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2020-05-12 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Black Georgia man, 20, is arrested for setting up fake Facebook page in support of Ahmaud Arbery's two killers and threatening protesters who paid their respects at the spot where the 25-year-old jogger was 'lynched'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Rashawn Smith, 20, is alleged to have created a fake Facebook page which he then used to send 'hoax' threats to protesters demanding justice in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery

  • Arbery, 25, was gunned down while jogging in his neighborhood near Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23

  • Greg McMichael, 64, and his son, Travis McMichael, 34, were initially freed as local prosecutors declined to charge them

  • But after video of the shooting emerged, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over the case and arrested the two men on Thursday, charging them with homicide and aggravated assault
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Right on cue.
Posted by gorb 2020-05-12 01:06||   2020-05-12 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Arbery, 25, was gunned down while jogging in his neighborhood

Eh?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-12 01:14||   2020-05-12 01:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Should add that recent Michelle Malkin story to the "Related" section as well.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-12 04:59||   2020-05-12 04:59|| Front Page Top

#4 i still have yet to see definitive proof that this guy was a 'jogger' like every single media outlet describes him.

i've seen photos where it looked like he was wearing heavy boots, not quite what i would describe as jogging material.

there's probably blame due all around, but i'd like to see something definitive as to whether he was really jogging or doing something else. the media has already decided he was jogging and they always lead with that...
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-05-12 08:34||   2020-05-12 08:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Waffle House going Georgia rooineks with guns. Few surprises here. Perhaps five to ten in a federal pen and never owning a firearm again will cure them of taking the law into their own hands.

The dead man was probably a POS as well, but we will never know for sure.
Innocent until proven guilty. Just my two cents worth.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-12 08:39||   2020-05-12 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Funny how NBC got busted for editing that Barr interview as NBC was also the same gang that edited Zimmerman's 9-1-1 call to make it "more apparent" that it was racially motivated.

After the Jesse Smollett garbage, each incident the media & politicians jump on should immediately require more scrutiny.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-12 08:41||   2020-05-12 08:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Zman: "The word “jogger” is now the preferred word of choice to describe the young black male creeping around in the neighborhood, looking for trouble."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-12 09:53||   2020-05-12 09:53|| Front Page Top

#8 ^Especially if it's not his neighborhood?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-12 10:32||   2020-05-12 10:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Related, per Clem:

Michelle Malkin: Top 3 Reasons to Doubt the Ahmaud "Just a Jogger" Arbery Narrative
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-12 12:46||   2020-05-12 12:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Doesn't matter if he was a jogger or not. There is no stand your ground protection when you chase someone and assault them, and there is no death penalty for theft. The guys that killed this guy should be locked up.

The hoax guy who set up the Facebook account should go to jail for hate crimes as well.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-05-12 13:13||   2020-05-12 13:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Totally agree with #10. Let's also agree that the law looking the other way in this case is identical to the law looking the other way in #Obamagate.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-12 14:59||   2020-05-12 14:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Has the law looked the other way in #Obamagate or have they just moved slower than we'd all prefer?
Posted by ruprecht 2020-05-12 15:21||   2020-05-12 15:21|| Front Page Top

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