A 7 year-old girl in Houston was shot in a drive-by. Jazmine Barnes was killed, and subsequently used by Martin Luther Cream to push his continued racial divide. While he did help lead police to the actual shooter, he was also pushing the narrative that it was a racist killing carried out by a white guy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/us/jazmine-barnes-arrest.html
but, Shaun King is not satisfied that the killer. wonder why?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When Jazmine Barnes was killed I pledged to find who killed her. We did that. The men who were arrested shot her. That I know. <br><br>But I’ve studied this case for nearly 60 hours. <br><br>And something’s not right. Key details are missing in the story. <br><br>I no longer trust the timeline.</p>— Shaun King (@shaunking) <a href="https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1082105686782369793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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probably because the initial sketch for the suspect was ...
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is the man witnesses say murdered 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes on 12/30 as her family drove on the E. Sam Houston Pkwy frontage road at Wallisville Road. Thin white man, 30's-40's, in a red pickup. Call 713-221-6000 or <a href="https://twitter.com/CrimeStopHOU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CrimeStopHOU</a> at 713-222-TIPS <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JusticeForJazmine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JusticeForJazmine</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hounews?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hounews</a> <a href="https://t.co/URR3w2Wxbm">pic.twitter.com/URR3w2Wxbm</a></p>— HCSOTexas (@HCSOTexas) <a href="https://twitter.com/HCSOTexas/status/1080959833392713728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Yet the article in The New York Times states:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/us/jazmine-barnes-arrest.html
The authorities have charged a suspect with capital murder in the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes, as an emotional case that moved the Houston community and evoked racial tensions nationwide took an unexpected turn on Sunday.
The authorities identified the suspect, Eric Black Jr., 20, and said he admitted to taking part in the Dec. 30 shooting.
Contrary to initial reports that the suspect was white, Mr. Black is black. It was a revelation that swiftly changed the narrative of a case that had drawn the attention of national civil rights activists amid speculation that the shooting was racially motivated.
The authorities believe that Mr. Black, along with an accomplice, thought they were shooting at someone else when they opened fire on Jazmine and her family, who were in a car on an early morning coffee run.
“This is most likely a case of mistaken identity,” Sheriff Ed Gonzalez of Harris County said at a news conference on Sunday.
But to civil rights activists, including Shaun King, who received the tip that led to the arrest, the race of the suspect did not upend the meaning of the case — for Jazmine’s family or for the country.
“We live in a time where somebody could do something like this based purely on hate or race,” he said on Sunday. “And that it turned out to not be the case I don’t think changes the devastating conclusion that people had thought something like that was possible.”
The tip named Mr. Black and another man, identified by prosecutors by the initials L.W. A lawyer for Jazmine’s family, Lee Merritt, named the second suspect as Larry Woodruffe, 24, who is also black. A man with that name was booked into the Harris County jail on Sunday on a drug possession charge.
At a hearing to set the bond amount in that case, prosecutors said that Mr. Woodruffe was also a suspect in a capital murder investigation, and a judge noted that Mr. Woodruffe could possibly face additional charges.
Sheriff Gonzalez acknowledged a second person was involved but would not comment on their identity. He said the second person had not been charged in Jazmine’s death as of Sunday afternoon, but said that charges could be filed. Lawyers for the men could not be immediately reached for comment on Sunday.
but, Shaun King is not satisfied that the killer. wonder why?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When Jazmine Barnes was killed I pledged to find who killed her. We did that. The men who were arrested shot her. That I know. <br><br>But I’ve studied this case for nearly 60 hours. <br><br>And something’s not right. Key details are missing in the story. <br><br>I no longer trust the timeline.</p>— Shaun King (@shaunking) <a href="https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1082105686782369793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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probably because the initial sketch for the suspect was ...
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is the man witnesses say murdered 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes on 12/30 as her family drove on the E. Sam Houston Pkwy frontage road at Wallisville Road. Thin white man, 30's-40's, in a red pickup. Call 713-221-6000 or <a href="https://twitter.com/CrimeStopHOU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CrimeStopHOU</a> at 713-222-TIPS <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JusticeForJazmine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JusticeForJazmine</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hounews?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hounews</a> <a href="https://t.co/URR3w2Wxbm">pic.twitter.com/URR3w2Wxbm</a></p>— HCSOTexas (@HCSOTexas) <a href="https://twitter.com/HCSOTexas/status/1080959833392713728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Yet the article in The New York Times states:
Research has shown that stress levels and conditions at the time of a crime can undercut the accuracy of eyewitness identification. The sheriff and the family said the sun had not yet risen when the shooting happened.
“Eyewitness testimony is the least reliable evidence you can have,” said Lori Brown, a criminologist at Meredith College in North Carolina, who said that people generally try to understand how a traumatic event could have happened by using what they know about the world. “Unfortunately,” she said, “we fill in the gaps.”