This is a very weird story that is going to come to an ugly conclusion.
Drew Brees did a PSA for a hate group. He claimed he didn’t know they were a hate group and lashed out at the media about when he should have been thanking them for pointing it out to him.
Seth Dunlap who is a host at WWL-AM posted a long thoughtful Facebook message about him being gay and why what Drew did was harmful to that community.
A couple of days later, his own station Twitter page called him a “Fag”.
This is where it gets weird, this seems like something that would be easy to track. Only so many people have access to the Twitter account and one of them did it, likely on work computer or their phone, but after weeks they can’t seem to find the culprit and are lightly implying Dunlap did it himself.
“WWL has completed its investigation into the highly offensive, unauthorized tweet sent from WWL’s Twitter account on September 10, which directed a homophobic slur at Seth Dunlap,” Entercom Communications said in a release. “WWL conducted this investigation with the assistance of an external digital forensic firm and outside counsel, and expended considerable internal resources both in New Orleans and on our corporate staff.”
The company did not say what that probe revealed.
“We determined that the most appropriate next step is to involve law enforcement. At this point, the investigation is in the hands of law enforcement.”
Dunlap has hired lawyers and there seems to be a lawsuit coming, he took a lie detector test because I believe he might have been accused of sending the tweet himself. He passed the test for whatever that is worth.
In the police report though they claim he sent the tweet to himself.
WWL Radio officials believe the homophobic slur tweeted out from the station’s official account to talk show host Seth Dunlap earlier this month was sent from Dunlap’s personal cellphone, according to a New Orleans Police Department report.
The station also has accused Dunlap, who is 35 and openly gay, of threatening the station that he would go “scorched earth” over the tweet and demanding more than $1.8 million in compensation while he was also facing personal financial troubles, said the police report, which was obtained Thursday through a public records request.
The station alleged that the forensic expert discovered the tweet was sent from an Internet protocol address associated with Dunlap’s cell, said the police report, which doesn’t elaborate on that point.
According to WWL Radio, the station had been receiving “letters in the past few months regarding wage garnishment” for Dunlap’s personal debts, the report said.
“Apparently, Mr. Dunlap has a variety of unpaid credit cards and personal loans, and the companies holding the debt are going into collections for the unpaid amount,” said the police report.
It is just a wild turn of events and here is what Dunlap’s lawyer had to say.
It is indisputable that this tweet was egregious and shocking; however, it is unsurprising. In the coming weeks, we will reveal the appalling history of discrimination Seth has experienced during his eight years at Entercom as an openly gay man. Once all of the evidence comes to light, the inescapable conclusion is that Entercom has allowed an anti-gay, bigoted, and hostile work environment to flourish and that Entercom as well as its corporate lawyers were aware of instances of homophobia and discrimination and did nothing to protect Seth or its LGBTQ+employees. We will be preparing a lawsuit and complaint in the upcoming weeks that will discuss these instances in more detail.
I received anonymously an internal memo after the incident went down.
Flip the page for that memo and the tweets.