ABC's Miami Affiliate Doxxes Rubio Canvasser Who Was Brutally Attacked, Labels Him White Supremacist
A man canvassing for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in the Miami area was brutally attacked Sunday night, as we reported earlier. According to a tweet from Rubio, which was accompanied by pictures of the bloodied and bruised man in an ambulance, someone told the canvasser that “Republicans are not welcome here,” and then four people physically attacked the canvasser, causing internal bleeding and a broken jaw.
Just hours later, ABC’s Miami affiliate ran a story headlined “Hialeah police: ‘No indication’ of political motive in attack on Rubio canvasser,” although the rest of the police spokesman’s statement said, “at this time,” and although the initial report is only about two paragraphs long – indicating that full statements have not been given.
And, although the police did not identify the victim, ABC got right into investigative mode and doxxed him, then linked him to an alleged “white supremacist” group.
Despicable.
WPLG then named the victim and reported that he’d been arrested in 2017 during a protest in Hollywood, Florida regarding renaming Confederate statues and monuments, accused of “jabbing a flag, containing a Confederate design, at people.” They don’t note whether he was convicted or not, but they do note that he was wearing a t-shirt that said, “League of the South” and that the Southern Poverty Law Center considers that group a ‘neo-Confederate’ hate group.”
WPLG reports that the victim “has spoken publicly about his past support of white nationalism, but said he changed his ways” and that he initially agreed to be interviewed by the station about this incident but then changed his mind. Who can blame him?
Assuming that the victim’s background as reported is accurate – both the arrest and the part about changing his ways – still, what does it matter? There’s no indication that the attacker knew any of this, and even if the attacker’s motive for telling the canvasser that he couldn’t pass by was, say, gang territorialism, the fact that someone who was clearly out there as part of the election process was so brutally attacked is not a good thing for our country. And the fact that the press immediately goes into “smear the victim” mode makes them complicit in political violence.
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2022/10/24/abcs-miami-affiliate-doxxes-rubio-canvasser-who-was-brutally-attacked-labels-him-white-supremacist-n648589
