Your Aug. 8 article about Mexico police officer Michael J. Richard just confirms to me that when you do a story, you get half the facts and proceed to damage yet another victim in the media.

You take all of an hour to go through a person’s personal history and, with the murder of your pen, you put together a story with your version of the facts and convict a person before he has a chance to defend himself/herself in a court of law.

Did you happen to read about the time he was run over by a suspect in a vehicle which he will suffer with for the rest of his life? Or the time he had to go to a domestic call and was shot by one of the suspects in that case? Or the time he carried a child from a burning building and had nightmares for months because the child didn’t live?

Probably this information didn’t serve you in your pursuit to paint the picture you had in mind.

I am so sick of the callous remarks which damage people in the paper before they have a chance to tell their side of the story. You persecute, try and convict a person in the media and then expect they will get a fair trial. (Or do you?)

Those of us who know Mike know what kind of person he is and the rest of you don’t matter.

Bev Gallant, Dixfield