EYEWITNESSES 2

The Guardian's Camille Clarke falls into the same trap as Sandra Singh.
"An eyewitness claimed that Yankee was thrown from a car that was driven past on Park Street.
Others claimed that he had been tied up and beaten by workers at a nearby construction site."

We can understand if the body was thrown from a car and people called the police. But how can you complete this report without questioning the "eyewitnesses" on their response, or lack of, when the man was tied up and beaten???

And Camille you also printed a statement from Wade Mark which you have failed to substantiate.
'“We wanted to debate the crime situation today and the Speaker of the House tossed the envelope on the floor,” Mark said.'
Did you ask him to give some details of this incident? Because if it is true, then it deserves a separate story.
Please stop doing your readers a disservice by printing every accusation without demanding that they be substantiated.
Remember you don't work for a tabloid, and your editor should remind you of that daily.