Howard Copelan, Publisher
Howard Copelan, Publisher

Calling someone let alone a whole sheriff’s department racist is a bit over the line.

At least we thought so and we still won’t believe it until we are satisfied.

Still the case of Stuart Cole does raise a lot of questions.

Why in hell did it take so long to charge Cole in the first place.

It was a crime committed a little after 8 pm Wednesday rather gruesomely and rather publicly. The body of Lavance A. Stewart was some how pushed out of a moving vehicle right in front of the VFW building on November 8, 2012.

We presume that most of the evidence taken at the crime scene had been collected and analyzed within say two weeks.

So why wait two years?

Even Inspector Clouseau could close a case within a year.

And just what was Stuart Cole doing in those two years?

He went to work, held down a job and paid his taxes.

In short he was, by all accounts a fine upstanding citizen.

Something is fishy and we hope against hope that there is a reasonable explanation.

We hope there is one and we hope it is true.