[drjimmy]

As we can see now, the results of prejudging the situation with insufficient evidence is that the real killer would have gotten away.

If you think it was simply chance and a broken taillight that caused the cops to stop this guy's van, you're naive. And the cops in the New Jersey case were after the right suspects all along as well. They simply shut up and did their job, while jerks on the Internet and the tabloid media moaned and groaned about Muslims. It's laughable for you to criticize anyone else about "prejudging."

[cripplecreek]

"If you think it was simply chance and a broken taillight that caused the cops to stop this guy's van, you're naive. And the cops in the New Jersey case were after the right suspects all along as well."


Speculation

[thoughtomator]

Hmm... so it's okay to prejudge on a death threat, but not okay to prejudge on a death threat plus a religious edict plus a global culture of committing precisely that sort of murder plus evidence pointing to religious motive. What standard are you working on?

[hchutch]

Look at the commuter train derailment in LA. Everyone was thinking the guy who did it was an illegal immigrant - and salivating over it, in my opinion. It turned out that the disturbed individual who was responsible was an American citizen.

Nothing. No mea culpa at all.

The attorney general has been alleged to be an acitvist for La Raza - that was a claim from a syndicated columnist that has been repeated here. But it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity - and again, there's been no correction of the record by the folks who make the claim.

I guess some rushes to judgement are acceptable.