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@retiredPhlADA Captain Krasner pitching job applicants to climb aboard his sinking ship.

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Krasner out recruiting in Atlanta as federal subpoenas fall in Philly:
https://t.co/mfmG5ly0z0

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@PhillyInquirer Homers covering for Krasner. Here's the real story:
https://t.co/ITuvbbr8CP

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Krasner won't talk about why his prosecutors blew a prior murder case against confessed cop killer Eric Lewis:
https://t.co/ITuvbbr8CP
Instead, he wants to know how Big Trial acquired an Internal Affairs report that exposed his lies:

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@ben_is_like I'm lying? Very funny.

There was no "testimony." The cop ducked a subpoena and never showed.

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@ben_is_like Hey Benny, in the video Krasner said the cop "torpedoed" his own "testimony."

We don't make anything up over here. Larry provides all the material anybody could need.

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Krasner lied about cop's "testimony."
The cop he accused of lying about an imaginary suspect named "Spice" was never a witness in the previous murder case against accused cop killer Eric Lewis:
https://t.co/SWlYkRU7U6

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Sgt. Eric Gripp, a PPD spokesperson, said he hasn't heard anything about it, but wouldn't be surprised if it happened.

Carrie Adamowski, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of PA declined comment.

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The feds contacted the Philadelphia Police Department yesterday about taking over the prosecution of Eric Lewis, accused of murdering Officer Shane Seiber.

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You can't have one set of rules for dealing with grieving mob wives and another set of rules for dealing with grieving police wives. You have to treat people the same. If you catch Tony Bevilacqua lying you treat him the same way you would Ed Rendell. That's the goal of journalism, although we often fall short.

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@gass_colleen It's coming.

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In cop killer case, Krasner has a glaring credibility problem:
https://t.co/2DlPcwaElt

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Judge Diamond denies Krasner's "frivolous" motion for the judge to recuse himself in the appeal of a convicted killer:
https://t.co/qPKfwasvRF

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@EllieRushing I saw what I saw. It wasn't in there. No reason for me to lie about that.

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Hey Philadelphia Inquirer, why did you censor the accused cop killer telling multiple cops in the emergency room, "if the cops were black, he would not have shot them?"

You quoted from the same police report I had, but left the racial angle out. Why? Then, after I printed it, you reluctantly added it to your story.

Why the censorship?

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Ellie: Here's what I know. On Monday morning, before 7 a.m., I read online the Inquirer story. It quoted from the same police report I had. But it didn't mention the racial angle.

Around that time, people started sending me the police report, and claiming that the news media was censoring the racial angle, that the defendant only shot the cops because they were white.

I wrote a story because I didn't see those quotes in the Inquirer. Had I seen those quotes, there would have been no reason for me to write a story.

And when I finally read the racial stuff in the Inquirer, you certainly buried it. It should have been the headline. Had the color scheme of the protagonists been reversed, it certainly would have been your lead.

In the future, I would suggest, instead of arguing with another reporter, that you re-channel your energy into holding your favorite "progressive prosecutor" accountable. Rather than giving him the free ride that he's become oh so accustomed to.

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@gass_colleen @PhillyInquirer @amysrosenberg I have always maintained there should be no taboos in journalism. No scared cows. That's why I got fired from the Inquirer. Because I insisted on treating the Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia like I would have treated any other politician that I caught lying.

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How the police and Krasner's DAO both failed to stop Eric Lewis before he allegedly murdered a cop:
https://t.co/ckDTFaPVdO

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@retiredPhlADA Because it was expunged.