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In reply to the discussion: Official: DNA ties '04 NYC death to Occupy protest (WTF is this article about?) [View all]pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)35. Yes--it looks like a false match due to police error contaminating evidence
A DNA match between material on a slain jogger's CD player in 2004 and on a chain used by Occupy Wall Street to hold open a subway entrance last year now appears very likely the result of the same person having handled both pieces of evidence, not a link between the two events, law enforcement officials told ABC News.
It appeared both DNA samples may have been tainted at a police lab before they were tested by the medical examiner's office, sources told ABC News' New York station, WABC. The material found on both the CD player and the chain may have come from a member of the NYPD who handled both items, sources said.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dna-links-occupy-wall-street-protest-slain-julliard/story?id=16753258#.T_4gyI6hC5Q
It appeared both DNA samples may have been tainted at a police lab before they were tested by the medical examiner's office, sources told ABC News' New York station, WABC. The material found on both the CD player and the chain may have come from a member of the NYPD who handled both items, sources said.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dna-links-occupy-wall-street-protest-slain-julliard/story?id=16753258#.T_4gyI6hC5Q
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Official: DNA ties '04 NYC death to Occupy protest (WTF is this article about?) [View all]
johnnie
Jul 2012
OP
I have given up on Yahoo for news. Their editorial standards (if you can call them
coalition_unwilling
Jul 2012
#2
To frighten the suspect. To let them KNOW they've got his DNA, even if they don't, really.
MADem
Jul 2012
#34
Since Occupy is leaderless and has no criteria for membership, anyone who says they are, is.
FarCenter
Jul 2012
#9
That quote is not my words--it's from the article. But you are wrong--there already HAS been a
MADem
Jul 2012
#38
You were wrong in that there WAS followup to this lousy story--that's all I meant.
MADem
Jul 2012
#46
See upthread--it was a fuckup. Lab tech working on Occupy case transferred DNA to Fox case.
MADem
Jul 2012
#39
Transparent effort by NYPD and whoever is working with them to discredit the Occupy movement
brentspeak
Jul 2012
#23
It was cross contamination. The same NYPD rep handled evidence at both scenes.
smokey nj
Jul 2012
#31
Yes--it looks like a false match due to police error contaminating evidence
pinboy3niner
Jul 2012
#35