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The two officers were working the late shift in the 9th Precinct that night as the woman, identified as 27-year-old professional, was out drinking with friends at a bar in Brooklyn. Her blood alcohol was at least double the legal limit and possibly more, investigators said, when her friends put her in a taxi and told the driver to take her to her apartment in Manhattan.
When the driver got to her address, she was so drunk she couldn’t get out of the taxi, so he called 911 for help, prosecutor said. Mata, 27, and Moreno, 41, responded within minutes. Surveillance tape shows them helping the woman into her building and leaving a few minutes later.
via NYPD officers face rape charges.
I just love the AP, don’t you? Yes, this is a sad story, and if these officers committed the crimes of which they are accused, they should go away for a very long time, but explain to me what the description of the woman as a “professional” adds to the relating of this troubling event?
A professional what? A professional drinker? Apparently not. Is she a lawyer or a doctor? Indian chief? They don’t say. Only that the girl who drank herself silly and ended up passed out in bed face down was someone who otherwise is worthy of our respect.
That’s why they called her a “professional”. To dress her up a bit.
Which is fine if you were this woman’s mother or neighbor or good friend relating the story of her misadventure to family members, but not if you’re an “objective journalist”. What this person did for a living OR what kind of person she is is IRRELEVANT to whether she was raped by police officers.
Why didn’t they just tell us she was 27? And if they knew her profession, why not tell us she was a lawyer or a doctor?
Keep asking yourselves these questions as you read stories that are offered up by these organizations as “news”. They’re not. They’re editorials masquerading as news, and this ultimately harms us as a civilization.
I thought that when a woman is described as a “professional” without an actual profession attached, its sort of inferred that she’s involved in prostitution. That would put a spin on this story. Also, the story says that the investigation said her “blood alchohol level was twice the legal limit or more at the time her friends put her in the cab…” how would they know that if she didn’t report the crime until the next morning? It is suspicious that the officers went back there two times. A guy with 17 years on the job has a lot to loose, but people do very strange things. I guess we just have to wait and see. The AP has almost certainly convicted these two (not bothering to use the word “allegedly”, at least not what I read) and pointing out that “cocaine” was found in one of the officer’s lockers.