CNN Acts as Accessory after the Fact, in Trying to Get Tessa Majors’ Killers Off by Smearing Police Detective

CNN Doubts Tessa Majors Investigator

Truth or Consequences

“These allegations of a pattern of serious misconduct cast further doubt on the case against
our client, and given Acevedo’s long problematic history of violating New Yorkers’
constitutional rights, he simply cannot be regarded as credible.”
- Attorney Hannah Kaplan, New York, NY, December 23, 2019
CNN’s Alec Synder followed a well-worn pattern by mainstream media outlets of besmirching law enforcement and casting doubt on the criminality of black suspects today.

For many observers the phenomenon began 35 years ago this week when a scrawny electrical engineer named Bernhard Goetz shot four thugs trying to rob him aboard an empty Manhattan subway car.

Goetz was dubbed the “Subway Vigilante,” and by the time the Big Apple press and the court system was done with him, Goetz had served eight months in prison and owed one of his attackers $43 million.

ABCNNBCBS made continuous use of a five-year old photograph of 17-year old delinquent Trayvon Martin in 2013 who died when a neighborhood watchman shot him in self-defense. Newswriters nicknamed 295-pound Michael Brown, 18, the “Gentle Giant” despite his manhandling a shopkeeper and rushing a Ferguson, Missouri patrolman, August 9, 2014.

Americans have been misled by press fictionalizations of Staten Island’s Eric Garner, Baltimore’s Freddy Gray, and thousands of other black criminals whose cases remained at the local level.

And this summer’s Netflix imagination of the Central Park rape and brutal beating of Trisha Meili in 1989 may represent a new trend: Convincing young Americans of the innocence of criminals in matters from before they were born.

Add the voices who championed Rodney King and doubted O.J. Simpson’s guilt and it’s fair to say the fifth estate has been dreadful for race relations for at least two generations.

When a telegenic Barnard College student named Tessa Majors died at the hands of three Harlem middle schoolers, December 11, elements in the New York media trumpeted a “rush to judgement” and sought to draw parallels to the “exonerated” quintet from 1989.

Now “the most trusted name in news” has bit on the same bait.

“Detective Involved in Barnard Student Case Faces Allegations He Falsified Evidence in Other Cases” blared CNN’s online page at midday.

Snyder writes, “The cases were highlighted by the Legal Aid Society in an email to CNN. Hannah Kaplan, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society, represents a 13-year old boy who has been arrested and charged in connection with the killing earlier this month.”

Kaplan complains, “In two cases, both filed in April 2018 [Detective Wilfredo], Acevedo was accused of ‘forcibly search(ing) plaintiff and his residence without his consent and used unnecessary and unreasonable force against plaintiff without any legal justification or provocation.’

“Acevedo’s troubled past, which includes lawsuits alleging that he planted and falsified evidence, lied in court documents, and used excessive force, coupled with three substantiated disciplinary findings from the Civilian Complaint Review Board, is of great concern.”

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea rallied to Acevedo’s defense and Snyder quotes his statement: “The calculated, personal attacks against a member of the investigative team working to solve the murder of Tessa Majors is an obvious and unethical effort to make prejudicial statements outside the courtroom to effect a jury pool.”

Yet Snyder, whose personal website boasts he graduated summa cum laude with a degree in journalism from George Washington University, saved the best for last before summarizing the Majors meanderings to date.

“The original charges (against Acevedo), were dismissed in both cases, court documents show.”

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