Color me gobsmacked.
Jim Hopson's press conference told us nothing, which was understandable, because (a) he's not privy to the police investigation, (b) anyone facing charges is innocent until proven guilty, (c) nobody is really going to know anything until the trial starts, (d) the alleged incident involved a minor, so it's more than likely that the judge will impose a media blackout, and (e) there's a one-in-a-10-million chance that the accuser is from the Rachel Marsden School of Attracting Attention To Yourself.
The first media stories said the RPS investigation began last August or September, but charges weren't laid until today (3 February) which means ... what? The sex crimes division is understaffed? The investigation dragged on? The investigating officers wanted to make sure their case against Tillman was air-tight?
There'll be a lot of ink spilled between now and the trial date, but little of it will comment on the two groups most affected by this -- the claimant (assuming, once again, that she's not making this up, and given whatever claim she lodged with the RPS has withstood the five-to-six month investigation) and the family of Eric Tillman (he's married, and, I think, the father of two children). Instead, Roughrider fans and the Leader-Post will be more worried about what this does to the team, as if the whole club was involved in these escapades.
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- Stephen Whitworth
- The editor of prairie dog, a news and entertainment magazine published every two weeks in Regina, Saskatchewan. Really.
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'Instead, Roughrider fans and the Leader-Post will be more worried about what this does to the team'
You say that like its wrong or something, Stephen.
Really, let the system do it's work. In teh meantime, how does this affect the day-to-day operations? How does this effect signing free agents? This has the potential to kill the Rideres season before it even starts, and that's the part of this that has the most impact on me. If that's what the L-P are 'more worried' about, good on them. They know what the people want, and I'll be reading. if you want to ignore the Riders and report of Tillman and the alleged victim, good for you, I'll find the time to read that too, but it's really got a lot less to do with me, doesn't it? I don't buy season tickets to the Tillman show, I buy them for the Roughriders.
I'm going to say that first post violates the "spirit of enlightened discourse and/or entertaining squawking".
Some rules on posting on this thread:
1.) No speculation on this case, please. No assumptions of guilt or innocence.
2.) No tasteless comments about sexual assault.
3.) No gossip, no libel, in short, no bullshit.
How's that sound?
As you were.
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