Let me be clear on what the general public knows and has access to: 1. footage of the officer being at Lakewood briefly, but not at the time of the incident. 2. The RCPD showing logs of the officer's whereabouts and claiming he was at Lakewood That's it. Nobody has produced anything in writing or recorded of what the principal allegedly said, nor has the principal made any statement publicly on the record. |
That is literally what I am trying to do. No assertion on this board is a verified fact. |
A statement was made by the principal on parent square. I would attach an image if I could. Literally ask any Lakewood parent. Ask Lakewood staff about the staff meeting about what the principal said. |
All of that is hearsay. Honestly, I'm not saying it isn't true. But it is odd that no image of this parent square statement has been produced anywhere. And the principal hasn't said more publicly. Why did the report not get any statement from anyone? Even the one person they talked to was anonymous. Why? And what a parent heard that a staff member said they heard from a principal is just...not real verified fact. |
Because literally no one wants to go head to head against the police? |
I mean OK. But if that is the case, what do you expect to happen here. The police say the officer was there, publicly, and show logs. Nobody is willing to come forward with any contradicting evidence....so end of story. |
The contradicting evidence is the Lakewood footage. This will come out sooner or later once media gets its hands on it through a MPIA. Just be patient. |
How is it that some footage was already released then? Who did that? (The released footage does not prove the officer was not there.) |
There’s no released footage so far. |
You’re right, my mistake. It was just an anonymous allegation in this thread. That makes it even less likely that there is an issue. We have an RCPD officer on camera “unequivocally stating” that the officer was at Lakewood and logs showing the officer was there. On the other hand we have….absolutely nothing to contradict that. |
If the principal shared the footage with Taylor, why is he covering for Rockville PD? |
It is not. By definition and practice, hearsay is an out of court statement offered in court for the truth of the matter asserted. We are not in court. |
OK. Cool. It is not verified. Nor is it backed up by anything that the public has direct access to. |
Um, no. You are wrong. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hearsay https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hearsay#google_vignette |