Poison the Well
Sinclair Media can always find a new low, as they did with the investigative reporter into the house in which a former cop murdered a man.
Here are some facts you might not remember about the murder of Andre Hill, which occurred last December at the hands of former Columbus police officer Adam Coy:
Coy, who had a history of violent misconduct on the job, fatally shot Hill four times within 30 seconds of arriving on the scene of a non-emergency call.
The cops frantically searched the garage for 10 minutes looking for a non-existent weapon to justify the shooting as Coy bled to death on the garage floor. What Coy thought was a weapon was actually Hill’s phone.
Coy was arrested and charged with murder. The shooting was so egregious that the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #9, one of the most powerful cop locals in the country, which has made no qualms of defending murderers and criminals within their ranks, refused to protect him.
The city of Columbus has agreed to a $10 million settlement—paid out of the general fund—with Hill’s family.
Coy is scheduled for trial in March 2022. His request for a change of venue was denied in August while the ostensible lifetime public servant couldn’t be bothered to wear his mask properly over his mouth and nose.
Yes, it’s surreal to see a dipshit cop on the fast track to justice in Central Ohio. But there is still a corporate media entity willing to investigate whether Andre Hill had his shooting coming on account of police being called the house “numerous times” before he was shot in his garage while delivering Christmas money to a friend.
Sinclair Media, a notorious right-wing propaganda network masquerading as a legitimate news source, owns both FOX28 and ABC6 in Columbus, which is why both stations advertised ABC6’s “explosive" investigation into the house in which Hill lost his life because the CDP sent a stooge armed with a gun to a non-emergency call.
Sinclair bought ads during Ohio State and Browns games. The ad buy makes sense when you realize that sports fans are usually targeted by alcohol, weight-loss and boner pill companies. That is to say, they don’t see us as physically fit intellectuals.
Here is what ABC6 found during its month-long investigation:
ABC6 On Your Side Investigates obtained 911 calls and Columbus police body camera video for 1062 Oberlin Drive dating back to the fall of 2019.
That September, an officer’s knock breaks the night silence.
There was no answer and the calls to the police didn’t stop.
Instead, the calls became more frequent and volatile in 2020.
Are any arrests mentioned? No. Are any convictions mentioned? Also no. But this won’t stop intrepid reporter Tara Morgan talking about this to insinuate that Hill had it coming.
Remember that woman from the body camera video of Hill’s shooting that screamed at the cops that Hill had only come to the house to give her Christmas money? It turns out that she deserved that lifetime of trauma from seeing her friend bleed to death on a garage floor:
For months, 6 On Your Side Investigates looked for [Dystanie] Lydelle even though several relatives told us she would be hard to find.
We never did find Lydelle.
Police records show she was known for theft, drugs, and prostitution.
Again, notice how there is no mention of any conviction or even an arrest. It’s just “police records” that “show” she was “known for” theft, drugs and prostitution.
It’s despicable stuff, which is to say it’s typical bang-up work from Sinclair Media.
But you have to have passing familiarity with the case to know what an abomination this “investigation” proved to be. And how many people could pass that rudimentary test among the millions of Central Ohioans that saw these ads and the following report over the weekend? A guess of 10% would be charitable.
No, I can only imagine Sinclair’s ultimate goal is to poison the potential jury pool for Coy’s trial in March. After all, you don’t need to convince a jury of your peers to escape a conviction. You only need to convince one soul on that jury.
The ads and the subsequent report served to poison that potential jury pool. To plant the seed that Andre Hill hung around drug-addicted prostitutes and lived in a crack den, so who could possibly blame Officer Coy for being on edge while responding to a report of a black male repeatedly starting and idling his car on private property?
Between ABC6 publishing this racist nonsense and last week’s amplification of random Facebook commenters painting affordable housing as a gateway to crime, it’s clear that the hobgoblin overlords at Sinclair are working overtime to turn us against our neighbors.
They want us looking down the social hierarchy, placing our society ills not on our corporate overlords but on everyday people like you and me. And make no mistake, they’re wining.
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But...she is a prostitute. You can find her arrests and mugshots everywhere. She's been arrested multiple times in the last 12 months....latest arrest 4/30/2023.