EXPLOSIVE NEW VIDEO: Connects Columbia police to notorious lynch mob

Youtube post featuring well-regarded defense attorney raises troubling questions all around

COLUMBIA, 12/8/11  (Beat Byte) --  On its way to declaring the Boone County Sheriff's Department (BCSD) "more professional" than the Columbia Police Department (CPD), a new Youtube video featuring Columbia criminal defense attorney Jennifer Bukowskyconnects the police to a notorious Columbia lynch mob, but also raises questions about the video's producer, who has had legal problems in both civil and criminal courts.

 

The video represents a nationwide if not international phenomenon that has come to Columbia in just the past few years:  the steady movement of investigative reporting -- in fits and starts -- away from professional newsrooms and into the hands of untrained journalists, many of them young.

 

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