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Just like that, the siding will be fixed, just as soon as you catch me!

Is it time the SFPD comes clean on the Tuthill shooting incident?

Maybe it is time they tell us ‘what’ or ‘if’ anything happened that night.

As I have mentioned in the past, the chief of police, Doug Barthel has said that certain types of evidence wouldn’t be released because he believed ‘it wouldn’t help solve the case.’

Guess what Doug, you haven’t solved it yet, maybe it is time to release the evidence?

Let me start by saying that I think the SFPD has been very successful over this past year solving crimes. Drug busts, murders, prostitution and robberies, within a few days. Heck, they even caught a graffiti artist (and those guys are sneaky 🙂

Where I am going with this? Doesn’t anyone think it is strange that the police department has been so successful solving many of these difficult crimes but they can’t find the Tuthill mystery person who was shot at on the night of New Year’s Day?

As I have said in the past, I do believe the officer saw ‘something’. But what we don’t know is ‘what’. There was an internal investigation (The county sheriff’s office and DCI did not investigate), NO audio was released to the public from his body audio recorder, a crime scene map has not been released to the public and a reward has been offered.

Ironically, this case is a lot like the Events Center siding issue, the public has only been given ‘tidbits’ but nothing concrete. Maybe the city could keep press conference costs down, they could tell us about the Tuthill cold case the same time they tell us what is going on with the siding.

Let’s face it, the EC siding issue is an embarrassment to the administration and the Tuthill shooting incident is an embarrassment to the police department. They will go away, quietly in the night, no pun intended.

10 Thoughts on “The ‘Tuthill’ ghost and Events Center siding have a lot in common

  1. John on July 20, 2015 at 8:11 pm said:

    My sources says the parties are in negotiations to determine what percent each is at fault. Big percent will probably go to the desin firm.

  2. The Daily Spin on July 20, 2015 at 8:57 pm said:

    It was aliens or a Sasquatch. If they can’t put something together, try this. Huether will make it his idea. It’s the best way to attract tourism and keep the 7 million hotels levy for tennis trophys. Put some FM buds at the end of band squelch and lead geeks around Tuthill looking for spooks. I’d be a tour guide but I know I couldn’t be serious and die laughing.

  3. l3wis on July 21, 2015 at 8:22 am said:

    John, I will tell you who’s fault it is, the dumb ass with the city who signed off on the crap job. Mystery solved.

  4. John on July 21, 2015 at 8:57 am said:

    Your right. Someone from the city needed to mitigate the damages and say STOP! I actually thought the waves were part of the design as it was going up.

  5. teatime on July 21, 2015 at 12:00 pm said:

    John: Don’t say that, or it will become a rumor that can be spinned into the truth and the screwed up siding will become a SF urban legend. LOL

  6. There should be a way to get the audio released. I would think with the questions surrounding the incident (making it appear like there might be some type of policy violation cover up, or some altered facts about the story), Chief Barthel would want to release the audio if for no other reason to ensure the perceived integrity of his department.

  7. l3wis on July 22, 2015 at 7:52 am said:

    Did you just use the words ‘integrity’ and ‘city’ in the same sentence? BAHAHAHAHAHA!

  8. The Daily Spin on July 22, 2015 at 9:20 am said:

    Antonyms example, integrity & city. There, same sentence and only 4 words.

  9. Yeah, I feel kinda dumb now.

    Apparently they haven’t caused me to completely lose all of my optimism.

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