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The story alone is plenty powerful: a high-ranking Fort Myers,
Florida, police officer was accused of engaging in a sex act with a woman at a
massage parlor during an undercover prostitution sting.
But the Fort
Myers News-Press had more. It had the video.
What to do with that video became an intense newsroom discussion
and, ultimately, the most powerful part of the News-Press’ presentation.
First, the background. This alleged incident took place in March
of 2013. A complaint against Capt. Jay Rodriguez (left) claimed that
Rodriguez was working undercover at the massage parlor. It goes on to say that
Rodriguez didn’t know how to work a hidden camera and when he thought he had
turned it off, he had not. The video later was meant to be deleted, but instead
was uploaded. It’s appears from the audio that Rodriguez receives a sex act
from a worker in the massage parlor.
Somehow, the video was obtained by O’Neil Kerr, a former police
officer who once worked for Rodriguez. Kerr had a contentious relationship with
Rodriguez, according to the paper. After filing a complaint late last year
against Rodriguez for the massage parlor incident and giving the city a copy of
the video on Feb. 8, Kerr was frustrated by the lack of action. So he gave a
copy of the video to the News-Press earlier this week.
“We had a lot of discussion about what we should do with the
video,’’ said Melanie Payne, one of the reporters on the story. “There was no
question about what the video revealed, but we had to figure out how to handle
it.”
Leo Kim, director of visuals for the News-Press, said that once
it was established that it was Rodriguez in the video, two questions had to be
answered before putting the video on the paper’s website.
One: Was the video real? Kim said he went through the video
frame by frame at various points to look for any irregularities such as changes
in the time stamp or odd edits or anything that made it look like the video had
been doctored or staged.
Two: How much could they show to accurately portray what had
occurred, but not so much as to offend its audience?
There was one more thing. The News-Press believed the woman in
the video likely was part of a human-trafficking situation.
“The last thing we wanted was to victimize her one more more
time,’’ Kim said.
So Kim went through several edits, making sure you could never
see her face or anything that felt gratuitous. He took a 17-minute video and
edited it down to 1 minute, 17 seconds. It was enough to show Rodriguez going
to the massage parlor, negotiating a price and then, later, putting his pants
back on.
“We needed to establish that, yes, this was the guy,’’ said
Payne, who did see the whole video and described to me what she saw and heard.
“But we wanted to do it the right way.’’
Read
the story to get more details, including possible corruption inside the
Fort Myers police department. The News-Press should be commended for how it
handled the video — from vetting it to editing it and, ultimately, publishing
it. As I read the story, I understood all the details of the case. But seeing
the video put me inside the massage parlor and, quite frankly, gave me a
nauseous feeling. It showed just how wrong it all was in a way mere words could
not.
The News-Press deserves credit for a job done well, respectfully
and responsibly.
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