The Durham city manager, Patrick Baker, and Police Chief Steve Chalmers presented their "what went wrong" report to the Durham City Council. The city council apparently wasn't big on being thought of as a bunch of fools.

Chalmers and Baker devoted much of their reports to explaining the widely criticized April 4 photo-identification procedure that led to indictments in the case.

The procedure, which did not follow department policy, was not an attempt to identify suspects but to locate witnesses, Baker and Chalmers concluded.

Riiiiiiiight. Pull the other one.