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Posted: 9:54 a.m. Sunday, March 11, 2012
Reporter won't sue Berkeley Police Chief
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BERKELEY, Calif. —
A newspaper reporter told KTVU Saturday that he would not sue Berkeley's chief of police after the chief sent an armed officer to the reporter’s home to demand that he rewrite an article in the middle of the night.
Chief Michael Meehan said emotions ran high during a public meeting last Thursday concerning the beating death of a 67-year-old Peter Cukor near his Berkeley Hills home in February. Throughout the meeting, Meehan was peppered with questions about his department's response to the man’s death. Afterward, he read an article on the Oakland Tribune’s website that he felt mis-represented his comments and responses to the audience’s questions.
“I see this article come out late at night, after 11:20, and I think I'm going to deal with it right now, instead of taking a deep breath like I should have,” said Meehan.
The chief sent a sergeant to reporter Doug Oakley's home at 12:45 a.m. Friday to insist he change the story.
“It was intimidating,” said Oakley in a phone interview Saturday. “I think he did overstep his bounds.”
Meehan’s actions were reported in the Oakland Tribune the next day and since then he has both apologized publicly as well as e-mailed Oakley, a letter of apology.
Oakley, a career journalist for 23 years, said Saturday that he was taking the apology at face value.
As of Sunday, the fallout from the chief's actions may not have subsided yet.
Berkeley's interim city manager Christine Daniel released a statement Saturday denouncing the chief's actions:
"There was no justification for contacting the reporter in this way and the chief understands that the more appropriate response to his concerns about inaccurate statements in the article ... should have been to wait until the following day and make contact by phone or email."
Meanwhile, Berkeley City Councilwoman Susan Wengraf said she planned to discuss the chief's behavior with the city manager Monday.
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