Posted on 01/27/2020 3:15:13 AM PST by SkyPilot
Washington Post journalist has been suspended by the newspaper after she tweeted a link on Sunday to a years-old story about the Kobe Bryant rape case just hours after the basketball legend and his daughter were killed in a helicopter crash.
Felicia Sonmez, who covers national politics for the Post, took to Twitter shortly after the world learned of Bryant’s death along with eight others aboard his private helicopter which crashed outside of Los Angeles.
She posted a link to an April 2016 story from the news site The Daily Beast which carried the headline: ‘Kobe Bryant’s Disturbing Rape Case: The DNA Evidence, the Accuser’s Story, and the Half-Confession.’
The tweet generated hundreds of shares and thousands of likes as well as many comments.
Sonmez says she has received death threats after posting the tweets.
In follow-up tweets, Sonmez wrote: ‘Well, THAT was eye-opening.
Bryant was arrested and charged with sexual assault and false imprisonment after a 19-year-old woman alleged he raped her in a local hotel room
‘To the 10,000 people (literally) who have commented and emailed me with abuse and death threats, please take a moment and read the story - which was written 3+ years ago, and not by me.
‘Any public figure is worth remembering in their totality even if that public figure is beloved and that totality unsettling.’
Sonmez continued: ‘That folks are responding with rage and threats toward me (someone who didn’t even write the piece but found it well-reported) speaks volumes about the pressure people come under to stay silent in these cases.’
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Not me. I saw a tweet today from Baltimore Sun asking “What did Kobe Bryant mean to you?”
I almost tweeted “ Nothing”
I feel badly for the anonymous others on the helicopter
Yes, I agree.
Some folks simply feel that if he actually had "turned his life around" (stopped wanting to cum in girls' faces, etc.), then some drooling reverence is due him.
Baloney.
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Wish peace to the families of the dead, and may they have better days ahead.
But the media can take the incessant reverence for Kobe Bryant and place it in the toilet where it belongs.
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See post # 44.
As of 2017 Kobe said he'd take a knee with the other morons. Mr Burgess Owens is quite the opposite.
Boy you went absurdly over the top in what sounds like envy or jealousy or something. I’m not sure what is really angering you so much.
It’s sad that some of you are going Insane on a thread about a young girl dying.
Your hatred blinds you from sympathy.
It’s an embarrassment to the board.
But there will always be some...
Kobe, Kobe, Kobe, let him RIP, biggest story in the world as the 500 million dollar man went down in his chopper. How about some thoughts and prayers for the GI’s killed in the middle east since the first of the year?
Info on the other folks, including the baseball coach and his family that died.
https://heavy.com/sports/2020/01/john-altobelli
“The “rape” story was a stick up. No “rape” happened.”
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Mularkey, baloney, bull!
Read the police report ... his character THEN is on blazing display!
But, it is a Freeper tradition that Freepers hate scumbags except when they are on their sports team.
Then they will defend them through thick and thin.
I have read Freepers defend Ped State during the Sandusky scandal and Aaron Hernandez during his murder trail.
It doesn't matter what happened in Colorado, what is true and what is not, Kobe will be defended here because he was a great basketball player on their favorite team.
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You’re allowed to disagree ...... in America >>>>> ....... so far.
;-)
It wasn’t just this one alleged false imprisonment and rape of a 19-year old young woman with mental health problems (she had twice attempted suicide and had been hospitalized only a few months earlier). Bryant also admitted to a long term adulterous affair with a woman he identified as “Michelle.” I’ll make the leap that Bryant had sexual encounters in many of the cities in which he played or partied.
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This is what I remember about Bryant, not his basketball achievements.
+. Sad isn’t it.
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Excellent. Reading comprehension comes in handy in life.
Are you implying Kobe was the pilot? I don’t think that is right.
We have no odea if he was guilty of it or not and his fame and fortune could well have contributed with his getting away with it. But we don’t label the supposedly guilty as guilty in this country unless we have substantive proof and/or such a verdict in a court of law. And yes, of course, we are all mixed, fallen souls and any level of criminal can ultimately be forgiven in Christ.
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...... well said.
If I remember correctly the rape test for this woman came back with 3 different DNA in her underwear.
The case was quickly settled after that.
Horrible tradegy. So was a helicopter crash years back, when I was in the service of our great nation. Marine copter went in ,purposely avoiding populated area. All crewmen were Killed. Those are my heroes. My father and Grandfather are my heros. We have lost our way.
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It's true.
The article referencing it is up thread if you care to read it.
The rape allegation was the first thing I thought of too. But Kobe has become a saint now that he has transcended this life.
And now he Is dead. That should satisfy your outrage.
“salacious” -— a rather inappropriate adjective
Clearly, the “victim” was satisfied with the end.
His wife obviously forgave him.
He is dead. And you guys just want to rant. Give up the hate.
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