Sheriff’s office reached out to Angel Pittman in response to story but 21-year-old said she won’t speak until she obtains counsel
Pittman confirmed that the sheriff’s office did contact her and her family and that they seemed “concerned now … They said to make another report, and they’ll investigate.”
The sheriff’s office has also issued a statement that, in part, said “in further review of the deputies report, and body cam footage, Miss Hopes [Pittman’s mother] never reported that any threats had been made to her or anyone else”. Pittman’s family had reported the incident after the buses she parked on property she just bought were vandalized with slurs, and her neighbor displayed racist signs outside his home, including Ku Klux Klan paraphernalia. Pittman said those signs were not there when she visited the land before.
The statement acknowledges the vandalism and racist signs but said since the publication of the Guardian’s original reporting on 21 March 21 “we have received numerous enquiries from various media outlets stating that they have been in contact with Angel Pittman, and that she is alleging that threats were made to her and her family by the neighbor. To date, we have no record that Angel Pittman has ever contacted or spoken to anyone with our agency in reference to this incident.
When asked about the sheriff’s claims that she wasn’t the one to speak to the officers herself, Pittman said her parents did so on her behalf because
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