Quote Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
Except that......


There is no law...or even practice...that the police must investigate before the media can report on an incident. The whole thing doesn't start when the person is taken to the hospital...the whole thing starts when the person is shot!
Oops!

Any idiot with a police scanner or 'insider' (imagine that.....not having the home state of the pres wired.....) would have knows something was going on.

Hold on a second!

I said accident....

When someone gets shot you do not stop and wait for the cops. Because the VP has heart problems he is always followed by a med team.

Beacause a shotgun blast to the torso tends to bleed a little, he was taken STAT..I always wanted to use that word!!! to the ER

When the patient arrives at the ER/Trauma unit the attending physician, by law, has to call the cops.


Because I was standing next to a friend that was shot, in a hunting accident and work in a hospital - think that I remember some of those rules...
The person that shot my BIL was there in the ER and admitted to it.

The LASD came out took notes and cleared the whole thing up, no charges, no other kind of BS.


Unless the cops think that it was something else they will not bother to go out to the site where it happened...example?

Two gangbangers show up at an ER at two in the morning, one has his intestines spilling out of his gut. Chances are that it's a crime scene where he was shot. The police are usually concerned if someone gets shot and the person doesn't come forward.

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And you have to remember that the SECRET SERVICE is a Law Enforcement Group...

I only mentioned that the hospital cannot give out info.....not the PD......they are not bound by any info laws.....It's only the hospital...

Sooooooo, It the media is lazy, to lazy to check the police blotter for the weekend, it's their own fault.