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    Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the SnarkLauren Evans
    6/29/16 11:23pm

    I can see why someone might be upset with the reporter, but there’s a helluva lot of better ways to handle things than using slurs.

    But then again I'm not an idiot.

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      SarsAttacksAri Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark
      6/29/16 11:29pm

      But what did the reporter do?

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      weebleswobbleSarsAttacks
      6/29/16 11:33pm

      In the throes of grief, seeing someone casually reporting on your dead child would probably be enough. She’s a racist asshole and should be charged for threatening and laying hands on them, but I can see why the press being there would set off a powder keg.

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    DrWhoSoccerStarLauren Evans
    6/29/16 11:18pm

    Between this and the decapitation story I have had way too many conflicting emotions for the day. At first I thought I was going to feel bad for the reporter, then when I realized why the mother acted the way she did I completely hated the reporter.

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      TzaDrWhoSoccerStar
      6/29/16 11:21pm

      Why hate the reporter? She did nothing wrong and remained totally calm while being hugely insulted and assaulted.

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      DrWhoSoccerStarTza
      6/29/16 11:27pm

      She was reporting on the woman’s child, her child that just died.

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    DeebauchLauren Evans
    6/30/16 1:03am

    A lot of commenters are really missing the point that the mothers of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin*, Eric Garner, Mike Brown, and on and on and on managed not to attack any reporters even when they began flocking to report on their children’s deaths. There is another factor besides grief here, and it’s called whiteness. Some of you need to sit in the discomfort of thinking about why you are so quick to not only empathize with a racist attacker, but to say that the black woman doing her job has any responsibility for this attack.
    *I know Trayvon wasn’t killed by actual police. If you want to reply just to make that point, drink some water and consider your life choices instead.

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      normzzzzDeebauch
      6/30/16 1:06am

      But they “don’t see color,” remember? We’re all “the same.” What a load of bullshit.

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      ARayDeebauch
      6/30/16 2:26am

      Say that!

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    SipowitzLauren Evans
    6/29/16 11:30pm
    GIF
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      HerRoyalRednessSipowitz
      6/30/16 4:01am
      GIF
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      DorthyDandridgeEyesHerRoyalRedness
      6/30/16 11:41am

      Still using Hoeclin gifs I see

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    LibraryanneagainLauren Evans
    6/29/16 11:17pm

    I’m sure I’d be distraught if a family member had been shot. I might be angry at reporters calmly treating my anguish as a “story.” I’m certain I wouldn’t hurl slurs.

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      ARayLibraryanneagain
      6/29/16 11:24pm

      So we’ll just empathize right over that racist and violent part, eh?

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      Non Sleeping GiantLibraryanneagain
      6/29/16 11:28pm

      Absolutely nothing to do with the reporter. They didn’t go knocking on her door bothering her. Betcha this would never happen to the next cop she sees, although they were directly involved. Grief doesn’t give you the right to be an asshole to random people because your family member insisted on being shot.

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    mathildadiehlLauren Evans
    6/29/16 11:20pm

    I understand that her son was dead and obviously she was grieving, and people often don’t like to see reporters at the scenes of tragedy, feeling like they’re vultures. I’ve actually held back a screaming friend when reporters showed up after our friends died.

    BUT.

    You still don’t shout racial slurs, even in a tense and emotional situation, unless you’ve been thinking them in situations where you kept your cool. So she’s grieving and I sympathize, but she’s still a racist asshole.

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      Tzamathildadiehl
      6/29/16 11:22pm

      You also don’t physically assault random people.

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      mathildadiehlTza
      6/29/16 11:27pm

      Agreed. Like I said, I’ve been in a somewhat similar situation before, but it certainly didn’t get this ugly—probably because my friend wasn’t the type to shout racial slurs at someone or try to physically attack them, even while emotional and grieving. I truly do understand that people get angry when they see someone nosing around in their pain, but it’s no excuse for this kind of behavior.

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    DeebauchLauren Evans
    6/30/16 6:21am

    Howmany people viewing, and especially commenting on this post have ever had someone come at them like this in the workplace? Knowing that you can’t do anything to defend yourself because your job would be jeopardized, not to mention you would attract the attention of already shook up police? And as if that’s not bad enough, the most common reaction from people who see what happened to you is that they can see/understand your attackers point of view. Talking about grief doesn’t put you on some higher level of compassion, it does the exact opposite. People talking about how this racist must feel don’t spend a second thinking about how this reporter actually felt. That is a failure of empathy, period.

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      armyvet12Deebauch
      6/30/16 6:26am

      Thank you!! It matters which set of shoes we can see ourselves in- or even which set of shoes we *cannot* see ourselves in.

      Way too many people here are saying “if I was in that situation” and only think about the situation the racist lady created, and not the one the reporter had to endure.

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      acornDeebauch
      6/30/16 7:02am

      Yes, and this is a major problem that too many people in our culture have. Too many people think that their situation, their feelings or their beliefs are some kind of pass for mistreating other people. Everyone has hard shit to deal with, yours doesn’t give you the right to physically threaten anyone else or make it impossible to just do their job or go about their day. And of course it’s much worse for minorities and the further someone is from being a straight, white male. Everyone else going down the line is supposed to just fall in line, brace themselves and take it. Fucked up shit.

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    chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfishLauren Evans
    6/29/16 11:25pm

    but suffice to say Victor maintained a superhuman degree of poise during the ordeal.

    Understatement. She got this frozen, fixed taut smile, like “crazy racist lady is coming for me, keep the movements to a minimum, don’t run, or is that bears? I forget, but I’m standing my ground.”

    Nice work, Ms. Victor.

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      OoohWeeechritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
      6/29/16 11:35pm

      She kind of looks like bitch I will destroy you but this is on tape so imma just step back and let you do your thing crazy.

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      chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfishOoohWeee
      6/29/16 11:42pm

      She seems to keep glancing at the cameraman, like “You’re getting this, right?”

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    ILikeThunderstormsLauren Evans
    6/30/16 1:32am

    No excuse for hurling racial slurs at this reporter or approaching her or the camera person in that threatening way. Journalists doing their job are journalists doing their job...this woman needs to get a lawyer and sue if she feels like the police used unnecessary force, like everyone else does, not attack these people doing their jobs reporting on it.

    You notice that even in cases when their kids were straight-up murdered by the police for no fucking reason (Tamir, etc.), you don’t see black parents going up to reporters and abusing them. Grief is no excuse for genuine slurs and threats of violence against people. These journalists did not kill her son, the police did.

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      OurDaisyILikeThunderstorms
      6/30/16 8:35am

      That’s because, sad to say, we know better. We know that we’re likely going to end up being arrested and that this will just be one more thing used against us in the court of public opinion. Look at her, no wonder her son got killed.

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      Honey Bee's Roundhouse KickILikeThunderstorms
      6/30/16 7:27pm

      That’s not even going into the difference in treatment of the dead child. This man was pointing a gun for 20 minutes before the police shot him. Twenty minutes. Tamir Rice was shot in less than two minutes. Her son could have saved his own life by putting the gun down a “nicety” not offered to a 12-year-old boy but people are bending over backwards to make excuses for the racist mother of the man who spend 20 minutes menacing the police before he was shot.

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    Mrs. BeetonLauren Evans
    6/29/16 11:30pm

    Poor Victor. I wonder if she was thinking about Alison Parker and Adam Ward, who were shot to death doing their jobs as local reporters less than a year ago.

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      librarianofcatsMrs. Beeton
      6/29/16 11:35pm

      Yea she looks scared and angry all at the same time. I was so surprised that she and her cameraman didn’t try do anything except to tell the lady to stop and that they are calling the police.

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      Nina LemoneMrs. Beeton
      6/30/16 8:59am

      I wonder if she was also thinking about Rhonda Lee, who got fired for defending her blackness.

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