Philadelphia anchorwoman "off the air indefinitely" after slugging NYC cop

[Lobster Martini]

(LM: When you think you have seen everything, you are invariably wrong. Local news can be weird, but it is seldom this weird.)

Alycia Lane off the air indefinitely

The anchor went on vacation early, stripped from CBS3 promos and from a holiday special.

Anchorwoman Alycia Lane's future with KYW (CBS3) is uncertain after her arrest early Sunday on charges of slugging a plainclothes New York City police officer.

The station announced that Lane, 35, would begin a planned two-week, end-of-year vacation a week early, effective yesterday. Her name and image were stripped from station promos, and her work on the station's holiday special, airing tonight, was edited out.

Observers say her return to her $700,000-a-year anchor job hinges not only on her legal case - a felony charge of second-degree assault that could take months to resolve - but the court of public opinion.

CBS, the station's parent company, is deliberating how to handle the public relations fallout.

Not only is Lane accused of striking a police officer, she is alleged to have screamed obscenities at the officer and called her a "dyke."

In a statement from CBS3 - which reported yesterday on her arrest - Lane denies that she made any comment or that she struck the officer.

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(Link: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/12585231.html)

[RufusEarl]

1. $700.000 a year, now that's news.

This is an affiliate, think what the anchor for CBS , ABC, NBC get yearly, this is obscene to me.

Peace!

[Lobster Martini]

2. Hey, I'm looking at it as a job opportunity...

When Brian Williams slugs a cop, I'll go for that one too.

[glowing]

7. No wonder they're willing to bob their heads and lie into the camera.

[sasquatch]

3. Before we all jump on this woman we've got to remember that cops lie like this all the time

They like to make up charges when one of us "civilians" confront them or don't completely submit to everything they say.

[T Wolf]

4. Exactly. The initial story I read said something about Lane taking pictures

with her phone of a confrontation involving a plainclothes cop and the cop got pissed at that.

Ther cop grabbed her phone, etc.

Sounds like it could be the usual story of police acting badly and not wanting any record of the incident.

[wtmusic]

5. There was at least one witness and cuts on a cop's face

so unless the witness can back up her side of the story, it looks an awful lot like another arrogant "personality" thinking they're above the law.

[devilgrrl]

6. Maybe she should send the cops some pictures of herself in sexy lingerie to reduce the charges...

:sarcasm:

[sasquatch]

10. I read scratches and they could've been self inflicted

[bananas]

8. and so do people who make 700 grand a year

this calls for one of those Solomon decisions,
too bad he's been dead for several centuries.

[Ezlivin]

9. She should have yelled "Don't tase me, bro!"

Assume the position...

[madinmaryland]

11. Picture...

[Catherine Vincent]

12. She's got that uppity look. nt