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Originally Posted by The Cobra
Now, if they read an article in the company newsletter that someone suggested you made a racist remark, you wouldn't be immediately fired. It would likely spur an investigation into what happened, and then a decision would be made, after listening to the evidence. The company newsletter is not, in itself, enough evidence.
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I don't know why you keep insinuating that I'm saying the organization needs to take the TSN article as irrefutably evidence.
Again, I've repeatedly said that they should go to the independent witness (who was a former cop no less) to verify the claims in the article.
You're the one taking what I believe is a rather silly position that this needs to be proven in court before anything can happen. No it doesn't. I mean they can relieve him today if they think the team sucks, they can relieve him today if he as a person sucks (and look at actual termination with cause type thing down the line).
But now we have another witness saying it was an open secret and a document filled out in 2013 saying their rumours as well. If a random joe blow knows this guy was molesting players, are we really to believe that management didn't?
So we have anywhere between two to four witnesses making the same claims, two actual victims of rape, another name who allegedly knew enough to spread the rumour to other employees. (Jeff Thomas) and now most importantly Paul Vincent verifying the claims in the original TSN article that he indeed did go to the management.
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“I feel a weight has been lifted off of me,” Vincent said in an interview on Monday with TSN. “I will stand up in court and say what happened. I know what the team did to cover this up and coming forward was the right thing to do."
Vincent alleges that after the players approached him on May 16, 2010, in San Jose, he asked Blackhawks sports psychologist James Gary to follow up with the players and management.
The following day, Vincent says he was called into a meeting with team president John McDonough, general manager Stan Bowman, vice-president of hockey operations Al MacIsaac, and Gary. Vincent said that he asked the team to report the alleged abuse to Chicago police. That request was refused, Vincent said.
Following the meeting, Vincent said he told assistant coaches John Torchetti and Mike Haviland about his request to go to police and about the team's response. Neither Torchetti nor Haviland could be reached for comment. Neither coach is still with the franchise.
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There's another two names now that the Hawks could have asked to verify the claims that management was told. But it seems like they've been trying to protect him (and their selves) since at least 2013 when they refused to talk with police.