AP Reporter’s Reax to Zimmerman Verdict: ‘So We Can All Kill Teenagers Now? Just Checking’
An ever so objective Associated Press reporter didn’t handle a Florida jury’s acquittal of George Zimmerman too well tonight.
Cristina Silva took the verdict to mean it’s open season on teenagers (HT Breitbart):
The tweet was pulled, and now she says she was joking:
Horse manure.
The fact that Silva appears to be based overseas is hardly exculpatory.
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.
A joke? Yeah, let’s be flippant about someone having to kill someone else in self defense and then being put through a very public trial and character assassination.
If she’s joking, that’s almost as bad as if she was serious.
Comment by zf — July 14, 2013 @ 7:26 am
Clarification, please: Ms. Silva was a temporary AP staffer who hasn’t worked for AP lately. Thanks. — Paul Colford, AP Media Relations
Comment by Paul Colford — July 14, 2013 @ 8:50 am
“So we can all kill teenagers now? Just checking”
Some Journalists really need to go back to Journalism school.
That Tweet is the type of biased comment that one would expect from a partisan teenager.
Maybe Ms Silva really needs to decide if she is signed up to the US judicial process and the sacrosanctity of juries or not?
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Maybe a better Tweet would have been to say:
Maybe you should reconsider assaulting the neighborhood watch, they might be armed.
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An object lesson that should be applied in Chicago, arm the citizens and watch the hoods scatter back to the dark corners where they belong.
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Those who are wiling to sacrifice their rights for security deserve neither.
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The final indignity to Martin Luther King occurred, the Black Leadership engaged in self parody by elevating Travyon Martin, the drug pusher to sainthood…St. Skittles.
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Liberals, Democrats and Blacks have drunk their fill of Lean as a new form of Koolaide. (Skittles, Arizona Iced Tea, Robitussin = ‘Drank’ Or ‘Lean’)
Comment by dscott — July 14, 2013 @ 4:55 pm