The fact that charges were dropped and the record expunged in Paul Nichols 2006 arrest says nothing about his conduct and judgment during the incident. Mr. Nichols says he was the victim of police
misconduct.
This raises the following questions: Did he file a complaint? Was there an investigation? Was officer misconduct substantiated? Was the officer disciplined? Did the officer or department apologize? An
affirmative answer to these would make this incident irrelevant and entitle Mr. Nichols to an apology from Mr. Anderson. This incident happened three years ago and a little investigative reporting should be
able to ascertain the facts.
Mr. Nichols says he has a witness to the officer misconduct, shouldn’t we hear what the arresting officer has to say? Again a little newspaper work to get at the facts. As to the release of Mr. Nichols
Social Security Number, the block for SSN on the arrest report is blank; if Mr. Nichols SSN appears on the report, it was your editorial and his campaign that revealed that fact. Maybe Mr. Nichols is a
victim, and if the facts support that he’s owed an apology, but sometimes good and intelligent people allow their ego to cloud their judgment and they end up in handcuffs in the back of a police cruiser.
Good reporting, not a water carrying editorial, can tell us the rest of the story.
ROBERT DIXON Jr.
Woodbridge
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