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(Found on facebook.)
Let me tell you the story of the red truck and how it came to be the focus of this investigation. Two men, in a completely different vehicle, pulled up and shot and killed Jazmine Barnes, shot her mother, and injured her sisters. Jazmine and the girls were still in pajamas. Her mother and the girls never saw the shooter. They heard the shots, saw that Jazmine was shot in the head, that her mother was shot, and then looked up and saw this red truck with a white man driving it peeling off. THREE separate eyewitnesses, each credible, who also heard the shooting, also saw this truck speeding off. I spoke to each of them. They also assumed the white man driving it fired the shots. A brave man even followed the red truck in his own car and got a good look at him. A tow truck driver also saw the truck and got a look at him. In the meantime, the two men that actually shot and killed Jazmine drove off in a completely different direction through the neighborhood. They each later claimed that they thought they were shooting someone from a rival gang. Yes, they did it. No, they werent framed. It just took several days to solve it.
Shaun King
underpants
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(57,523 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)For instance:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/7-year-old-girl-killed-white-man-pulls-alongside-black-familys-car-opens-fire/
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Everyone kept saying, after each shooting, "There was a white van."
Turns out there's always a white van in the vicinity because they're so common.
I'm glad they've caught the two, but we know that will not be enough to give this family peace. What a tragic loss.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)It doesn't change the fact that a family is devastated, or that law enforcement busted their ass to get to the truth of the matter, but a certain subset of the media just went, 'ah well' and looked elsewhere for the next juicy story.
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)Thousands of African-American children are gunned down annually; this is no longer a unique story.