S-R, wait for facts

Sun., Nov. 15, 2015

There’s a brand new “police scandal” afoot. I am writing to ask you and your editorial board to please refrain from printing unverified facts and halfway true items before the honest facts are known and settled.

I feel sure that Spokane Police Officer Doug Strosahl and Sgt. Gordon Ennis would be grateful for a fair shake from The Spokesman-Review. Unfortunately, there is an extremely unpleasant history of this paper’s attacking police officers in the stories they report, and I am sick about it.

I know neither of these officers, nor the woman involved, and I do not know any others in the police department, so I do not offer a prejudiced view in their favor. I am simply asking that you wait to comment until you know what you are saying is the truth and that you are not slanting it.

Julie Sanborn

Spokane

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