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Originally Posted by Kelhus100
This is all a giant tangent, but the point is that as of yesterday the people coming into this thread that only saw MSM reporting had very strong opinions on the incident, but no clue about what actually happened, and I had to direct them to DailyMail so they could at less get some basic facts on the case.
This isn't a one off. This seems to be the rule. I think this indicates a big problem with how our MSM operates. You are free to disagree.
I'm super confused about why you are so shot in the ass with the Daily Mail, given your intuition that the jogging angle is false. Having now looked at more stories on this incident, it seems that The Daily Mail promoted the narrative you describe as a "red herring" as least as aggressively as other outlets I have seen. For ****'s sake, the headline of the Daily Mail article was: "
Horror moment two white men shoot an unarmed black jogger dead in their neighborhood while they were 'looking for a burglar' as calls mount for pair to be charged".
I watched the video. I can't say for sure whether he was running for exercise or some other reason, but the more important point is that I have not seen any evidence that he was actually committing a crime or that it was reasonable for these guys to think he was committing a crime, other than possibly trespassing.
And even if they thought he had committed a burglary, and even if that belief was objectively reasonable, it was LOL idiotic for them to play the role of gun-toting vigilantes. I feel comfortable saying that without knowing the intricacies of Georgia law.
Last edited by Rococo; 05-08-2020 at 12:55 PM.