Reuters deletes offensive ('attended church') tweet about Atlanta shooting suspect

[bigtree]

Reuters @Reuters
CLARIFICATION: We deleted a tweet containing an inappropriate headline about the Georgia shooting suspect. We regret the error.
8:09 PM · Mar 17, 2021

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(my response to that tweet was an expletive)

[dalton99a]

1. A white, Christian man. There should be prayer vigils for him

[Hamlette]

2. why is that offensive?

we should know that Christians assholes can be part of the problem.

(Sorry, just been reading about how many evangelicals love Qanon.)

[PoliticAverse]

3. So you found 'attended church' offensive because you think that means they were implying

he was a good person?

[stillcool]

4. obviously, Reuters did...

maybe ask them?

[PoliticAverse]

5. They're not here so I'm asking the person here who found it offensive. I read 'attended church'...

as a neutral fact like 'attended college' or 'was from the Atlanta area' not implying anything about the person being necessarily good or bad.

[stillcool]

15. Describing someone who has murdered 8 people...

as a church-going, local boy surely is not a 'neutral fact'. Date of Birth, Address, those are 'neutral facts'. You will never see a young black man who goes to church, and is local described in the same manner after murdering 8 people. Unless those people are black. I don't find it "offensive", I find it appalling that any journalist would write that crap, but I don't care enough to be offended

Reuters @Reuters
CLARIFICATION: We deleted a tweet containing an inappropriate headline about the Georgia shooting suspect. We regret the error.
8:09 PM · Mar 17, 2021

[uponit7771]

19. This is what they say about white people when they want to sympathize with them, if

.... It's a 12 year old black boy who was murdered by cops then it's always something bad like kid ate too much candy or some other b*******

The headline is typical yellow journalism racist ass whitewashing a criminal and it's typical and it needs to stop

[Aristus]

20. We know that Trayvon Martin was in detention once.

And that he once, maybe, possibly, may have had a sniff of marijuana.

We never heard if he went to church, or that he had a family who loved him, or that he was a human being...

[uponit7771]

21. +1

[bigtree]

14. that was my take

...FOX news showed his HS photo.

I didn't think they were saying he was radicalized, or that the tweet was an attack on churches. I certainly did not see the headline as an innocuous profile. I saw it as another soft-pedaling of a (mass) murderer who happened to be white, in a world of news where dark-skin suspects are regularly portrayed by the media in much more negative ways.

But, who knows why they pulled it? I'm happy they did because of the reasons stated.

[budkin]

6. And he had a "bad day!"

This is white privilege on a billboard.

[FreepFryer]

7. "Took a shit on Monday afternoon." (Nt)

[blm]

8. What was his preacher teaching?

[Blaukraut]

11. That's what I got out of the tweet

"attended church" these days can be taken as an implication of evangelical wingnut. Sadly, the evangelical wingnuts have given church a bad rap.

[UpInArms]

9. 21 year old white Christian male

Murders 6 Asian and 2 white women

Gun bought legally day of shooting

....

There ... fixed that headline

[JI7]

10. If this was a Muslim that attended a mosque people would be asking

questions of others that attend .

They should do the same here .

[TexasTowelie]

12. A devoted church attendee

who addressed his addiction with paid sex workers. Repent!

[Owl]

13. What kind of weird Velcro jacket thing is he wearing?

[PoliticAverse]

16. You can see more of it in this foto - looks like a vest the police put on him after arrest.

[Owl]

17. Thanks! Maybe it's some sort of body armor.

[Ilsa]

18. If he shaved, he might have gotten a date.

His beard creeps me out.