WPR Rebuttal Exclusive: Jason Pero in WPR Ad? Also, St. Croix District Attorney Letter Exonerates Deputy Mrdjenovich

The only media outlet to do so, WPR Rebuttal presents an actual scan of the letter exonerating Ashland Deputy Brock Mrdjenovich from wrongdoing in the death of Jason Pero. WPR Rebuttal has effectively scooped Wisconsin Public Radio by acquiring this January 19, 2018 letter!

Although I had updated the January 23 post to include a scan of this letter, I decided to make a stand-alone post to facilitate search-engine traffic. Truly and cynically, #YouthShooting = #PageViews. Without further delay:

Further analysis of the investigative-case file is available, courtesy of WPR Rebuttal.

Also, I was looking back-over the sidebar ads that I've been collecting from the WPR website. One child depicted in an October 2017 WPR programming advertisement bore an eerie resemblance to Jason Pero:

The stocky boy in the Green Bay Packers sweatshirt definitely resembles Jason Pero:

Consider the facial similarities and their mutual love of sweatshirts. And even if the ages and the faces of the boys are not identical, these discrepancies could be respectively explained-away by the photo having been taken years earlier and by the stretching of the photo in post-processing.

However, through some critical thinking, I can confirm the boy in the ad is -not- Jason Pero. (Although, it might be rightfully said that the youngster is a "Jason Pero doppleganger.") Two reasons make it highly-improbable the young boy is actually Jason:

1) Whereas Jason Pero was a member of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe, the children in the WPR Central Time ad are members of the Menomonie Tribe. (Although the "First Peoples" series -does- cover several bands of Chippewa, only one sidebar ad had been commissioned for the series in 2017 -- and that ad featured the Menomonie youth within the limited 300x250 pixels "real estate.")

2) Even if Mr. Pero were to have been Photoshopped into another tribe's gathering after-the-fact, WPR would-have removed the ad from circulation if, in fact, Jason had shown-up in the advertisement. (For the purpose of "respecting" the dead; as well as trying not to needlessly "trigger" survivors who were /are close to Jason.)

This more-or-less exhausts the publicly available information about Jason Pero's final days. However, you can count-on WPR Rebuttal to deliver more scintillating content on other current events as they arise!