When the NBA player Thabo Sefolosha was arrested and beaten and injured by officers of the New York City Police Department, it got little media coverage. News editors apparently assumed it was just another NBA police blotter story. Not so. Sefolosha was offered a sweet plea bargain. He turned it down, and proved his innocence at trial, and now is poised to sue the NYPD and eight police officers.
Reporter Terrance Ross, who covered the case for the Guardian.com, told KSFR's Dave Marash on HERE & THERE, almost everything Sefolosha did after his arrest seemed counter-intuitive.
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