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Shaun King Threatened To Sue Former Classmate For Slander After Posting Article
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Posted on 08/19/2015 2:04:16 PM PDT by Gamecock

As questions have swirled for nearly a month about the background of Shaun King, the Black Lives Matter activist has refused all requests for comment and clarification from the media.

But he has fought back against the allegations made against him, just behind the scenes.

King, 35, has threatened to sue a former high school classmate for slander after he posted and commented on his Facebook page about a Daily Caller article laying out evidence undermining King’s claim that as a high school student in Versailles, Ky. he was attacked by a dozen “redneck” students in a 1995 hate crime.

TheDC obtained a record of that threat, which King issued late last month through Facebook chat.

King, a social justice blogger at Daily Kos who became a prominent figure following the death of Michael Brown, has claimed in interviews and in his recent book that his beating was racially motivated. He also said it was one of the first hate crimes registered in the state of Kentucky.

But TheDC obtained a police report from the incident and spoke to the detective who investigated. Though King has claimed he almost died from the attack, the report characterized King’s injuries as minor. He was driven to the hospital by his mother that day, and reportedly suffered an abrasion to his cheek and had some pain in his ribs and back.

The report made no indication that the attack was a hate crime. The detective on the case also told TheDC that there was no evidence of a hate crime.

There was also only one suspect listed in the report. He was charged with fourth-degree assault.

As The Blaze reported, a fuller version of the police report shows that the student who beat up King claimed he did so because King had threatened his ex-girlfriend the day before over an $8 CD she accidentally broke weeks before.

King declined to respond to the accusations last month, instead accusing TheDC of being “hateful” and having “nothing but bad intentions” in publishing the story. He also did not respond to The Blaze, which gave him two weeks to respond. He also did not comment for Breitbart News, which published an article on Wednesday providing evidence that King’s mother and father are both white.

Instead of disputing TheDC, The Blaze or Breitbart, King contacted a Woodford County High School classmate who had posted TheDC article on his Facebook page late last month. Other former students who attended the school agreed on the social media site that King’s story about the incident did not match what they remembered.

“Push this [REDACTED]. Keep pushing it. Call the local media, the national media, and tell them how I made all of this up and let’s see what happens man,” he wrote in the Facebook message. “I want you to do it yourself so I can sue you for slander.”

King did finally responded on Wednesday to some of the accusations against him.

“Incredibly painful to share this, but I hope you’ll read and share this as well,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

“Over 20 years ago, when I was 15 years old, I was beaten so badly I missed the next 20 months of school recovering from fractures to my face and ribs, and severe injuries to my spine. I had three brutal spinal surgeries during that time and it changed the entire course of my life. I received counseling for PTSD and have had multiple spinal surgeries and years of physical therapy since.”

King did not address the individual pieces of evidence laid out against him. He did not offer evidence that the incident was in any way racially motivated or that it was ever recorded as Kentucky’s first hate crime. He also did not repeat his past claim that he was beaten by a large group of “racists” and “rednecks.” Nor did he address the claim made by the boy who fought him in 1995 that the incident arose over a dispute about a broken CD.

“Sadly, several popular conservative websites are saying I made the whole thing up in an attempt to discredit my work to end police brutality in our country,” King continued.

He then shared a post from another Woodford County High School classmate who says he witnessed the incident. The man asserted that he saw a dozen “big white farm boys” attack King.

The former classmate accused the police, the students involved in the attack, and school and city officials of engaging in a cover-up by mis-reporting the details of the incident.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: afroturf; astroturf; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; creepyasscracker; hankhill; propane; shaunking
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1 posted on 08/19/2015 2:04:16 PM PDT by Gamecock
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2 posted on 08/19/2015 2:06:21 PM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: Larry Lucido; SaveFerris; FredZarguna

3 posted on 08/19/2015 2:08:18 PM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: Gamecock

That pic makes him look like a honkie cracker.


4 posted on 08/19/2015 2:09:05 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Paladin2

Which he is.


5 posted on 08/19/2015 2:09:50 PM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: Gamecock

Damn, bro’ be looking like Hank Hill in that pic.


6 posted on 08/19/2015 2:10:10 PM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Gamecock

Probably got his ass kicked for acting like a thug but couldn’t back it up. He’s a creepy ass craker; no two ways about it.


7 posted on 08/19/2015 2:10:20 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: Gamecock

Dude, are your dad and mom white? Confess the truth. Did you get a scholarship from Oprah based on a lie??? I wonder why Oprah didn’t check that before she laid out the cash.


8 posted on 08/19/2015 2:10:52 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Gamecock

He looks like Rachel Madcow with a crew cut.


9 posted on 08/19/2015 2:11:21 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: Gamecock
Never misunderestimate the misrememberings of liberals.

King, a social justice blogger at Daily Kos

Just a bit of advice Shaun, I'd leave that off your resume.
10 posted on 08/19/2015 2:11:39 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Gamecock

Cracker, honky, peckerwood, ofay, get Whitey!!!


11 posted on 08/19/2015 2:16:44 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Gamecock

Ah be more black than Shaun King and ahm pretty damned white.


12 posted on 08/19/2015 2:19:44 PM PDT by x1stcav (Oh! No! I just learned Freddy Mecury was a queer.)
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To: dainbramaged
Little cute white boy:


13 posted on 08/19/2015 2:19:44 PM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: Gamecock

If you refute my lies, I’ll sue you for slander.

Now, why didn’t Hitlery think of that?


14 posted on 08/19/2015 2:21:38 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Gamecock

Where did you get that?.......................


15 posted on 08/19/2015 2:24:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/08/19/18/2B7F243A00000578-3203522-Shaun_King-a-84_1440004746708.jpg


16 posted on 08/19/2015 2:26:45 PM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: Gamecock

I wonder how they got it? In the UK!...................


17 posted on 08/19/2015 2:27:45 PM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Gamecock

Do you want to go to The Gap?


18 posted on 08/19/2015 2:39:41 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: csvset

Damn, bro’ be looking like Hank Hill in that pic.


Does he sell propane and propane accessories


19 posted on 08/19/2015 2:46:18 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Gamecock

Someone like Shaun King is a perfect candidate for a beating. He should have had more of them, particularly for lying. These characters want to make a living from their Black victimhood, and then we find out they are White, a mental illness becoming more popular, it seems.


20 posted on 08/19/2015 2:51:23 PM PDT by txrefugee
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