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insomniasexx  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Link to news conference announcing name of Michael Brown's Murderer.

With the release of the name by police, what do you think of anonymous naming the wrong guy yesterday?

Anon's "story" seems to be shifting over the past few hours (even around midnight PST last night) to "well, even if we are wrong at least the police have to release the name now!" I just wonder if they didn't do their due diligence (lol) because it was a win-win situation, or they did their due diligence and just fucked up anyways.

https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage2





user-inactivated  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think that they can go fuck themselves as usual.

am_Unition  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

am_Unition makes a generic joke about how none of them ever get laid

JakobVirgil  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Anon is what is what I think is strange is that Mike was stopped in connection to a robbery why didnt the popo say so earlier.

insomniasexx  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's the same question I've been asking. Have you seen the police reports? I may have been missing something but all the reports from the store robbery say "Brown" not the "attacker" or "robber". Am I missing something? I read them briefly on my phone this morning in bed. Super strange.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/Ferguson.pdf&chrome=true

JakobVirgil  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I am pretty sure they where made after the fact.

The Video bothers me the man in it is wearing sandals.

insomniasexx  ·  3756 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The report on the robbery was made after Brown was dead? That doesn't smell like a cover up at all!

JakobVirgil  ·  3756 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is something worse than a cover up was done to suggest that Mike was a person who deserved to die.

user-inactivated  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think they did their due diligence and I don't think it was because they realized it was a win-win situation. I think they were just being the toolbags that they are and wanted attention like they always do. They probably got some anonymous tip (ha!) that it was someone and went with it. Real journalists use multiple sources, they just used an anonymous one and accepted it as truth and pushed it out there because they can.

bioemerl  ·  3756 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Reddit! we found him!

There is a reason you shouldn't trust non-official sources, or anonymous sources.

user-inactivated  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  
ixnar  ·  3754 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My pantaloons remain undisturbed

am_Unition  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wait, so was "Jimmy Rustle" and this pastebin text the official release from Anonymous? Or an Anonymous impersonator? Who remains anonymous?

And that's the damn problem with anonymity...

I found that pastebin hilarious, I'm sorry to say. Distasteful, yes, but pretty solid trolling.

user-inactivated  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This was released after the initial one, which named an actual person, but the wrong actual person. It is as official as anything, Anonymous being the set of all people who use the name and all. It's either not possible to be an Anonymous impersonator, or they're all Anonymous impersonators.

am_Unition  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ahh, OK, thanks for clearing that up.

I would have been surprised if the name "Jimmy Rustle" whooshed over insomniasexx's head.

insomniasexx  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah that one is NOT the release I read! I can be dense but not that dense.

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/226454/anonymous-releases-identity-of-ferguson-officer-who-shot-michael-brown/

ghostoffuffle  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Jimmy Rustle?" Seriously? That had to be a joke, right?

insomniasexx  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  
ghostoffuffle  ·  3756 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Okay, so it was a joke.

user-inactivated  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, but that doesn't stop people from falling for it. I get the impression many of the people involved in OpFerguson are not from the Internet.