So what happens when police lie? (Philly train rape story)

[BaggerofTea]

Go read the thread about it and the comments


The coli such hypocrites

That thread is disgusting and this trash ass "human" @Rell Lauren was leading the charge

 

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How the False Story of Kitty Genovese’s Murder Went Viral

None of this would have taken place if it hadn’t been for a chance meeting between A. M. Rosenthal, the Times’s metro editor, and then-police chief Michael Murphy. As Nicholas Lemann wrote in The New Yorker in 2014, ten days after Genovese’s murder, which had initially gotten only a brief squib in the Times during a year which saw 636 murders in New York, the two had lunch. “Murphy spent most of the lunch talking about how worried he was that the civil-rights movement, which was at its peak, would set off racial violence in New York,” wrote Lemann, but the conversation eventually shifted, through happenstance, to the recent murder of a woman named Kitty Genovese. Murphy told Rosenthal there had been 38 eyewitnesses: “Over a grisly half hour of stabbing and screaming, Murphy said, none of them had called the police. Rosenthal assigned a reporter named Martin Gansberg to pursue the story from that angle.”


As a result of Gansberg’s subsequent, less-than-skeptical article — and, perhaps as important, a follow-up story which ran the next day in which “a procession of experts offered explanations of what had happened, or said that it was inexplicable” — the narrative took hold and the case eventually found its way into psychology textbooks. As Lemann writes, “Stories like that of the silent witnesses to Genovese’s murder represent the real danger zone in journalism, because they blend the power of instinct — which is about whether something feels true, not about whether it is true — with the respectable sheen of social science.”

 

[King]

How the False Story of Kitty Genovese’s Murder Went Viral

Crazy I was about to post this exact article.

I knew the original story was BS because the bystander effect is fake.

It isn’t a real theory or phenomenon. And the “studies” it’s based on like this incident in particular were falsified.

If anything, these clout chasing ass journalists and fringe scientists created the phenomenon because most people now believe it’s a real thing. This absolving them of the responsibility and giving them an easy out.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

Yep, apparently there was only like two witnesses to the rape and only one was recording but they did so after calling the police to use as evidence.
Everybody else was in and out the train without noticing what was going on.

i felt like there had to be more to this. As far as cops lying this country will learn too late about giving cops the benefit of the doubt. Way too late. The reason that is is because white folks view cops as the last line of defense keeping black folks from coming after them. That's legit how they feel. That's why Blue Lives Matter is so important to a lot of white folks. Any bad shyt they do even if it is bad shyt they did to them personally or someone they knew? It doesn't matter because they are some kind of force field protecting them from the big bad liberals.

90% of Right Wing babble is textbook projection.

 

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