Seth Dunlap is the host of the weeknight sports show “The Last Lap With Seth Dunlap” on WWL Radio in New Orleans. He’s also gay.
Earlier this month, he was called a “f*g” by the station’s official Twitter page after he wrote an open letter to New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees about his partnership with the antigay hate group Focus on the Family.
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Now, according to a police report, the station claims Dunlap tweeted the slur himself by accessing the station’s official Twitter account through his personal cellphone. Not only that, but he allegedly threatened to go “scorched earth” if they didn’t pay him $1.85 million in damages.
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NOLA.com reports:
The police report, which summarizes allegations leveled by WWL’s Senior Vice President Kevin Cassidy and attorneys for the station’s corporate parent, Entercom, suggested law enforcement was still working to corroborate the station’s allegations. For now, police have classified the case as a possible extortion, which Louisiana law defines, in part, as “the communication of threats to another with the intention (to) obtain anything of value.”
The station says a forensic expert determined the tweet was sent “from an Internet protocol address associated with Dunlap’s cell” and that CCTV footage taken inside the building showed Dunlap was “in his office with the door closed at the time the tweet was sent.”
But his attorney, Megan Kiefer, says Entercom is “illegally (using) the threat of criminal prosecution” to bully Dunlap into agreeing to a lower settlement.
She also says Dunlap didn’t have access to WWL Radio’s Twitter profile and accuses Entercom of trying to “create a narrative to avoid its own culpability by implicating any innocent employee, including Seth.”
Furthermore, Kiefer notes, a polygraph test taken by Dunlap earlier this week showed no indication of lying when he was asked if he had any involvement whatsoever with the tweet.
Clearly, there’s more to this story that will surely come out as the police continue their investigation.
If the accusations against Dunlap prove to be true, he could face up to 15 years in prison.
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rand503
He should hire his own forensic investigator to find out where the tweet came from, since he claims it wasn’t his. These things are easily traceable, I’m told, and he would be an idiot if he did it.
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DarkZephyr
If he has the funds (I don’t know how much such an endeavor would cost) then he absolutely should if he is innocent. And if he IS innocent, he should sue them for libel and defamation of character.
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GentlemanCaller
…because this worked out so well for Jussie Smollett.
truthseeker
Another fake hate crime for the books. Just like Edawn Louis Coughman, former NFL player, who vandalized his own Georgia bakery with “MAGA”, swastikas, and the n-word to raise money for himself.
Kangol2
Or right winger Jacob Wohl’s attempted smears of Pete Buttigieg and Robert Mueller. So many like that over the years.
truthseeker
@Kangol2
Those aren’t hate crimes. The topic of this post is about fake hate crimes
If this was about fake #MeToo allegations, which has been weaponized, then you may have a point.
Cam
Notice how the right wing toll accounts immediately believe the station, even though he apparently already passed a polygraph test?
They are only here to always side against any LGBT person.
Kangol2
@truthseeker, you mean fake right-wing hate crimes like Francisco Nava’s claim of being attacked, that got the right-wing all workedup? Or Angela Wilburn claiming “brown men” attacked her? Or Ashley Todd, who claimed someone carved a “B” into her forehead?
truthseeker
@Kangol2
If you want to go back over 11 years ago, those would qualify. LOL you act like its a one sided issue. Your partisanship and bias is showing
Kangol2
@Truthseeker, you’re the partisan. In fact, you really only ever comment on here to spew right-wing memes or propaganda. Look in the mirror, and leave the projection for the stage.
ricdardc1
Damn you beat me to It. I thought the same thing. JUSSIE is Guilty as SIN. I don’t care what the guy or People defending him say, He’s is a SLOPPY OLE STANK MESS.
dhmonarch89
I thought something might be up when he took a leave of absence….
niles
Do gay people not realize how technology works? So sick and tired of these idiots doing damage to so many people by their selfish antics.
DarkZephyr
Agreed, I’m also sick and tired of the selfish a**holes who keep doing this. Why do they keep thinking they will get away with it? They keep getting caught, all the way back to that lesbian waitress who decided to make up a story about being called a “fag” after she saw coverage of a genuine incident involving a gay waiter. So if this guy really did do this then he is disgusting and I hope he does get put away for 15 years. This is very destructive. I know of many people who have taken these few examples as proof that homophobia is no longer really a thing. But truly I can count on one hand the number of them that I actually know about. But the public hates feeling guilty over things like racism and homophobia, so in their mind they have blown up these 4 or 5 incidences that stretch over a few years into dozens upon dozens of them. So yeah, it doesn’t help AT all.
Black Pegasus
I caution everyone to wait until more FACTS come to light.
I don’t think Seth is stupid enough to post a homophobic slur from his own phone and think it can’t be traced.
However, I don’t believe Entercom would make such an allegation to the police without evidence of it’s own.
I don’t know what to believe.
Brian
Believe the police. If they say that’s what happened, it’s because they have proof.
JaredMacBride
The station’s story is a lot more plausible of the two.
DarkZephyr
Brian, thus far, the police have not made a definitive statement about what happened. Its the station that is claiming to have evidence that he did it. Not the police. The station claims to have hired investigators.
“The police report, which summarizes allegations leveled by WWL’s Senior Vice President Kevin Cassidy and attorneys for the station’s corporate parent, Entercom, suggested law enforcement was still working to corroborate the station’s allegations. For now, police have classified the case as a possible extortion, which Louisiana law defines, in part, as “the communication of threats to another with the intention (to) obtain anything of value.””
DuMaurier
Well, we’ll see what the facts show, and I’m willing to wait for that. What’s sad is that there have been enough incidents over the years to make it believable it’s a fake.
Bob LaBlah
I knew when this story first got reported on something was wrong. You can’t be a professional sports announcer without having played some type of team sport yourself and being as young as he is its just too hard to believe derogatory locker room names can hurt a man who is suppose to be able to take anything thrown at him. He demanded time off and then wanted $1.85 million for being called the F word? I am not going to thank him for messing it up for the next out person who is going to face an interviewer with this incident fresh in their mind. It only takes one to screw it up for everyone who comes after them looking for a similar position. You made a big mistake of telling Louisiana you are gay and then turned around and pulled a stunt like this and I hope they make you regret it dearly down in Angola prison or should I say Brubakerville (the Robert Redford prison movie Brubaker was about that notorious prison and how it once was).
Rex Huskey
“i knew when this story first got reported…..” well maybe you should put on a turban and set up shop on the boardwalk telling fortunes. queens like you are like old women gossiping over the back yard fence
Bob LaBlah
@Rex…..”queens like you are like old women gossiping over the back yard fence”
And queens like me are generally right in our presumptions when something just doesn’t sound right. Go on, tell us what scheme you hatched that you just knew was going to work and it ended up blowing up in your face.
Aires the Ram
I think there’s more to this story than what meets the eye at this point. But, one side is right, and one side is wrong, time will tell which is which.
Rex Huskey
if true, he is one nasty queen