Search goes on for teen presumed drowned
Boy pulled under off Indiana beach
Two days after 13-year-old Raphael Palomar was pulled under the water of Lake Michigan while swimming with his family off an Indiana beach, authorities Monday continued their somber search for the Chicago teen’s body.
Officials from several agencies continued to periodically search the lake and shore near Porter Beach, adjacent to Indiana Dunes State Park, though Indiana Department of Natural Resources Lt. Jerry Shepherd said that the teen is presumed to have drowned.
“All it is, is waiting to see when the body comes up and trying to be there when it does,” Shepherd said.
Despite threatening gray skies and the weekend’s grim accident, dozens of beachgoers still flocked to the shoreline Monday. The only unusual sight was a group of binocular-bearing volunteers from the National Weather Service Skywarn program, who sat at a picnic table, scanningthe water for any sign of the teen.
Robert Stormer, one of the volunteers, said that the drowning of a second Chicago teen along the Indiana lakeshore in the last month underlines the importance of following beach advisories.
“When the beaches are closed and the signs of dangerous riptides are posted, don’t go in the water,” Stormer said.
Raphael was swimming with family members when he was pulled underwater about 1:20 p.m. Saturday. Porter Beach has no lifeguards, and a warning about rip currents had caused officials to close Indiana Dunes Beach when Palomar disappeared.
What a stroke of genius: "When the beaches are closed and the signs of dangerous riptides are posted, don't go in the water". Well...at least Cafasso received some kind of recognition here for the scene he created when he took over and began barking orders into a cell phone that he didn't dial into, albeit an idiotic quote from a bloviating self-important buffoon.
Journalists are always enthralled with him; whatever identity he gives them; they are anxious to run with whatever he gives them.
Mariah Blake knew him as undercover CIA and used him as a source in her "Tin Soldier" article for Columbia Journalism Review..
How can they not fact-check? Well, because journalists no longer know how to BE JOURNALISTS that even remotely bother about facts. THAT is the level of reporting people have come to expect from journalists today. So...it should be no surprise that they rely on sources such as Kathryn Cramer and JJoe Cafasso (formerly Lt. Col. Gerry Blackwood and numerous others including his latest- Robert Stormer-) for their articles.
joe cafasso
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