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Bombs detonated at Boston Marathon finish line
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Right, then why'd they put these photos out?
OriginofHysteria
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Yes but then you get to the point where personal information gets posted and then they wind up not being the ones. Remember the Ryan Lanza incident?
indigo-cyclops
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Profiling at it's finest...
Seriously, it always is going to come back to that until we have the FACTS. This kid is probably terrified.
Pretty fucking scary. No offence Americans, I know you have your reasons, but shit like this is why I'd never live in America lol. One of the guys just posted on his FB that he's on his way to the courts to prove to them he's innocent and has nothing to do with the bombing.
Guess from his posts people have already threatened or accused him.
OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather
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The problem isn't whether or not police are looking into these guys. The problem is that the internet has already named them as the guilty party with absolutely zero evidence and called for vigilante action against them. If these guys are truly innocent and some imbecile sees them without knowing and he attacks them, we've got a whole other problem on our hands, especially if the vigilante ends up killing one of them.
Well, as I've been trying to argue all along, the news hasn't given us anything to link these photos to the video the FBI has. They could be entirely unrelated leads
Ether_Snake
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Yeah screw this "you don goofed now internets". Did people pay attention? Law enforcement sources have been telling journalists about those two, and the news reported on them as a result, showing photos, etc., on TV.
You either have to accept that those law enforcement folks are amateurish, or the news people are making up their sources.
Heck, if anything, the internet has cleared their names before the news did.
Phonomezer
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I got the impression that was a poster some jackass on his FB put together?
But yeah, that's who I was referring to
I think you're going a little far considering I've seen plenty of 4chan photos focusing on others including whites with backpacks. If anything its profiling people with backpacks. Heck one photo even circled a girls butt and said "da bomb".
To be honest, it'll only clear their names and image a bit. The pics and FB details strongly argue their innocence if anything. Which I'm sure they could do with right now.
Ok, I thought they received the photos from the FBI too. Went to a concert and missed a bit.
yes the monolithic entity known as the internet judged them to be guilty
where are you getting this from?
It'll also get the thread locked.
Ether_Snake
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But they have been constantly describing (and in some cases showing) those photos, claiming they did so based on the info received from their law enforcement forces (which probably = reddit/4chan).
Sad day in US journalism.
OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather
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They did, but they haven't said the people in the photo match the person allegedly in the video. They implied it heavily though, by saying these guys are prime suspects etc. If there is some link between the two, they haven't told us outright what it is. I personally think the media is just mixing up the two stories
OriginofHysteria
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Just stop. You have already proven yourself to be an unreliable source of information with your crazy speculation. You should not be encouraging people to play this game of telephone. How about suggesting some patience?
Broder Salsa
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and how many times have we already seen the news fail with this? At this point it's almost peoples own fault for believing the shit they say to try and be the first with the news.
User 100115
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The Where's Waldo bomber hunter threads on Reddit are talking about how they keep getting messages from the media and actually posted about the media just backing off and letting them speculate. Even straight up accusing the media of just jumping on anything they post as 'evidence'. I think they've since made the thread private.
indigo-cyclops
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Any suspects people were legitimately questioning have all been "brown". There was one white guy, but most moved on from him as soon as these guys were caught in a bunch of pictures.
All my point is, is this AR15 forum is especially wacky, now saying things like "oh what if it's a fake Facebook?". Ridiculous.
Demoncarnotaur
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I honestly doubt the FBI gave them this info. If they did, OK, Post it. But I bet their sources fot the pics from the internet. Fucking CNN is messing up big time. =/
Oh, they have their facebook? Thats wonderful.. poor people are gonna be harassed to hell and back. I wish the press conference would happen to put an end to some of this.
Devolution
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People are posting facebooks and shit? Come on. Did you learn fucking nothing from what happened to Ryan Lanza?
OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather
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That's every god damned day, unfortunately.
Well then I hope the FBI has their shit together. Wouldn't be the first time they didn't but if they have video and are still after these 2, hopefully they have a reason better than "because 4chan"
I'm not saying the FBI doesn't have their shit together (how would I know), I'm saying there are two stories coming out of the FBI today and I think the media is merging them together. It's not strange for the FBI to follow up on multiple leads
OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather
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Of course not. People love a good old fashioned witch hunt.
faceless007
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People who want to play Internet detective never learn.
PotatoeMasher
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To be fair, even assuming one or both is innocent you better believe the FBI will want to talk to them to see if they saw anything.
I love that they suspected the fucking law enforcement guy because "#2. brown". Sigh.
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White beard guy still seems off to me, even if that fake poster is idiotic.
Kinky John
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Ha! The idiots on that forum are pissed because one of the members posted a link to the AR15 thread on the guy's Facebook.
Wankers.
Wankers.
Ether_Snake
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It's like in the other thread about the plant, news reported 60 people dead, wtf., it's not true at all, and it went all over the place for a moment.
They described them though in detail.
Devolution
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freenudemacusers
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gg internet columbos
Broder Salsa
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Some truly believe FBI cause they clearly haven't come any closer to anything than F5'ing 4chan and reddit all day, which is kind of funny in a ridiculous way.
Devolution
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These people are delusional, the FBI has access to tons of resources and information we don't. Fucking idiots are just getting mobs directed at what are probably innocent people.
I think people get some kind of feeling that they're making sense out of a confusing issue. Like, the idea of someone setting off bombs at the Boston Marathon is, when you think about it, totally terrifying. Being able to sift through evidence and make some conclusions feels like you're getting somewhere, like you're piecing things together and making sense of them.
I totally understand that. Of course, the problem is that while it might be satisfying and interesting, it's not actually helpful and it can be really harmful when it results in fingers pointed at innocent people.
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