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Fox 13 Seattle comes to the defense of its ex-news anchor


Jamie Tompkins, former lead anchorwoman at KCPQ caught up in the police sex scandal with former chief Adrian Diaz, puts her side of the story out there, courtesy her old station.  The best offense is a good defense as they say in football, right?   Reportedly the station and Tompkins have been talking.




No matter what, the entire mess has unfolded publically and there is a lot of collateral damage on all sides.   When you have no police experience and you are promoted by the chief to CHIEF OF STAFF it is going to launch calls of favoritism and more.    Best plan would have been not to accept a job that was apparently created for her, and for which she had no law enforecment of management cred.   Where is Fox 13's reporting on that aspect of the issue???   Hmmmmm   Go to this link for the story:

https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/emails-tompkins-affair-rumors-diaz?taid=6766e61ae4667d0001c332b1&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

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