Durham police offer David Addison has been promoted to sergeant.
This is the same David Addison who is listed in the lacrosse players’ civil lawsuit.
This is the same David Addison who issued a CrimeStoppers poster shortly after the party that claimed, among other things, that a “horrific crime” occurred in which “the victim was sodomized, raped, assaulted and robbed.”
This is the same David Addison who told the N&O that players were refusing to cooperate, who told the H-S that there was “really, really strong physical evidence”, and who told ABC that players at the party “knew what transpired.” We know now that these are all false claims. For a full run-down, see KC Johnson’s blog.
Please tell me it’s only in Durham where an officer at the center of a department’s (and a city’s and a university’s) national embarrassment can do all this and be rewarded.
