To the Editor : Re '' Police Fired Fatal Shot , Murder Suspect Says in Jail '' -LRB- news article , Dec. 1 -RRB- : Without a scintilla of evidence to support his fantastic lie , Allan Cameron , the man accused of killing a New York City police officer in Brooklyn last Monday , was given the front page of your Metro section as a platform to broadcast his scurrilous assertion that the police were responsible for the shooting death of one of our own .