What's UP with HUPD? A nice piece in the Crimson today; the paper reports that the police report filed for the arrest of four student protesters contains some serious misstatements.

According to the police report, obtained by The Crimson from the Cambridge District Courthouse yesterday, “All of the individuals were yelling ‘the FBI are murderers’ and ‘the FBI equals terrorism.’ They were all yelling other slogans as well but kept repeating the two aforementioned phrases the most.”

However, video footage from the event—available online on the IOP’s Web site—shows that neither of these phrases was ever uttered by the protesters.

That's a pretty serious discrepancy. The Harvard University Police Department declined to comment, but really, they have some explaining to do.

The Crimson also inserts this graf near the bottom of its story:

Gould-Wartofsky and Provost have served as members of the Crimson staff. Provost wrote her last news article in May 2004 and Gould-Wartofsky is a former editorial columnist.

That explanation of their relationship with the paper is much more specific than "Crimson editors," and clearly shows that the two aren't currently connected with the paper. Nicely done.

Now maybe it's time to review that "once a Crimson editor, always a Crimson editor" policy.  ¶ 7:53 AM