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‘I’m… At A Loss For Words’: The Unraveling Narrative Behind The Atlantic’s Defund-The-Police ‘Shooting’ Tale
thefederalist ^ | JULY 16, 2020 | Christopher Bedford

Posted on 07/17/2020 8:41:30 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

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1 posted on 07/17/2020 8:41:30 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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Video or it didn’t happen...


2 posted on 07/17/2020 8:43:57 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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That shooting story is a lie.


3 posted on 07/17/2020 8:44:10 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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The truth will make you free. Lies will enslave you.


4 posted on 07/17/2020 8:44:42 AM PDT by exnavy (american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
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Yet another victimization hoax. I wonder if the readers of THE ATLANTIC will ever be informed.


5 posted on 07/17/2020 8:44:55 AM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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A story in The Atlantic.

The Atlantic is full of garbage, crabs and sewage.

It’s also the name of an ocean.


6 posted on 07/17/2020 8:46:44 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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The scum will do and say ANYTHING to further their narrative....anything!


7 posted on 07/17/2020 8:47:28 AM PDT by billyboy15
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Social Justice activist and lawyer Derecka Purnell

8 posted on 07/17/2020 8:48:19 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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It’s such a massive injustice that whether it is true or not is rendered irrelevant


9 posted on 07/17/2020 8:48:32 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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“because he had ignored the basketball sign-in sheet.”

Of course it never happened, but look at their made up premise. It is built around not being able to follow a simple rule; and they saw this as a believable scenario. Telling.


10 posted on 07/17/2020 8:51:50 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Don't care. Still voting for Trump.)
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The propaganda machine that is MSM dues not worry about the truth. Get the narrative out and if the story turns out to be false it doesn’t matter.


11 posted on 07/17/2020 8:52:56 AM PDT by iamgalt
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FAKE NEWS IS EVERYWHERE!


12 posted on 07/17/2020 8:53:57 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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What a bunch of malarkey.


13 posted on 07/17/2020 9:01:53 AM PDT by spincaster (ust)
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“I was teaching my sister how to shoot free throws when the officer stormed in alongside the court, drew his weapon, and shot the boy in the arm. My sister and I hid in the locker room for hours afterward.”

Such obvious BS.


14 posted on 07/17/2020 9:02:04 AM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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"Even though there is no evidence the seriousness of the charge is what matters!"


15 posted on 07/17/2020 9:05:11 AM PDT by Bratch (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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Yep.


16 posted on 07/17/2020 9:05:40 AM PDT by bwest
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The story also says the cop shot “his” cousin. So was it a black cop? Why would he be upset at his cousin for not not signing a sheet.


17 posted on 07/17/2020 9:06:46 AM PDT by sharkhawk (Chelsea Dagger)
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She apparently caught COVID, even though she insists she wore her mask and social distanced and washed her hands. Her doctor said people can get it through their eyes (which is true, although more if you wipe it onto your eyes).

But either she didn’t do as good a job with masks as she thought, or maybe she is trying to prove masks don’t actually work.

In any case, the article is still interesting; i’m not for abolishing the police, but it is not often someone at least TRIES to make a real argument out of it, even if they do manage to have made-up childhood memories driving them.


18 posted on 07/17/2020 9:12:31 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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The editor responsible for publishing this load of b.s. is named Yoni Applebaum?!?!?! YONI?

What an amazingly appropriate name.


19 posted on 07/17/2020 9:13:35 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Guns don't kill people. Planned Parenthood does.)
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““I started her article thinking abolition was impossible and ending thinking it must happen,” the president of a social justice think tank at Harvard...”

It takes an extraordinarily weak mind to make a 180 degree shift in thinking based on a silly story. Such is the mental capacity of the social justice wizards at Harvard. Even if this type of incident happened once a year it is still STUPID to abolish the police, just based on cost/benefit analysis.


20 posted on 07/17/2020 9:19:36 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (In America 2.0, blacks are sacred and can do no wrong.)
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