Posted on 01/07/2019 6:27:07 AM PST by Red Badger
It was revealed Sunday that a tip provided to activist Shaun King and Harris County, Texas, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez led to the arrest of a suspect in the murder of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes. Barnes’s killer was initially described as a white male, leading to widespread allegations that she was the victim of a hate crime. But Gonzalez revealed Sunday that a black man has been arrested in the case. New questions are being raised though, after it was revealed that King and Gonzalez received the tip on Jan. 3. Both pushed the theory of a white suspect even after receiving the tip.
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez and activist Shaun King continued pushing the theory that a white man murdered Jazmine Barnes, even after both had received a tip that the 7-year-old Houston girl’s killer was black.
Gonzalez acknowledged at a press conference Sunday that he received a tip from King in the middle of the week that Barnes’s killer was not the white male initially suspected in the case.
King wrote Sunday on Instagram that he received the tip on Jan. 3 that a 20-year-old black man named Eric Black Jr. and another man had shot Barnes. (RELATED: Investigation Into Shooting Of Jazmine Barnes Has Taken A ‘New Direction’)
The girl was killed around 7 a.m. on Dec. 30 while riding in a car with her mother and three siblings.
“I reported this to the Sheriff immediately, because the witness was so compelling, but the sheriff and I both just could not make sense of it,” King wrote Sunday, shortly after Black Jr. had been charged with capital murder.
But King and Gonzalez’s timelines raise questions because both continued disseminating information suggesting that the suspect in the shooting was white.
Gonzalez retweeted posts as recently as Saturday of a composite sketch of a white man who was initially sought as a suspect in the case.
It is unclear what time Gonzalez circulated the tweets. He said Sunday that Black Jr. was apprehended on Saturday afternoon.
King also circulated the sketch after receiving the tip. He posted a request Friday on Twitter for information about Robert Cantrell, a white man who had been arrested in the Houston area on felony charges. Cantrell’s mugshot closely resembles the composite sketch, which was drawn by celebrity sketch artist Lois Gibson.
What more can you tell me about Robert Cantrell?
He was arrested in Houston hours after Jazmine was murdered on another violent crime spree.
We’ve had 20 people call or email us and say he is a racist, violent asshole and always has been.
Just tell me everything you know. pic.twitter.com/7p1XAku1cd
— Shaun King (@shaunking) January 4, 2019
Gibson is the same artist who drew a composite of a man who porn star Stormy Daniels claimed threatened her in 2011. That composite bears a striking resemblance to the sketch in the Barnes case.
Barnes’s murder drew widespread national media attention, partly because of suspicions that she was killed in a racially motivated shooting.
Barnes’s mother, LaPorsha Washington, asserted the shooting was a hate crime.
Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee echoed that theory at a rally Saturday.
“Do not be afraid to call this what it seems to be: a hate crime,” the Democrat told a crowd gathered at the Houston Walmart near where Barnes was killed.
The suspect in the case was initially described as a white male in his 30s or 40s driving a red pickup truck.
King and other activists and celebrities pushed that theory, with King setting a $100,000 reward for information leading to the suspect’s arrest.
Gonzalez said Sunday that the sheriff’s office received up to a thousand tips in the case. He also said he did not believe that there was anything nefarious behind a white man being falsely fingered as the initial suspect. He said the man driving the red truck was likely merely a witness who sped away after hearing gun fire.
This is not the first case in which King has made false allegations in racially charged cases.
King accused a Texas state trooper on May 20, 2018 by name of sexually assaulting a black woman while she was in jail. (RELATED: Shaun King Falsely Accuses Texas State Trooper Of Sexually Assaulting Woman)
The woman, Sherita Dixon-Cole, was a close friend of Lee Merritt, the same attorney who is working with Barnes’s family, King wrote at the time.
Shaun King accused a police officer– by name– of sexual assault and threatening to murder a black man. He was completely innocent. pic.twitter.com/4qw48J88xw
— Sandy Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) May 23, 2018
King acknowledged three days later that video footage showed the trooper did not assault Dixon-Cole.
The MOTHER KNEW IT WAS A BLACK MAN AND LIED TO THE PO-PO..................
Shaun King, the white guy who pretends to be black?
Transracial?
Talcum X
So many people want to start a race war, so sad:-(
LaPorsha
Well, at least it wasn’t LaBMW..................
“I reported this to the Sheriff immediately, because the witness was so compelling, but the sheriff and I both just could not make sense of it,”
Can ANYONE honestly say they didn’t immediately suspect this was remanufactured into another false hate crime?
AND the daughter swore he was White and could see his BLUE EYES. I knew something was amiss with this story because ALL the corrupt media was pushing the story 24/7.
I suspected from the beginning because it didn’t make any sense...........Apparently the Sheriff is a racist.............Bet HE DON’T GET REELECTED..............
Shaun King, the white guy who pretends to be black?
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Perhaps the apprehended killer is a black guy who identifies as a white racist. So, therefore, A WHITE RACIST KILLED THE LITTLE BLACK GIRL!
Same as Montgomery County, MD police chief Moose did during the D.C. sniper case. He knew the suspects were two male Negroes in a dark blue car, but continued to push the fiction of a Caucasian male in a white panel van, until forced by public outcry to tell the truth. The perps were then captured within hours, thanks to a tip from a citizen.
LAudi, LAudi, LAudi.
They SO want the hatred to exist. Sadly for them, it is rare a white kills a black from an agressive position, and nonexistent that a white man rapes a black woman. Daily we hear of this crap from blacks. Where is the hate? Who do we have reason to keep an eye on? The “youths” and “teens” are the agressors in almost 100% of these cases. When do we get an apology from that cow Jackson-Lee for declaring this a white on black hate crime? Why won’t those “teens” behave?
I'm waiting for hate filled Gayle King apologizes for repeating this lie.
Mom’s racked up an impressive collection of felonies. Makes me wonder how she was out of prison long enough to spawn 4 offspring.
Whitey h8ers gotta h8 whitey.
It’s just what they do.
Well, she had time to get her tongue pierced.
“Gibson is the same artist who drew a composite of a man who porn star Stormy Daniels claimed threatened her in 2011. That composite bears a striking resemblance to the sketch in the Barnes case”
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I would say this so-called celebrity sketch artist is pumping a dry well.
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