Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. As I am reading this I can only laugh. We were branded the name “sammy”, we did not give ourselves that title. Initially the police said we were part of AEPHI – a local sorority…there was graffiti from passed fraternities and sororities on the walls dating back 15 years (sammy being one of them) and that is the one they picked. The police have since changed their story multiple times. When they came with a warrant, there was no hose, no paddles, no water, no puddles, only shambles of what was left of the house. There was no hazing. There is no fraternity. Police do not have 1 shred of evidence to support any of their claims, yet we are portrayed as monsters in the news. We threw one too many parties and police shut us down, plain and simple. They did it in a disgusting and terrible way, they lied, they ruined lives, but they succeeded in their quest. A complete and absolute lie from start to finish has branded us as terrible people, but whether truth nor fiction…once it’s in the news the truth doesn’t really matter anymore does it. You claim to be educated, you claim to be proud graduates of SUNY… Then ask yourself how does this make sense? how does an entire flooded basement become completely dry over night? How come nobody was wet? How do these kids that were paddled have no bruising? How can people scream mercy if their faces were in water? If cops heard people screaming mercy why didn’t the react sooner? How is a first semester freshman (one of the kids arrested) already in a fraternity and seen by police hazing? How come when the cops brought a warrant to the house they found no evidence of hazing or a fraternity? This entire case is a bureaucratic joke where once again police demonstrated a gross abuse of power and got away with it. With no proof to support their claims they used the media’s insatiable appetite for an entertaining headline to their advantage and published lies that will undoubtedly force the school to take action in an attempt to protect it’s rapidly deteriorating reputation.
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