Truth may be shaped

The tragic shooting of Scott Creach, a pastor, respected longtime Spokane businessman and radio personality, by a Spokane Valley police officer was headline news, as it very well should be.

As I understand it, the cruel, arrogant “lawman” would not even allow Mr. Creach’s family members to go to his side until a long time after his death.

The “law officers” are (not surprisingly!) “releasing few details” regarding the matter. Why, of course not. It will take quite some time to concoct a story that will cause the grieving family and the public to swallow. A soon-to-come “story” will picture Mr. Creach as being the “bad guy” responsible for his own death in the parking lot of his own business.

But not to worry, the “truth” will come out. (Ha!) The matter is being “investigated” by the city of Spokane Police Department. Yeah, the department from which a “squad” of officers dashed into a store and ended up killing Otto Zehm, an innocent, unarmed, mentally challenged gentleman who had had the audacity to go into the store simply to buy a bottle of pop. Or was it a candy bar?

Ken Campbell

Deer Park

It truly is a tragedy that Mr. Creach met such an untimely and unfortunate end. But I wonder if the media would have had such a massive “feeding frenzy” about him and his death if the dear soul would have died in his sleep or died in any other way? Is all this really about Mr. Creach or magnifying yet another opportunity to malign some of our county’s best? Just a thought.

Donna Potter Phillips

Spokane