Radio, TV station journalists attacked in Detroit

[struggle4progress]

Hasan Dudar, Detroit Free Press
Published 11:13 a.m. ET Aug. 2, 2018
Updated 2:09 p.m. ET Aug. 2, 2018

... At about 6 a.m. ET, Campbell was in the middle of a live report on a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian when a suspect came up to the station's car and struck the windshield and driver’s-side window with a metal baton, WWJ reported.

"My truck just got hit by a bat, and I'm sorry, guys, I've gotta go," Campbell said while reporting live ...

The man then approached Harden and Krotche again, according to the WXYZ report. He smashed the windshield and damaged the side mirror of their live-news truck ...

"And then he apparently, just, something angered him, he turned around and attacked the news truck," Campbell said. He also apparently smashed other vehicles as he walked away ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/02/journalists-attacked-assignment-detroit/888635002/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

1. What A Society We Live In

"And then he apparently, just, something angered him, he turned around and attacked the news truck,"

Sounds so matter of fact.

[workinclasszero]

2. Trump told his cult the free press is the enemy

Link to tweet

The results are beginning to fire up.

[raccoon]

3. Thanks, Dotard. This is due to his stupid remarks about the press. nt

[cwydro]

6. I'm not jumping to conclusions quite yet.

This board was all over the attack on the 92 year old Mexican man.

“A Trumper!” “Deplorables!”

Until it turned out it was a black woman with a criminal record.

Then the thread died. Quietly, as all the usual suspects slunk away. o

[3Hotdogs]

4. --- doesn't sound like Trumpism. He smashed other vehicles that had no connection to news.

[struggle4progress]

9. Motives are notoriously difficult to separate from context

The philosopher Moritz Schlick, leader of the logical-positivists' Vienna Circle, was shot and killed in June 1936 by a former philosophy doctoral student who had been diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic. The student said Schlick's philosophy had damaged him morally or that he was jealous of a certain woman with whom he had not formed a relationship; meanwhile, the fascist press applauded the murder, claiming Schlick was Jewish; and after the 1938 Anschluss, the Nazis released the murderer from prison

It is the context here that concerns me, independent of the actual mind of the attacker

[dalton99a]

5. "The suspect previously had interrupted Harden while she was reporting live"

He clearly had a beef with the press

[cwydro]

7. Or maybe not.

The west side of Detroit does not strike me as a tRump stronghold.

[MarcA]

8. You make a good point. Some criminals are just losers.

Then some may do their bad behavior in the name of Trump, ISIS or
whatever to try and excuse their criminal behavior.