Was there a cover up?

 You decide. It is what it is as far as I am concerned. The bottom line, two of the papers reporters were attacked by a mob of black teenagers and the paper did absolutely nothing concerning reporting the incident or the fact that their white reporters were targeted in a racial attack. 

Denis Finley Editor

Norfolk paper fires back in black-mob attack

As Norfolk, Va., home of the world’s largest naval base, continues to be embroiled in racial controversy, the editor of the city’s newspaper is firing back at critics who claim his agency buried or covered up an attack by a mob of black teenagers against two of his white reporters two weeks ago.

“They think we buried the story. We didn’t. We didn’t bury anything,” Denis Finley, editor of the Virginian-Pilot, told WND. “People are just not stopping to think. What would be my motivation for protecting people who beat up two of my reporters? It’s completely ludicrous that I would do that.”
“I think we did the right thing. I think we’re on solid ground. I don’t think we can win here. If we had published a story, it would look like we’re playing favorites. Because I didn’t publish it, now I’m accused of a cover-up.”
As WND reported yesterday, the couple was pummeled at a stoplight the night of April 14 by dozens of black teens, and the newspaper had no mention of the incident for two weeks, despite the fact the victims, Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami, are both news reporters for the paper.
Police classified the case as a “simple assault,” as neither of the victims were seriously hurt. Both were off work for a week. Forster’s torso ached from blows to his ribs, and he retained a thumb-sized bump on his head.
Chris Amos, spokesman for Norfolk Police stressed this afternoon the case “is not being investigated as a hate crime.”