Philadelphia Inquirer editorial correction

The Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial Board, The Philadelphia Inquirer on Jul 31, 2025

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EDITORS: The Philadelphia Inquirer has published this correction to an editorial that moved via Tribune News Service in May. The headline was "Editorial: Report about security failings around the arson attack on Gov. Shapiro should be made public."

TNS customer papers that published this editorial are asked to run this correction and remove the editorial from websites.

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Editor’s Note: The editorial about the investigation regarding security lapses leading up to the arson attack at the governor’s mansion failed to include additional context about the role the consultant who was hired to look into those failings had in an earlier case as head of security for the National Football League.

The consultant, Jeffrey B. Miller, had oversight of the NFL’s examination of allegations that former Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice had physically assaulted his then-fiancée in the elevator of an Atlantic City hotel in February 2014.

The editorial failed to note that although the Associated Press reported that Miller had been sent a video of the assault, a subsequent four-month independent investigation led by former FBI director Robert Mueller found no evidence that the video was sent or, if sent, that Miller or anyone else at the NFL had received or viewed the video before it was published by the celebrity news site TMZ in September 2014.

The editorial also should have noted that while the Associated Press reported that a voicemail from an NFL office number confirmed receipt of the video and commented that it was “terrible,” the investigation conducted by Mueller’s team found no evidence that such a call occurred.

The complete report into the NFL’s handling of the Ray Rice case by the Mueller team can be found here (https://inquirer.com/rayricereport).

The Inquirer regrets these errors.