FROM FLOYD ROSE TO TROY NEFF:

I was shocked to hear one of your guest say that I accused the police of beating a young man in the park in the eighties.  For the record I never accused the police of beating anybody. Never. I received a call from a middle aged man who told me that he saw the police beating the young man. Before I would listen to him I insisted that he take a polygraph test for me.  He did, and he passed it.  I also understood that he had taken one for the police and passed it. Even so I refused to say that the police had beaten the young man.  My exact words were, “We don’t know who did it. I don’t care whether the perpetrator was wearing blue jeans or a blue uniform, we want him caught.” As it turned out the guilty party was not wearing a blue uniform.
 
The police thought that the police did it. They arrested two of their fellow officers, and were later sued by them, and rightly so. We had asked the FBI to investigate and they called me to tell me that they had caught the real perpetrators, and one of them was in the Lucas County Jail.  I visited him and he acknowledged to me that he and another man and woman had done it. Immediately I publicly expressed relief that no police officer was involved.
 
We wondered how could this “eye witness” get it so wrong?  As It turned out, it appeared that the police was with the victim when he saw him, and he was waving his hands and shouting, “Don’t or stop, of  something to that effect. And as recall,  the police took him to the hospital, but not the same two police officers who were seen with him.
 
Asking me to apologize for something I never said is silly.  I will not do that.  Let your guest provide a tape of any statement where I said the police beat the man.  No such proof exist, and since he’s an attorney I am sure he understands the possible consequences of his words.
 
When an honest man learns the truth he will either change or cease to be honest.
 
Floyd Rose