Posted on 08/29/2016 7:41:17 AM PDT by Boomer
Full Title: Pictures Have Surfaced Of The Real Damage Caused By Ryan Lochte. Photos have finally been released of the alleged damage caused by American hero Ryan Lochte and his teammates.
ESPN reporter Darren Rovell tweeted out a picture of the sign torn off the outside of the gas station in Rio. Rovell also clarified that the sign was given to the gas station for free.
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The 2002 winter games in Salt Lake City, organized by Mitt Romney, also netted a $40 million surplus.
Didn't know about that.
The Socialists could learn some things from we Capitalists.
We know they put a gun in his face and we know they demanded money. Perhaps they did demand wallets and watches, or perhaps the athletes, not speaking Portuguese, did not actually understand what was being demanded and assumed the guys with guns wanted watches and wallets.
Responsibility begins with the individual. And he wasn’t acting responsible that night.
Why do you keep trying to make this topic about Lochte, and not about how many Americans are agreeing with the Corrupt Rio Police Department and the Lying News Media?
The problem *I* am complaining about is the rush to judgement by Freepers who didn't wait for the facts to come out before condemning a man.
Now that the facts have come out, we see that the Rio police department can be proven to have lied, yet nothing other than the word of the Rio Police department establishes that Lochte lied about anything.
Since the veracity of the Rio Police department has been impeached, we have no reason to accept anything they say, especially because they have a clear motive to cover for the actions of their men.
You regard an appeal to accurate and provable truth tantamount to making excuses for a man?
I am just pointing out, we actually know nothing of factual information and busting up a poster and paying $400 seems like robbery to Lochte, well, he should have thought of that before he did it. But then again, he was too drunk to think strait.
Let me reiterate something of which I already expected an adult and responsible man to be aware. Once you have proven that someone has lied about a significant and relevant point, you can no longer trust any further thing they have said on the matter.
It has been established that the Rio police lied. These claims you are now making, came from the Rio police. We have no idea if any of them are true.
We do not know if they were stopped by four Rio police officers guarding a gas station in the middle of the night (do you not get how silly it sounds that they would have four armed police officers guarding a gas station in the middle of the night?) because Lochte had damaged the poster or not.
*THEY* say so, and they have been proven to lie.
We do not know if the owner received any money at all. For all we know the $400.00 was split among the 4 off duty Rio police officers who were guarding a gas station in the middle of the night.
That $400.00 number is kinda odd isn't it? 4 Rio police officers. $400.00 dollars. Kinda divides out evenly, doesn't it?
But you still keep wanting to make this about Lochte (what did the other guys do? Did they vandalize posters too?) Instead of the fact that so many of you rushed to judgement to unfairly condemn what appears to be a man accused of a crime he didn't do.
That, and a willingness to gloat about the misfortune of another man of which some of you are apparently envious.
Again, I expected Freepers to be better people than that.
So you speak for all freepers now?
Good to know that
You are now the rev. Al Sharpton of Freepers
Lochte is a liar, he proved that on his own, and cost him endorsements, which cost him money and that is how it should work. End of story, it is over with
All of that over a $4 or $400 poster
And I really don’t care how corrupt Brazil is, I don’t care if the security guards split the money or whatever. You mind your Ps and Qs in a foreign country, Lochte and his group failed to do that, this could have been a lot worse for them. When visiting a foreign country, best policy is to never ever draw attention of police or authorities to yourself for any reason, this is common sense
This is over with, Lochte is a liar and Brazil police force is still corrupt. Lochte wanted to ruin is career and endorsements over a drunken night and a busted poster, that is his problem, not mine. I will not allow myself to get drunk or rip down or vandalize property that is not mine.
Its called character, something Lochte obviously doesn’t have
Did you not see the video? He was in the Cab when the Rio police officers ran up and banged on the windows and demanded he get out.
He was in a taxi cab, and he was forced to get out of it by Rio police who then pointed a gun at him.
He did lie about his watch and wallet being stolen, when 30 minutes after the so called robbery he went through a security check point where everyone had their wallets and watches.
Okay, I haven't seen this before. Do you have a link which says he claimed that his watch was stolen? What I heard on the news is that he just claimed to have been robbed, and it was the Rio police who pointed out that he still had his watch on the video when they came into the hotel.
This is what I found that he said:
"And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, 'Get down,' and I put my hands up, I was like 'whatever.' He took our money, he took my wallet — he left my cell phone, he left my credentials."
The Rio police interpreted the fact that he still had his watch as "proof" that he wasn't robbed.
No, that's not proof that a robbery didn't happen.
Because it is about Lochte
If Lochte wasn’t such a drunken idiot with zero character this would not be a problem. Many athletes went to Rio and won gold, silver, bronze medals, who deserve media attention, not this fool that decides to vandalize a gas station. If they can’t understand what they were saying, how do we know what was going on? You are beyond stupid right now. A language gap and “lost in translation” is a big deal here. Who knows maybe Lochte got in that guys face and he pulled his gun, we don’t know. Just like we don’t know if watches and wallets were demanded, if it is in Portuguese and none of them speak the language how do we know they demanded them in the first place?
You debated yourself and lost in that sentence, please don’t come on here telling us what the truth is when you yourself don’t even know.
Have a good day
Was a gun shoved into the car? Yes.
Did the Rio Extortionists take money from the four swimmers? Yes.
Did the swimmers vandalize a bathroom? No.
Did the Brazilian Government confiscate passports? Yes.
Did Lochte lie about being pulled out of the car and forced to the ground. Yes.
What is your problem? Heck if I know.
Agree with you. Rio crooked cops lied and yes the athletes were held up - twice in fact. First at the station at gunpoint and second while in custody with threat of prison, loss of freedom. Nice shake down by Rio cops...$11K. ;)
No, apparently I am only speaking on behalf of the ones with some integrity. Before this incident, I didn't know there were any other kind.
Lochte is a liar, he proved that on his own, and cost him endorsements, which cost him money and that is how it should work. End of story, it is over with
Yet you haven't proven a single thing he's said to be a lie, other than his retraction, and that was under duress.
You will be pleased to know that Brazil, paragon of virtue that, has decided to charge him with filing a false robbery report, and compelling him to come back to Brazil to face charges which carry an 18 month prison term.
I'm sure you will be pleased to see him get what he deserves.
Again, I don’t hold drunk and stupid people as oracles of truth here
He is a liar and has been proven, when you have to twist his words into something and have to add meaning to what he said to prove your point, you already lost the argument
Lochte lied, however unlike Clinton, no one died
Not for me it isn't. It's about Americans who accept lies about other Americans and who gloat when their countrymen are railroaded by a corrupt third world banana Republic.
You debated yourself and lost in that sentence, please don’t come on here telling us what the truth is when you yourself don’t even know.
You do not need to speak to me of truth. You do not seem to have a grasp of the concept. You are so busy at pointing out the mote in Lochte's eye, that you are completely oblivious to the beam you have projecting from your own.
Have a good day
You can refrain from responding to me any time you like. It will not stop me from stating what I perceive to be the truth.
He certainly could be innocent, but “American hero” is really a stretch.
What do you mean yes? The Video clearly showed that he was ordered out of the car and threatened with a gun. What part is a lie?
What is your problem? Heck if I know.
Probably a stubborn refusal to go along with the crowd when the evidence leads a different direction.
It is an affliction I have had for a very long time.
Again, you said the “robbers” were speaking Portuguese and were demanding watches and wallets, so how would we know what they demanded if none of them speak Portuguese?
That does not make any sense, and that is what you said was the “truth”
Good luck with that
And American media simply repeated the talking points given them by the Rio police. American media did not make any effort to question the official narrative.
Thankfully those two USA Today reporters checked the claims of the Rio police department and demonstrated that the Rio police were lying.
Thank you for posting that update. I have been trying to argue that a Brazilian cop, working the Olympics, making one wrong turn (in an unfamiliar area), and dying in a hail of bullets is a bigger story than a cheap poster—reputedly already damaged—getting defaced.
To no avail. The death of the Brazilian cop makes Brazil look bad—can’t have that. The cheap poster incident makes Lochte look bad—so we’ll spend ALL our time on that.
I completely lost interest in the Olympics when they began allowing professionals to compete.
That said, I think they can be a good thing. I would say build them at one site, and use the same ones each year.
This is insanity, countries in debt with no money pouring it borrowed money into these things. It is obscene.
You do not have to when the provable facts speak more loudly and clearly than does any testimony.
The Rio police department made up the bathroom vandalism. This was not an accident. This was not a misstatement. This was not a "fuzzy" detail. This was a critical point to their claim, and we now find it was fabricated.
We do not know for sure that Lochte was deliberately lying about anything, but we *DO* now know for sure that the Rio police department was deliberately lying about their claim of "vandalism."
They've been caught in a provable lie. Now everything which is based on what they have said cannot be accepted as true.
Since the only testimony against Lochte comes from an impeached liar, there is now no believable evidence against him. (other than that video of the poster.)
Even the Rio police couldn't justify that as sufficient to warrant pointing guns at him and robbing him of $400.00 (they say $50.00, which I now perceive is another lie) so they had to make up the vandalizing the bathroom claim.
You have been gulled.
What I said was that the swimmers, unable to understand Portuguese, may have assumed they wanted the watches. Lochte did say they took his wallet. So far as I know, no one has proven that they didn't.
That shooting didn't get much coverage either since nobody was hit.
-PJ
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