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KingCast says the Motorola manual and 20/20 converge in one day on the Franconia shooting tragedy; looks like ABC News & 20/20 soft-peddled the Truth.

By Christopher King

Well as promised by Franconia town counsel Dan Mullen, today the Bruce McKay Motorola Manual should arrive at my door so we will know whether he was really on mute for those last 6 minutes of his life, because he KNOW he turned off his front seat microphone for some reason as he attacked Liko Kenney and Caleb Macaulay. I spoke with the manufacturer of the Kustom Signals Eyewitness dash cam and got that much straight.

Good thing the locals notified me of tomorrow's 20/20 episode.

Here is "the story:"

And here is the first ABC News feature which seemed relatively balanced. They soon quit that route, however, with a pathetic feature called "Officer Down."

Here is what you need to know about the history of 20/20 in the area.

On to my review of the "story."

Prologue i: Who among you in Franconia has ever seen the Complaint policies purportedly set in place from the early '90's (one and two) or as revised after February, 2006 (three and four), which was created after some sort of complaint that I have asked for pursuant to RSA 91-A. I don't know if 20/20 is interested in any of that, apparently not.

Prologue ii: No mention of Martha McLeod's failed HB 1428 "Bruce McKay Highway" at all, which was soundly rejected because of the will of the people of North Country. Government mails from Martha McLeod and others are owed, a lawsuit is coming and people are watching. The new writer I'm working with and meeting for tennis tomorrow may indeed be focusing on this aspect of the tragedy; specifically what the community and the Franconia Recovery and Reconciliation Committee felt about the police presence in Franconia leading up to 5/11. Here is what one of the members had to say. "....it seems [KingCast] is the only one in the print and electronic media , with any brass to go after the real story." We talk with locals in the short film "Franconia 5/11: Injustice on Stilts," and we are about to talk to more of them soon.

One: In the first paragraph they mention that McKay sprayed Liko and Caleb but don't mention that he violated 7 pursuit and OC Spray policies to do so. The policies were put in place specifically because violating them could cause a violent reaction from the suspect.

Two: They then the call it a "high speed chase" when the government's own files indicate otherwise:

"The grey car was not going fast. I thought [McKay] was trying to get around it [for something else]. He made several movements (her daughter called it a "10-point turn" in her interview) to come nose to nose now facing north.... [McKay] pushed him and kept pushing him down (into the gravel area) dirt flew back the police car pushed him so strongly and just kept pushing and pushing and pushing until the grey car was beyond my view."

Three: They then quote Strelzin as saying McKay had run across the road and gone up about 30 feet off the road and on to the grass. Liko Kenny pursued him across the road in his car, ran up off the road, and struck him twice with his car, said Strelzin.

....Of course leaving out the fact that Floyd's own son at pdf 745 said that Liko's car never struck McKay until after Floyd started shooting at Liko, and also the fact that that Floyd lied about ever speaking to Liko first as clearly noted by the location of Bruce McKay's spent casings.

Four: They quote the less damaging part of what Robbie Hayward told them: When Rob Hayward, one of Kenney's friends, looks at the video he sees "a young guy who has been harassed a number of times and really, really believed -- because he told us -- that they were going to get him."

....because he straight-up looked me in the eye in the living room of one of Liko's friends and said he told them:

"Both men had good qualities about them but that MCKay was a liability and that the State had a greater responsibility to monitor the situation, and that Liko was pushed into a corner."

Five: And of course they don't mention the fact that McKay by his own words and actions caught on tape likely violated Liko's Constitutional Rights in the 2003 traffic stop, which was the real reason he was "lenient" at Liko's sentencing. They say Liko was arrested "with great difficulty," but really his person had already been seized without probable cause by the way McKay parked his car and by his own works saying so. The line of cases by Judge Cyr noting as much is right here, specifically:
State v. Nathan Wright 03-CR-109
State v. William Miller 03-CR-012, 013, 029

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Six: And the kicker: They ask Sharon Davis "McKay" who cannot legally use McKay's last name as a wife, even at common law because they haven't known each other long enough pursuant to RSA 457:39 whether she thought that Liko Kenney "got what he deserved."

Isn't the real question whether Bruce McKay got what HE was asking for or deserved, as noted by State Rep Sorg and many others? Read the Union Leader 13 Jan. 2008 editorial "Memorial for McKay? Let Franconia Decide."

As for Rep. Gregory Sorg, R-Easton, who blamed McKay for his own murder and said memorializing him would "debase the currency of police heroism in this state," how is this guy a state representative?

That's okay. The truth is going to come out in the report to the U.S. House as soon as they return to session in September.

Hint: The story also claims that there were nine (9) complaints about Bruce McKay. But that's not true. There were many more than that, some from his own Fire Department as the KingCast v. Ayotte/Franconia litigation revealed.

Full post as published by Chris King's 1st Amendment Page on July 10, 2008 (boomark / email).