One of my pet peeves is reporters using terms like "arrested/ convicted for pedophilia."
So a fellow activist contacted this reporter after he posted the following in a news article:
https://fox40.com/2019/06/17/police-departments-doctored-photo-of-alleged-sex-offender-leads-to-new-policy/
"In the original photograph, 36-year-old **** happened to be wearing a T-shirt with a campaign logo of a man running for Congress. At the time, **** was being arrested for pedophilia."
At least Joe Khalil eventually updated the page to remove the offensive term, and I would have left it at that, but then the reporter insisted on defending his use of the term and was offended by the notion that the term is offensive and improperly used. Thus, he gets recognition on this blog.
https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1140776359351816192
2 things. First, the idiot reporter even got the charges wrong in the exchange (the guy was not arrested for lewd conduct. He was arrested for contacting and arranging to meet a minor - probably one of those stings).
ReplyDeleteSecond, his definition of pedophilia is wrong. Pedophilia is an actual mental disorder where the person is exclusively or primarily sexually attracted to PREPUBESCENT children. Why does everyone overlook prepubescence when accusing someone of pedophilia?
https://www.hjnews.com/news/crime_courts/local-teen-charged-with-homicide-by-assault-in-connection-to/article_622034b1-3b2e-588e-8d76-071e898e4ef2.html
ReplyDeleteUpdate a 17 Year old has been charged with Homicide for killing Michael Fife a person he accused of being a rapist and killed him in the process. . Its crazy a few years ago Once Fallen mentioned that people convicted of murder and rape are least likely to reoffend compared to people convicted of petty crimes who have the highest recidivisim rates.
https://www.postregister.com/news/crime_courts/utah-teen-charged-with-homicide-by-assault-in-connection-to/article_a743b70e-b646-5bd6-8d00-fa3f2a93c256.html
Also in the issue the majority of vigilante killings are mainly committed by men the crazy thing about vigilante justice against offenders is that these killings are never done by people in the #metoo movement. These killing of offenders are done by NRA type people or men who are trying to play the "Blame the Hero" should be illegal and sex offender killings should be legal. These things tend to have origins in the Irish Republican Army and the private army Death Squads as covers for tribal disputes.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.hjnews.com/news/crime_courts/police-documents-lend-greater-detail-to-incident-that-killed-homeless/article_e221e5f9-d10d-5051-93cc-abafa3a3da81.html
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Generally speaking, police reports are cold, procedural documents, filled with details and observations. But sometimes, if you look closely, a story emerges in a way that redefines an event.
Such is the case in Logan City police reports related to the April 27 death of a Logan man after what appeared to be a simple assault.
The story within the corresponding police reports naturally includes the victim, 62-year-old Michael Fife, but also includes a story of a young girl whose life may have been shaped by a prior trauma and her overprotective older brother who, it seems, thought he was being helpful.
The details were revealed bit by bit over the span of a week as police conducted interviews with everyone involved, including Fife, still conscious when police visited him in the emergency room at Logan Regional Hospital.
“Michael did not know who hit him, or why they hit him,” the officer wrote in the report. “Michael stated he remembered being at a bus station but he did not know where he was when he got hit. Michael stated he did not want to worry about finding out who hit him and he did not want to press charges.”
That might have been the end if it hadn’t been for two other phone calls to police later that evening, one from a Logan father who reportedly told police that his son had information about an assault that occurred earlier that day.
An officer met the family at Merlin Olsen Park, and as the sun went down, he heard from a teen girl who said Fife groped her on the bus, and from her brother who told police that he was upset and he felt like he needed to do something.
Throughout their interactions with police, multiple family members, including the girl herself, said she is dealing with anxiety and other fallout from traumatic abuse in her past, but they declined to share specifics, according to the police reports.
It was after the Merlin Park meeting with the two juveniles and their parents that a nurse from McKay Dee Hospital called police to let them know that Fife had been transported to the Ogden hospital with a fractured skull and a brain bleed.