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As intriguing as this story is, It does bring back reflections of the Charles Stuart incident where he murdered his wife and stoked the fires of racism across the nation by claiming a Black man did it.My understanding is the guy in the video went straight to law enforcement as a witness before the video was released to the public.
Yes, he could be lying..but they have him.
They cannot ignore his account, so they are attempting to follow up on it.
The only folks who see racism in this are the people who seem to see racism everywhere. Chip, meet shoulder.
But if that false indictment of Black males wasn’t enough, Susan Smith drove the indictment home when she said a Black man had jumped into her car and drove off with her two pre-adolescent boys. It sounded like something Blacks would do right? WRONG… she had murdered her own children by intentionally driving her car into a lake and letting them drown!
How many times has that scenario been repeated? One can only guess. However, we do know that false accusations of rape by White women against Black men were instrumental in the utter destruction by enraged White men of two prosperous Black towns in the early 20th Century.
Pondering the invidious tradition that still haunts us, the op is on point
I don't understand your points. The suspect was on video, and was IDed by those in the bar as being with her, to try and make this a Susan Smith or Stuart incident seems to be reaching very far.
I think what he saying is that the history of whites rushing to punish Black men over transgressing on the virtue of the white woman in this country makes the OP valid at the time of its writing.
The cops are always the hardest on the last person to see the disappeared alive. I don't know if it is a case of black men/white women though.
I really don't see rushing here either TBH. To me one needs to take in the entire case of the missing women from the same place. They have been looking for a man since 2009 who terribly resembles the guy who is a POI in this case. Can I see the cops hot on his tail given that info and the fact he was the last man with her. Yes.
With that said, I get what you are saying, I just don't see it being a point of contention in this case.