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WASHINGTON, Jan 28 — The Washington Post came under fire yesterday for its decision to suspend a reporter a day after she tweeted about the rape case against Kobe Bryant, only hours after the former basketball star and his daughter died with seven others in a helicopter crash. On Sunday afternoon...

Bryant was accused of and charged with sexual assault in 2003, but the charge was dropped after the accuser refused to testify. — AFP piccame under fire yesterday for its decision to suspend a reporter a day after she tweeted about the rape case against Kobe Bryant, only hours after the former basketball star and his daughter died with seven others in a helicopter crash.Post’sstory titled, “Kobe Bryant’s Disturbing Rape Case: The DNA Evidence, the Accuser’s Story, and the Half-Confession.

Shortly afterward, she tweeted that she had received “abuse and death threats” from “10,000 people, literally.” She added that “any public figure is worth remembering in their totality.”executive editor Martin Baron emailed Sonmez shortly after her tweets and said, in part, “A real lack of judgment to tweet this. Please stop. You’re hurting this institution by doing this.

 

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