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Who called 911?

DMUK: Martha’s Vineyard police left the reason for the 911 call reporting Obama private chef Tafari Campbell’s drowning blank in official logs from the night of the accident, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Tafari, 45, fell into the water on Sunday night while paddle boarding on Great Edgartown Pond. He was not on the water alone, but police refuse to name the person he was with. 

At 7.46pm, a 911 call was made to report that he had fallen in and could not make it back to the surface. 

That call is noted in Edgartown Police Department’s logs, but the reason behind it is left noticeably blank. The reason for every other call for that night is given. 

The origin of the call is also listed as Wilson’s Landing – a paddle board launch site, some two miles from the Obamas’ house on Turkeyland Cove, where Massachusetts State Police say the first call came from.  MORE

25 Comments on Who called 911?

  1. …the 911 recording is usually public record. Actual NEWS agencies should be able to get THAT

    Think they WILL?

    “In states including Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, and Massachusetts, there are no statutes that specifically address 911 calls. Because of that, you may file public records request at your state’s 911 department or check state laws.”

    https://recordinglaw.com/are-911-calls-public-records/#:~:text=Yes%2C%20911%20calls%20are%20public,may%20need%20a%20court%20order.

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  2. Different Tim AT 9:49 AM
    “911 always asks for caller info and if not given still has the number called from and the location.”

    …true, but when the person calling is calling as a result of criminal activity, they tend to be not completely forthcoming, for some reason..

    That’s why I always get a kick out of people who want to match the response to what the 911 caller SAYS, and send useless things like unarmed “mediators” to what turns out to be an atttempted -or in progress- murder. Some categories in particular, like child and spouse abusers, (and, of course, murderers), REALLY have a way of “understating” the nature AND severety of the problem, or the need for an accompanying police response.

    I would believe a bridge salesman before I’d take a 911 call at face value, just sayin’…

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  3. I read many years ago that the location that comes up on 911’s display is the address of the account holder, not the address of the phone. I was the chief engineer at a radio station when I read that. It was something I had to be aware of because if I had called from the transmitter site, the address shown would have been the station offices — not where I was. That was over 40 years ago, though, so maybe that has changed.

    With most people having cell phones any location that comes up is probably meaningless unless they can now instantaneously ping the cell tower — but that would only give the general location.

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  4. lol General Malaise…

    “If if if if if I, uhhh…knew about this, ummm… guy who who who, say, uhh, maybe drowned, aaaaand, umm, some other folks possibly might say they saw it, y’know, happen, is is is, uhh calling 911 cool, or or or maybe those, ummm, other folks should call?”

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  5. RadioMattM AT 11:43 AM

    “With most people having cell phones any location that comes up is probably meaningless unless they can now instantaneously ping the cell tower — but that would only give the general location.”

    …They actually haven’t fixed this. I live in a bend of the Ohio River on the Ohio side, but my cell is picked up by a Kentucky tower and goes to a Kentucky 911 dispatch. This evidently can not be corrected, so if I make any 911 calls from this area I HAVE to preface the conversation by immediately asking them to switch the call to MY county, which they cam easily do, but they need to be told. By the same token I have to tell MY County dispatch my address because the routing balls it up.

    Supposedly that’s not an issue with a landline, but I haven’t had one of those in years. Makes a 911 hangup or otherwise silent call kind of problematic tho, so if anyone in my family can’t give them routing info, I guess we’re just screwed…

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  6. Google maps or Apple whatever-its-called (I don’t have money for Apple…) shows that the phone knows exactly where it is – at least on my relatively new phone. Probably GPS data.

    It’s really odd that 911 dispatch cannot access this information. Yes, it would most likely have to use the internet to gather it, and have phone carriers allow for the access.

    But that’s government for you. Kind of shows their priorities.

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  7. A 911 call is just a telephone call, just like a cell call is just a telephone call. A cell call is only radio until it hits the tower, and then it is just another landline call through copper, fiber, and an ESS.

    There is no on-hook location data in any kind of call, just a telephone number.

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