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Ideas for profiling a white-nationalist terrorist.
Do NOT get quotes fr/neighbors in his segregated zip code.
DO speak to people who encountered him in other zip codes & online.
Words like “nice,” “from a nice family” & “quiet” add nothing, as they’re proxy words for white.
Do NOT get quotes fr/neighbors in his segregated zip code.
DO speak to people who encountered him in other zip codes & online.
Words like “nice,” “from a nice family” & “quiet” add nothing, as they’re proxy words for white.
My neighbor is a white cop who flies Trump flags & describes herself as “tired of Black Lives Matter.”
She has guns, ATVs & CPS issues with her teen daughter, whom she hit, but also has two cute toddlers & a cute dog.
When I run into her on the street, she is very “nice.”
She has guns, ATVs & CPS issues with her teen daughter, whom she hit, but also has two cute toddlers & a cute dog.
When I run into her on the street, she is very “nice.”
So “Anthony Warner is maybe best described as “a reclusive felon with a drug history whose mother recently accused him of grand larceny.”
Reporters often get things wrong because they trust live people over online data. The most astonishing when I was at the NYT: we trusted 2 Iraqi officials to give Saddam Hussein’s last words instead of using the cellphone video made of the event. Surprise: the officials lied.
Suicide bomber’s golf coach from 50y ago gets a quote saying he was disciplined & great.
But no one looks at his online life except to say he’s not on social media w/his own name. Solution: don’t waste time w/golf instructor & get at least the Catfish crew to find Warner online
But no one looks at his online life except to say he’s not on social media w/his own name. Solution: don’t waste time w/golf instructor & get at least the Catfish crew to find Warner online
