‘I’m… At A Loss For Words’:
The Unraveling Narrative Behind The
Atlantic’s Defund-The-Police ‘Shooting’ Tale
The Federalist,
by
Christopher Bedford
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
7/17/2020 4:31:08 AM
When social justice activist and lawyer Derecka Purnell was just 12 years old, she and her sister watched a police officer shoot a young boy in a city recreation center because he had ignored the basketball sign-in sheet. This jarring, emotional, and deeply unsettling story was published July 6 at The Atlantic, in the section reserved for ideas, under the bold, attention-grabbing headline, “How I Became a Police Abolitionist.”
Purnell’s deeply personal story of shattered innocence and shattered bones at the end of a policeman’s gun was shared widely among top journalists and activists. “I started her article thinking abolition was impossible and ending thinking it must happen,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/17/2020 5:08:59 AM (No. 481044)
Blacks of a certain political bent lie all the time. Their whole political philosophy is based on lying. Their concept of justice is a house of cards. The “Atlantic” is a rag for liars, libelers, and slanderers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 7/17/2020 6:25:06 AM (No. 481082)
"watched a police officer shoot a young boy in a city recreation center because he had ignored the basketball sign-in sheet."
Oh, this just happens all of the time! BS.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/17/2020 6:41:10 AM (No. 481093)
two fake journalists, both black, stand out in my memory.
One of them, a young man writing for the New York Times, pretended to travel to various locations around the U.S., but never left NY City. His final story, which tripped him up, was when he wrote about looking over the tobacco fields of West Virginia, in a particular story. There were no tobacco fields.
The other, a young black woman writing for the Washington Post, wrote a story about a heroin addicted child in d.C., under the age of 10.
she was a warded a Pulitzer Prize for her story, but when the Pulitzer people tried to confirm her bio, they discovered it was fake, fake, fake. she had claimed a college degree that did not exist.
and when they checked out the story about the little child who was mainlining heroin, they discovered the child did not exist. The reporter, whose first name was Janet, I recall, said the child was a 'composite' person. (Barack Obola did the same thing in Dreams From My Father.)
Janet lost her Pulitzer Prize. Barack Obola kept her Nobel Prize, awarded to him for nothing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 7/17/2020 6:45:07 AM (No. 481095)
Oh, you right-wing Deplorables are soo LITERAL! What Ms Purnell wrote may not be “your truth” or even the truth at all but it is “her truth” and the narrative is what counts.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 7/17/2020 7:29:22 AM (No. 481130)
It is pretty clear that the original description of the story was left unfocused to allow Purnell to make things up. She specifically names some things in the area. The center still exists, she must know the name. The year of such a traumatic event must live in her memory as well. Details make such a story "real". But details also give a fake story away.
We have seen falsification of social justice tales many times. However, because no one remembers this happening, it doesn't mean it doesn't. Maybe the kid was punched, not shot, but shot makes it more dramatic. Maybe it happened as told but was never reported; it WAS in a city. Who really knows?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
govlawyer 7/17/2020 7:52:22 AM (No. 481152)
The Narrative© does not require truth; it merely requires a good story.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/17/2020 8:51:47 AM (No. 481209)
Meet the black Christine Blasey Ford...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/17/2020 9:37:53 AM (No. 481264)
Maybe they are illegal aliens from an alternate dimension?
These 'Activists' need rejected from the country. They can spin their tales to Idi Amin, Ayatollah Kohmeni, or pudge boy in North Korea. After the novelty wears off, those 'treasures of humanity's will explain to them how REAL tyrants operate.
Then they'll get buried face down in a ditch.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/17/2020 9:56:05 AM (No. 481297)
Well that is five minutes of reading time I'll never get back. Purnell should have told people it was a fictional cautionary tale. We can't assume that all black writers are liars, or fantasize about murder, just that this one is.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 7/17/2020 9:57:31 AM (No. 481302)
In other words, like all good progressive journalists, she lied. She created a personal disaster out of thin air to fit the narrative she wanted to tell. She lied and the truth died.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 7/17/2020 10:33:56 AM (No. 481350)
She probably did see a 12yr. old boy shot, but it wasn't by a policeman.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 7/17/2020 1:54:11 PM (No. 481634)
#3 - the whole time I was reading the article, I was thinking of those exact two fabrications. I'll bet if someone at the Atlantic decides to look into this one, we'll have a third.
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