and common on #Twitter.

And Deevoe's claim that I was wrong comes down to a difference of interpretation concerning the SRO's actions, and the school officials' actions, prior to Scott Smith showing up at the school. I say it was a cover-up, he disagrees.

Finally, this claim appears completely exploded: "The father arrived 43 minutes later and called 911 and dispatch sent the police department (different law enforcement)." The stories say the SRO called the sheriff's office, and more deputies finally came.

Will Deevoe come up with yet another claim to "prove" how wrong I got things? I'm mildly interested to find out.

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