The article clearly sources the email and describes the context in which it was read. Readers can make up their own minds about how much value to put on it. Clearly, it is not absolute proof, but it does add another perspective to the story that none of the corporate media outlets have covered -- still to this day.

You claim that indymedia has sloppy journalism, but don't dispute the accuracy of the report. I hope we agree that the email was read on WDKX's water cooler show. On the other hand, corporate new accounts have stated many facts inaccurately. For example, check out this article, where testimony of a BB gun sale gets turned into the sale of the murder weapon by R News:

rochester.indymedia.org/newswire/display/22694

People talk about "advocacy" journalism or "unprofessionalism," but my experience is that indymedia articles are much less likely to have factual errors than corporate media articles on the same topics. It seems to be clearly the case with the Tyquan Rivera story.