Glenn Greenwald: Usaama Rahim was a 'victim,' not a criminal
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026775436Really? A victim. I think not.
geek tragedy (46,523 posts)
Glenn Greenwald: Usaama Rahim was a 'victim,' not a criminal
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/03/media-trash-character-police-shooting-victim-reporting-anonymous-smears/
Even the police’s version of events, if believed, raises all sorts of questions. They say Rahim was under “24-hour surveillance†by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, and were monitoring him for at least two years. When they approached him, they had no arrest or search warrant, but instead simply wanted to question him. When they did so, he pulled out his knife, and when he refused to put it away and walked toward them, they shot and killed him.
There are numerous questions raised by all of this. If Rahim was so dangerous, why didn’t the constant surveillance result in any charges? If — as the media spent all day claiming — he was on the verge of executing a horrific terror attack, why didn’t law enforcement agents have an arrest warrant or even search warrant? What was their intention in approaching him this way? Were they wearing uniforms, and — supposedly believing he was an ISIS operative eager to kill police — did they do anything to make him feel threatened?
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Whatever the truth about the shooting itself turns out to be, think about what happened here. A black Muslim man charged with no crime was standing at a bus stop when approached by the FBI and BPD, who had no warrant to arrest him. Within minutes, he was dead. And literally within hours, he was universally vilified in the American media — with zero evidence — as an ISIS-inspired terrorist in the midst of a plot potentially involving multiple unnamed “others,†all based on nothing more than police accusations.
You see, the only bad guys in a confrontation with a terrorist are (1) those who do something to stop the terrorist and (2) those who describe the terrorist as a terrorist.
And of course, stopping terrorists is totally racist.
You can read all about this poor, sweet innocent of state-sanctioned murder here:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/images/06/03/david.wright.complaint.pdf
How is stopping terrorists racist???????????
PETA, ALF, ELF, Greenpeace, Al Qaeda, ISIS, and any radical Leftist/Islamist group have Whites.
Luminous Animal (23,538 posts)
1. No. He not say he was not a criminal. Somehow you missed this
The point here is not that the police claims are untrue. The point is that nobody knows if they are true or not. Yet they were aggressively and uncritically amplified by an always pro-police media, resulting in the vilification of the dead victim as an ISIS-linked terror operative within hours after his death. Precisely as intended, that, in turn, precluded any rational discussion of whether the killing was justified.
Pro-police media???????
The leftist media is anti-police.
geek tragedy (46,523 posts)
10. Greenwald stated multiple times that
the media lied about the dead terrorist.
He used the word 'smear.'
What was defamatory in the reporting?
Or is Greenwald too stupid to know what a 'smear' means in American English?
Contradicting yourself?
geek tragedy (46,523 posts)
5. Greenwald said he was a 'victim.'
That is a word used for people who are wrongfully treated of an illegal act.
Greenwald has a long history of such sympathies for Islamist terrorists and radicals. He practically nominated Al awlaki for the Nobel peace prize.
#alqaedalivesmatter
This one is a potential DOTY.
DisgustipatedinCA (8,983 posts)
37. It's a good article. Greenwald does a nice job of pointing out
...just how lemming-like our media is.
Typical DUmmy thinks the media is not left enough.
