• Journalist Juan Thompson charged with making bomb threats against Jewish sites
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[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/nyregion/jewish-centers-bomb-threats-arrest.html?_r=0[/url] [quote]The federal authorities have charged a St. Louis man with making more than half a dozen bomb threats against Jewish community centers, schools and a Jewish history museum, an unsealed court document shows. The man, Juan Thompson, made some of the threats in his own name and others in the name of a former girlfriend, apparently in an attempt to intimidate her, according to a federal complaint filed by the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan and unsealed on Friday. In one threat, made on Feb. 1 against a Jewish school in Farmington Hills, Mich., the complaint said, Mr. Thompson claimed that he had placed two bombs in the school and was “eager for Jewish newton,” an apparent reference to the December 2012 school massacre in Newtown, Conn., in which a gunman killed 20 students and six school employees. A news website, The Intercept, confirmed in a statement on Friday that Mr. Thompson worked for the publication for a little over a year, until he was fired in January 2016 after it was discovered that he had fabricated sources and quotes in his articles.[/quote] [quote]Mr. Thompson, 31, made his threats “as part of a sustained campaign to harass and intimidate” the former girlfriend, and that harassment appeared to have begun shortly after their relationship ended last July, according to the complaint, which was signed by Christopher Mills, an F.B.I. special agent.[/quote] bonus: [media]https://twitter.com/JuanMThompson/status/836267885962145793[/media] [url=https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6Ap56BVUAINFr9.jpg]In case the tweet disappears[/url]
Son of a bitch.
Who is Juan Thompson? Whoever he is I certainly hope he's put away for a very, very long time if guilty.
I hope the others who have been making threats can be found.
his twitter's full of him trying to blame the threats on his ex
He had a big scandal last year, fabricating stuff. [quote]In February 2016, the site appended lengthy corrections to five stories by reporter Juan Thompson and retracted a sixth, about Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, written over the previous year, focused on the African-American community. Shortly afterward, a note from editor Betsy Reed indicated that Thompson had been fired recently after his editors discovered "a pattern of deception" in his reporting. According to Reed, he had "fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people, one of which was a Gmail account in my name".[39] The site's investigation into Thompson's reporting had found that he had, on multiple occasions, attributed quotes to people who said he had not interviewed them or did not remember him doing so, people whom they could not reach to verify the quote or whose identity could not be confirmed.[39] In the retracted story, Roof's family said they did not know of a cousin whom Thompson had quoted as saying Roof's interest in white supremacy took off after a woman to whom he was attracted began dating a black man.[40] He also used "quotes that we cannot verify from unnamed people whom he claimed to have encountered at public events". To prevent his fabrications from being discovered, she continued, he lied to editors about how he had gotten the quotes, and in one case created an email account in the name of one of his sources. When editors discovered his actions, she added, he stood by his published work and, while admitting to creating the email accounts, refused to assist in the review otherwise.[39] Reed apologized to readers and to those misquoted. She noted that some of Thompson's work, most of it using public sources, was verifiable. Editors alerted any downstream users of the affected stories, and promised to take similar action if further fabrication came to light.[39] After the note was published, the site amended Thompson's online biography when an editor at a Chicago public radio station said that while Thompson had indeed worked there, he had no involvement in the station's news reporting as he had claimed. His past tenure at DNAinfo in Chicago, where one editor tweeted in response to the story that she could have seen it coming, was also edited out.[41] In an email to Reed he shared with various news outlets, Thompson said he was being treated for testicular cancer and for that reason had not had access to his notes when the site had asked to review them. He explained his methods as "writing drafts of stories, placing the names of [people] I wanted to get quotes from in there, and then going to fetch the quotes ... If I couldn't obtain a quote from the person I wanted, I went somewhere else, and must've forgot to change the names—clearly." While he admitted this was "sloppy", he faulted The Intercept for lacking "a sustained and competent editor to guide me," alluding to the site's managerial turnovers.[41] He suggested that the greater problem was racism in the media field. He had made up pseudonyms for some of his sources, whom he described as "poor black people who didn't want their names in the public given the situations" and would not have spoken with a reporter otherwise. "[T]he journalism that covers the experiences of poor black folk and the journalism others, such as you and First Look, are used to differs drastically," he argued. He also claimed he had felt a need to "exaggerate my personal shit in order to prove my worth" at The Intercept given incidents of racial bias he said he had witnessed there. When Gawker published his email, Reed said those allegations had not been in the version he sent her.[41] He was fired by The Intercept in early 2016, and according to Reed, did not cooperate into the investigation of his actions.[42][/quote]
[QUOTE=bdd458;51906604]He had a big scandal last year, fabricating stuff.[/QUOTE] Hope he doesn't work as a journalist after this.
I just can't trust anything anymore. Shit like this is why I just assume things are false flags. -admittedly poorly phrased, but you know what I mean, I should have said "am more skeptical of", not "assume"-
[QUOTE=Zombinie;51906615]I just can't trust anything anymore. Shit like this is why I just assume things are false flags.[/QUOTE] If somebody tells me there's a bomb in my school I'm not going to assume that's a false flag because people might fucking die
[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;51906627]If somebody tells me there's a bomb in my school I'm not going to assume that's a false flag because people might fucking die[/QUOTE] I don't think the point of his post was that if you are in the immediate bomb threat area to keep playing video games.
What a piece of actual garbage.
Great, people are not going to take these threats seriously anymore.
[QUOTE=person11;51906661]Great, people are not going to take these threats seriously anymore.[/QUOTE] Stopped taking them seriously until the police have actually apprehended people a long time ago. It is good to know a threat exists, but if there is no follow up, evidence, or it is alot of hearsay, you have to be skeptical in this political climate.
The bomb threats are concerning by themselves, though. Even if no bombing ever happens, that a bunch of people decided to target Jews is concerning.
[QUOTE=person11;51906730]The bomb threats are concerning by themselves, though. Even if no bombing ever happens, that a bunch of people decided to target Jews is concerning.[/QUOTE] I think that a bunch of left-leaning people calling in fake hate crime bombings is more concerning. I mean some of these guys are the same type of people who would scream out "anti-semite!", and now their calling in bombs to the same places they defend
I mean, this is one guy, and he has a history of lying
[QUOTE=CunningHam;51907031]You think a place blowing up is less concerning than a threat?[/QUOTE] There have been[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States#2010.E2.80.93present"] two bombings[/URL] in the past seven years, but hundreds of threats.
The number of bomb threats probably correlates with the number of smaller hate crimes against a given population. I don't have proof, but it seems like a pretty likely correlation. So while I am not worried about any JCC's actually being bombed, I worry about the rise in anti-semitism that is giving rise to these threats. It probably means more people getting harassed on the streets or discriminated against in other ways.
This doesn't make you a journalist, this makes you fake news. You are fired.
[QUOTE=person11;51906879]I mean, this is one guy, and he has a history of lying[/QUOTE] There's been numerous accounts of false-flag hate-speech in the wake of Trump's victory lol. The first week after his victory was day after day of "college student arrested for fake threats", if you don't remember.
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