A federal judge tosses two Tuscaloosa lawmen’s libel suit claiming a Buzzfeed story on University of Alabama student Megan Rondini's death defamed them.
Bunn works at ST Bunn Construction Company, which is across the street from the Innisfree Pub, where Rondini reportedly became drunk, or was drugged, before being raped for 30 minutes in July 2015.subtitled and captioned “A College Student Accused a Powerful Man of Rape.
That article, according to the officers’ lawsuit, reported that Jones and Hastings intentionally covered up the rape of Rondini. “The article depicts both Hastings and Jones as corrupt law enforcement officers whose sub-standard and illegal investigative conduct eventually played a significant role in Ms. Rondini committing suicide,’’ the suit reads. “These allegations were contrived, baseless and false.
A second BuzzFeed article was published July 3, 2017, titled “The parents of a college student who killed herself after reporting she was raped have filed a wrongful death suit.” “This article confirmed and repeated BuzzFeed’s first article’s untrue narrative that Investigators Hastings and Jones incompetently and corruptly investigated Ms.
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