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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 01:46 PM Oct 2019

"we found a photo of young men posing with guns... how we found out exactly who they were."



ProPublica ✔ @propublica

The new Emmet Till memorial weighs 500 pounds, is over an inch thick and is completely bulletproof. (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/us/emmett-til-bulletproof-sign.html …)

In July, we found a photo of young men posing with guns in front of the old bullet-ridden memorial.

Here’s how we found out exactly who they were.




12:10 PM - Oct 21, 2019


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"we found a photo of young men posing with guns... how we found out exactly who they were." (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Oct 2019 OP
Because they took a pic of themselves posing in front of their vandalism? Aristus Oct 2019 #1
Outstanding reporting from ProPublica! Dennis Donovan Oct 2019 #2
Confirms my belief that no rightwingers have any brains. George II Oct 2019 #9
... Scurrilous Oct 2019 #3
We found them on dumbass.com RainCaster Oct 2019 #4
Oh no... Grokenstein Oct 2019 #6
I love your version! RainCaster Oct 2019 #14
If they have that mindset. LiberalFighter Oct 2019 #5
Till was murdered 50 years ago gratuitous Oct 2019 #8
People like them aggravate me. LiberalFighter Oct 2019 #10
You rang? liberaltrucker Oct 2019 #11
don't lock 'em up until after you feel the first >thump< Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2019 #12
Sadly, there are thousands more just like them. bitterross Oct 2019 #7
Between Charlottesville and Till's memorial and so many other issues... SMC22307 Oct 2019 #13

Aristus

(66,449 posts)
1. Because they took a pic of themselves posing in front of their vandalism?
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 01:48 PM
Oct 2019


Hope they go up on charges very soon.

Grokenstein

(5,727 posts)
6. Oh no...
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 04:34 PM
Oct 2019

I've a variant of that damned Farmers Only dot com jingle stuck in my head again.

"You don't have to be lonely, at Dumbass Incel dot com!"

Now we wait for it to become reality...

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
8. Till was murdered 50 years ago
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 04:36 PM
Oct 2019

These young fellows weren't even a gleam in Daddy's eye when that happened. You have to wonder what kind of upbringing they had, the environment in which they lived, and moved, and had their being, to go so far out of the way to find the memorial and pose for their deplorable photo. I knew guys in college who wouldn't have gone to that much trouble to get laid.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,409 posts)
12. don't lock 'em up until after you feel the first >thump<
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 07:15 PM
Oct 2019

Skid marks prove you tried; waiting for the first thump means it's only your word to go by.




(just snark, of course)

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
7. Sadly, there are thousands more just like them.
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 04:35 PM
Oct 2019

There will be no shortage of young racists like these boys who will take it as a challenge to deface and damage the "bullet-proof" monument. I will not be surprised when the story is posted about this latest one being dragged down or pushed down by another set of young men who still think they are better than other people due to the pigment levels in their skin.

I would like to think I'm wrong about this but I grew up in the South. I know these people.

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
13. Between Charlottesville and Till's memorial and so many other issues...
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 07:22 PM
Oct 2019

ProPublica has really been on fire. I hope people donate.

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