Refusing to let the media define
the Ahmaud Arbery narrative
American Thinker,
by
Andrea Widburg
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
5/13/2020 7:31:56 AM
In the Ahmaud Arbery case, the media, as always, are theorizing in advance of the data, and they are doing so in service to a divisive racial agenda. The undisputed facts (excluding the inevitably self-interested statements from the men arrested) are as follows:
Travis McMichael shot 24-year-old Arbery. The question is whether it was self-defense, manslaughter or murder.
Greg and Travis McMichaels (father and son) are white, while Arbery was black.
Videos show Arbery entering a home under construction and Arbery inside the construction site. (snip) What’s happening now is reminiscent of the George Zimmerman matter.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Lazyman 5/13/2020 7:44:05 AM (No. 409612)
Does anyone actually expect the media to just report the facts without convicting a white suspect or exonerating a black one?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Clinger 5/13/2020 8:16:27 AM (No. 409660)
We are supposed to believe that redneck racists and police are indiscriminately hunting and gunning down innocent young black men with regularity. Yet every rallying cry case thrust into the public limelight turns out to be at the very least debatable and unclear. If the narrative were true, wouldn't you think that there would be high profile cases that present with a degree of clarity that indeed young black males are being gunned down by racists and racist cops?
Why would questionable cases and even some proving the outright 180° opposite, be the ones raised up the flag pole into the public eye? Are clear examples that rare or even nonexistent? I have a hard time believing that there are no such instances to embellish and misrepresent as the norm.
Heaping attention on yet another innocent mere child with a felony record caught trespassing could be taken as evidence that there are no innocent squeaky clean young black men gunned down to chose from so this is the best they have.
And if caught by an armed citizen when all he did was snoop around, why would he grab the gun? Because he expected to be indiscriminately gunned down? Why would he think that? If he was largely innocent isn't he then now dead because of the race hucksters manufactured the expectation that he was good as dead anyway and he might as well try to grab the gun? The media has blood on their hands, the race hucksters have blood on their hands, the progressive PC crowd have blood on their hands.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 5/13/2020 8:16:53 AM (No. 409661)
The media wants us to believe that white people chase black people for running in their neighborhoods and shooting them.
When you add more facts, like the guy was trespassing on a construction site (to scope out what's available to be carried off, like copper pipe-my speculation) and then he was shot while grabbing a shotgun from someone...sounds to me like this was a citizen's arrest where the suspect didn't cooperate, ran, fought, and tried to seize the weapon.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
janjan 5/13/2020 8:24:33 AM (No. 409668)
‘White guy shoots black guy’ is automatically racist in the eyes of the media. It doesn’t matter what the evidence shows. I do think however that this guy and his son were playing Cops and Robbers and legal or not bringing a gun to their game was pretty stupid. The two of them could have pinned him and waited for actual police to arrive. This story would have had a much different ending.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 5/13/2020 8:29:56 AM (No. 409676)
This is not the right case for American Thinker to try to defend. It was a bad shoot. Private citizens cannot simply seize other private citizens at gunpoint for suspicion. When they do, it's not justice - it's kidnapping. I don't care what crimes Arbery had in his past, even his very recent past. He was not committing one when he was hunted down (by people who knew him, incidentally), assaulted with a weapon, and shot. Like him or not, Arbery was the victim in this.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Newtsche 5/13/2020 8:33:06 AM (No. 409686)
Excellent thoughts, #2.
It's so sad a credulous public is willing to eat whatever the day's given narrative is served to them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jacksin5 5/13/2020 9:07:07 AM (No. 409739)
What the Media does in all these cases is make it difficult,if not impossible, to be able to select an impartial jury prior to trial. The Media is passing judgement, in effect denying the accused the right to a fair trial. Even if acquitted, they will be considered guilty by many in the community and elsewhere.
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A guy "running" in essentially his underwear certainly hasn't stolen the crown jewels or a chop saw from a construction site, has he? When my neighborhood was under construction it was not uncommon to see people stop and enter uncompleted houses. Many were prospective buyers looking at the quality of the work being done. Others are buyers doing the same at their "new" place. And some were just curious. Undoubtedly some were crooks, except I never heard of anything stolen.
#5 is exactly right. Let's say the victim was a perp...someone had called 911. One would presume the cops put down their donuts and were on their way. There was no emergency, no victims, not even a sniff of any crime having been committed. And for these two to pull arms on another citizen after chasing him in their truck... What were they expecting to find? What valuable loot could he be carrying from a construction site? None was apparently found. Neither was a weapon.
And to dredge up two infractions...meaningless. Perhaps I will be proven completely wrong...perhaps some jury will find the shooter faced a lethal threat to allow lethal self-defense. There was no crime committed in their presence - it was all "suspicion". I expect these guys are deservedly going to jail for this apparent travesty.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/13/2020 9:21:51 AM (No. 409754)
We know in the first sentence from the talking heads at NPR, CNN and the other alphabets that the three assailants were white and Ahmaud was black. They reveal their bias by mentioning it over and over and over. There are many reasons why a black man passes through a white neighborhood "every day" and most of them are not good. If he had been shot by blacks in a black neighborhood he would be another statistic and we would not know his name. Barack? Any comments?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mizzmac 5/13/2020 9:41:21 AM (No. 409781)
Thank you for bucking the trend, #5. Talking heads on networks do not tell me what to think. I can think for myself. I can also see. And what I saw in those few seconds, was not right. Not in any way. Let justice prevail.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/13/2020 10:15:45 AM (No. 409824)
The leftist media want to enslave, I mean, inflame minority voters into seeing this as yet another example of universal white racism. And for the shooters it certainly may suggest they had more than self-defense on their minds. No one has the right to play 'policeman' especially not at the point of a gun when no crime is evident nor anyone's safety at risk. These two clowns are murderers plain and simple and should go to jail for many years.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Jennie C. 5/13/2020 10:28:39 AM (No. 409842)
Who was this guy?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/13/2020 10:53:18 AM (No. 409886)
One of the worst things that will come out of this, not counting a young man's death, is that if the verdict doesn't go with the racist 'white kills black' narrative, blacks will riot and much property will be destroyed. The two race baiters, Al and Jesse, haven't stirred up enough black rage yet, but I'm sure it's coming.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 5/13/2020 11:37:01 AM (No. 409953)
One incredibly stupid mistake was compounded by another incredibly stupid mistake. The armed men didn't consider the inevitable outcome if it escalated into a situation where they had to use their weapons. They should have known they would be guilty regardless of the circumstances. Arbery tried to disarm a man pointing a weapon at him with another armed man backing him up. Not a bright move in anyone's tactical response regimen.
Probably the worse consequence is the media and their sensationalizing the incident. For me, it is unbelievable that the pastor of our large church spoke of the incident and the horrible, unconscionable sin of racism in our nation that we must strive to overcome. Many of us are sick to death of being called racists by every virtue-signalling SJW! We've had it!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Faithfully 5/13/2020 11:49:32 AM (No. 409961)
Did the jogger live in the neighborhood?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
maryann4629 5/13/2020 12:35:49 PM (No. 410007)
#15, I don't know, but does it matter? Seems to me, it's legal to jog in other people's neighborhoods.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
zoidberg 5/13/2020 1:33:54 PM (No. 410059)
"In Georgia, it is legal to make a citizen's arrest if a crime is committed in the citizen's presence or within his knowledge."
The McMichaels did not see a crime being committed. They had no right to detain Arbery. And Greg McMichael, being a former cop, should have known this.
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