Our execrable media

[George K]

"Abraham Lincoln dies during theater performance."

[LuFins Dad]

Sorry, I missed this when I started the hate crimes thread.

[Jolly]

Well, at least it wasn't a Magat Bitch...

[George K]

I can’t find the report now but the woman who covered the victim walked away and smiled.

The cut that part out.

[George K]

@George-K said in Our execrable media:

I can’t find the report now but the woman who covered the victim walked away and smiled.

[LuFins Dad]

Meh, I’m not going judge one partial instant without seeing and hearing everything up to that moment. There seems to be different accounts as to whether he was hit by a megaphone or was pushed and fell.

[Jolly]

[Doctor Phibes]

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in Our execrable media:

There seems to be different accounts as to whether he was hit by a megaphone or was pushed and fell.

http://nixle.us/ETJRK

Upon arrival, responding deputies located Kessler, who was suffering from a head injury. Witness accounts indicated that Kessler was involved in a physical altercation with counter-protestor(s). During the altercation, Kessler fell backwards and struck his head on the ground. Kessler was transported to an area hospital for advanced medical treatment. On November 6, 2023, Kessler succumbed to his injuries.

An autopsy was performed on November 6th and the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be blunt force head injury and the manner of death homicide.

I suppose it's possible that he was pushed backward and got the "blunt force trauma" that way. Perhaps he was on anticoagulants...

[George K]

[George K]

[George K]

CNN's gotta CNN:

[George K]

@George-K said in Our execrable media:

CNN's gotta CNN:

https://www.kcci.com/article/man-charged-in-death-of-jewish-protester/60814364

Prosecutors allege Loay Alnaji hit the 69-year-old protester, Paul Kessler, with a megaphone before Kessler fell and struck his head on the pavement of a street corner in Thousand Oaks, California, in November, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said in a release.

Kessler, who was demonstrating in support of Israel, later died at a hospital. Medical examiners determined he died from blunt force trauma caused by the blow from the megaphone and his fall, prosecutors said.

Alnaji is facing involuntary manslaughter and battery charges after an investigation police say was complicated by conflicting statements from pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian witnesses. He has pleaded not guilty, the district attorney’s office said last year.

[Mik]

How about CAUSING him to fall, eh? What say we tell it like it is?

[George K]

@Mik said in Our execrable media:

How about CAUSING him to fall, eh? What say we tell it like it is?

That's what the 2nd paragraph in my quote says.

[Mik]

Not exactly. It still separates the blow from the fall.

"hit the 69-year-old protester, Paul Kessler, with a megaphone before Kessler fell"

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in Our execrable media:

Not exactly. It still separates the blow from the fall.

"hit the 69-year-old protester, Paul Kessler, with a megaphone before Kessler fell"

In all fairness the paragraph begins “prosecutor allege”. In other words, it’s not the journalist making that claim, it’s the lawyers s.

[LuFins Dad]

It’s shit either way

[George K]

https://keyt.com/news/ventura-county/2024/05/15/moorpark-man-set-to-face-charges-in-connection-with-november-2023-death-of-paul-kessler/

Ventura County Medical Examiner Dr. Othon Mena testified that Kessler died from blunt force trauma caused by the flow from the megaphone and fall to the pavement after stated the Ventura County District Attorney's Office.

[blondie]

The laughing paediatrician needs her butt hauled before her employer and her local professional association pronto. The optics there with that video, the signage, with her participating there at that protest (screw freedom of speech on both sides of it), the ethics of it, is beyond disgusting to me.