The Kasota shooting story has dominated the news and this emotional story has stoked comments on both sides that pretty much overloaded our "story comment" system.
I've suspended the function for a while, so no story comments on this subject will be published. The volume and the content of the comments were problematic. Too much anger on both sides. We'll see what prevails as the details become more clear.
Disappointing the BCA can't give more details. This would "balance" the story coming out. I know it's not their job to balance the story, but it's our job to put as much of the story out there as we can, especially in a shooting case. But we can only print the facts that are told to us. We can't make them up.
In the alternative, if police can't give facts regards investigation, we cannot and will not refrain from publishing anything. Some people want us to refrain from publishing anything until all the facts are known. That's not realistic and holding off publishing news is not what newspapers do. Stay tuned.
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