Santa Fe sheriff completes Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ shooting investigation
The San Francisco sheriff is not allowed to tell the whole truth. That’s the way of the law, and it’s also how the sheriff operates.
He told The Associated Press he is not allowed to tell the whole truth.
As a sheriff’s investigation into the shooting death of Alec Baldwin’s dog Rust shows, the law works both ways.
San Francisco Police Department investigators found evidence for what they say was the sheriff’s theory that the dog attack — which witnesses said was initiated by a deputy — was self-inflicted, not anything Baldwin did.
But the sheriff’s department says all this theory is nonsense and has withheld evidence to make its case against Baldwin. It has refused to release to The Associated Press its own investigative findings and the medical records of Baldwin, who was treated at San Francisco General hospital immediately after the dog attack but was not allowed to see a doctor.
The sheriff says he can’t release records until he gets a court order from the California public records act.
The sheriff also says Baldwin was charged with felony hit-and-run, not dog-related assault.
The sheriff says all this theory is nonsense and has withheld evidence to make its case against Baldwin.
The sheriff says all this theory is nonsense and has withheld evidence to make its case against Baldwin.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
The San Francisco sheriff’s office told The Associated Press on Thursday that it was withholding information from the public to force a dog-attack suspect’s release of medical records and records of Baldwin’s treatment at the hospital where he was treated.
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said no warrant for the records has been issued and said the police department has not asked the sheriff’s office to release those records.
Suhr has said Baldwin shot his dog before he tried to grab it and chase it around the house after it was loose outside.
Suhr told AP he had no comment directly on the sheriff’s decision to withhold documents. But he criticized the sheriff’s office for waiting so long to release information.
The sheriff’s office says it has withheld records from the public to support its view that the dog attack was self-inflicted, not Baldwin’s. The agency did not explain in its letter
