The Other McCain spreads some truth.<\/p>\n
When 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes was killed in a drive-by shooting in Houston Dec. 30, the story \u201ccaptured nationwide attention,\u201d because Jazmine\u2019s family claimed that the shooter was a white man:<\/p>\n
The teen and her mother described the suspect as a white man with blue eyes, a thin build and no beard. They say he \u201clooked sick\u201d with sunken cheekbones and a pale face with a \u201cfive o\u2019clock shadow.\u201d He was wearing a black hoodie.<\/p>\n
CNN jumped on the story \u2014 RAAAAACISM!<\/em> \u2014 and the usual crew of #BlackLivesMatter hate-hustlers leaped into action, raising money and sending out incendiary tweets. Unfortunately for the purveyors of this narrative, it was false. The white man in the red truck that Jazmine\u2019s family had seen wasn\u2019t the shooter, but an innocent guy who was himself caught in the line of fire. The actual perpetrators were driving a KIA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And black. So the story has suddenly disappeared from the national news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Other McCain spreads some truth. When 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes was killed in a drive-by shooting in Houston Dec. 30, the story \u201ccaptured nationwide attention,\u201d because Jazmine\u2019s family claimed that the shooter was a white man: The teen and her mother described the suspect as a white man with blue eyes, a thin build and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181350,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181349\/revisions\/181350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}