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[–]treesallaround 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (26子コメント)

Why has the City Paper corruption link been deleted? http://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/345sfc/the_corruption_of_city_paper_baltimore/

[–]BmoreInterestedWyman Park 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (8子コメント)

I think because there was already a thread about it: http://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/345iie/redhead_from_the_videos_here_to_clear_something_up/

[–]federal_thrillFederal Hill 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Can someone ELI5?

I know there was a massive thread on it yesterday (and smaller other threads) and that a woman may have been slandered ... is this resulting from one column or is there more to it?

[–]sydtronVioletville [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

idiots being idiots

internet is aflame over a dude holding an almost certainly stolen bottle of vodka (still had pourer attached) grabbing a purse

cue the /r/coontown people saying BLACK RACISM!! (ignoring it's just a fucking idiot)

next up people start culture jamming by saying redhead started it and the vodka dude was having his bag snatched (that meme went out way before city paper got involved, I saw it on another forum being touted in the same "well you're the real racist because <dude holding a fucking stolen vodka bottle stealing a purse re-framed with faux twitter account claiming to be friend redhead who was being racist and belligerent>"

eyewitness (city paper worker) being unreliable as witnesses are known to be in a sensational atmosphere thinks redhead was indeed starting it and piles onto the culture jamming meme

some of the city paper people pick up on it and keep rolling with it

detective eddie valiant shows up on reddit to pretty conclusively show what happened through actual video, reddit moral panics over the REAL REAL RACISTS, finally gets redhead to find a lawyer/stop posting/some combination thereof and that's where we are at now

also at some point in this timeline city paper says it is a distraction to talk about it, I believe well after eddie valiant did his detectivizin' on it all

[–]gothaggisMt. Vernon [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

this isn't exactly right. when those pictures first came out, everyone WAS saying he stole the purple bag from her, which he clearly did not. Then when a later picture emerged of him tugging on her purse trying to steal it, the story magically changed to they were always talking about her purse (which they clearly were not). i'm glad that thread has been removed.

[–]Talltimore 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

From what I understand, and I could be wrong, it goes something like this:

A picture of riots shows man and woman struggling over a bag, the racist part of the internet responds, "Hurr durr, all black people are stealing everything constantly."

A photographer for the City Paper shows up and says, "ACTUALLY, she was stealing from him!" The internet argues about whether this is true or not. After a while it seems like maybe the woman was agitating, but the man was probably stealing her purse.

New photos and angles develop and it becomes clear that the woman does not seem to be agitating and is instead trying to calm the situation down, and the man was in fact trying to steal her purse.

Meanwhile, the photographer has walked back his previous statement to say, "Maybe she wasn't agitating, I don't know, no one knows," which is cold comfort to the woman who has now been slandered by City Paper employees.

All the while everyone is forgetting about the fact that a man died under strange circumstances in police custody, and thousands of Baltimoreans marched peacefully in their search for answers.

[–]dmasterdyneHampden 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Good summary. And people were coming out of the woodwork with all kinds of allegations about journalism and integrity, most of which are outsiders that don't know anything about that situation, baltimore, or the City Paper.

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