Posted on 04/30/2015 5:40:44 AM PDT by rickyrikardo
“We have no information or evidence at this point to indicate that there is a prior pre-existing spinal injury,” said Jason Downs, an attorney representing one of Gray’s relatives, told the Sun. “It’s a rumor.”
And yet that rumor might have caused real damage in a country already polarized on the subject of race and the police. The story quickly spread to several other Web sites, such as Free Republic and the Conservative Tree House, which called Gray’s supposedly pre-existing injury “a potential game changing discovery. A site called New York City Guns ran the headline “Dead Baltimore Drug Dealer Had Spinal Surgery DAYS Before He Collapsed in Police Van (Rioters Say ‘OOPS’).”
“Boom! Seems legit,” a commenter wrote on the Conservative Tree House.
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Agree.
*WE* have no information. That doesn’t mean there isn’t any. It just means the lawyer has no documentation. .... assuming he’s not lying.
I agree that those of us reading assorted news reports don’t know what’s really the truth yet. Police brutality? Self-inflicted? Pre-existing? Combination platter?
“And yet that rumor might have caused real damage in a country already polarized on the subject of race and the police.”
Oh now they are worried about facts. Hands up, don’t shoot, not so much.
Or incarcerated?
I’m in no way defending him, but that is one action that I find understandable, given his history.
ok...what do you say that Freerepublic is?
It’s a site, not a blog.
An aggregator, not a blog.
Blogs are self-published clearing houses of stolen material and viruses...
And woefully inadequate writing with sensational titles designed to get hits, regardless of accuracy.
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