“They offered me a deal: They wanted me to plead guilty to both counts and resign,” Troyer told Dori.
not guilty of two misdemeanors involving false reporting, Troyer told KIRO Newsradio that he relied on the nearly two-week trial to “show what the truth is.”Dori Monson
While waiting for the trial, Troyer said his family “endured feeling like hostages in our own house for five or six months” while “rioters and picketers” camped outside their home. Threatening letters from Gov. Inslee’s office and a legal team from Ferguson “turned my life upside down,” he added. “I never walked back or recounted anything,” Troyer said. That, he claimed, was created by the first story on the case, published in
Blasting back at some in local news media, Inslee, and Ferguson, Troyer told Dori that he called in defense attorney Anne Bremner when the state proposed what he called a “deal breaker.”“They wanted you to admit to some level of racism if you pleaded guilty?” Dori asked of state claims against Troyer.
Instead, Troyer claimed the “death threats” claim was “created by The Seattle Times” in their initial reporting. He told Dori he has “no animosity against the Tacoma Police Department” but believes that it was “media in the state that turned this into an incident.”
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