Posted on 08/14/2014 3:56:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The hacking collective known as Anonymous is trying to shine a light on the roots of the racial violence in a St. Louis suburb.
On Aug. 13, the group published hours of alleged police dispatch tapes from the day Ferguson, Mo., police shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown.
That same day, one of a handful of Twitter accounts claiming to be associated with the Anonymous group posted comments they say came from the wife of Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson.
Speaking of people in Ferguson, a woman identified as Catherine Nardi wrote: "They are feral and violent. They murder each other. They murder their unborn babies. They murder white people. They hate police officers and murder some of them, even black ones. They destroy neighbors and entire cities with garbage and drugs. They live their lives off the hard-earned tax dollars of other Americans. Yet somehow they are victims. What insanity is that?"
The comments have been retweeted more than 5,400 times.
But the person in the Facebook message, Catherine Nardi, is not the wife of the Ferguson police chief.
Nardi lives in St. Petersburg, Fla., not Missouri, according to public records. She is married to Henry Nardi, who is not the police chief of Ferguson. We reached out to Nardi via Facebook, but she did not respond. A woman answering a phone number associated with her hung up on a reporter.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jackson’s wife is named Patricia, not Catherine. We were unable to reach Jackson’s wife.
As for the specific words in the message, we did not find them on Nardi’s Facebook page or anywhere else.
Our ruling
A post from a group claiming that it is associated with Anonymous said that the wife of the Ferguson, Mo., police chief said African-Americans in Ferguson "are feral and violent," among other things.
The tweet references a Facebook post that is not from Jackson’s wife. The woman in the picture lives in Florida not Missouri.
We rate this claim Pants on Fire.
I guess looting stores, burning them to the ground, doing drive-by shootings of innocent people doesn’t qualify as “feral” to the Selective Lib Outrage crowd.
I’d say she has a valid point........
How was she incorrect? Other than politically?
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck. It’s a duck.
I’ll let you figure out my point.
Feral:(from Latin fera, “a wild beast”) is an animal living in the wild but descended from domesticated individuals.
Yep!
When she calls them “Amish”, we’ll know she’s a FReeper! :)
This has been shown to be a hoax.
Also, notice that no one is disputing the assertions made assertion
The predominantly black rioters in Ferguson are feral human beings. The Ferguson police are a bunch of jack booted thugs, one of whom likely executed a man after he surrendered. These are two true statements that have nothing to do with each other save that they have been made visible by the same incident.
Has anyone read the article I posted yet?
Is it possible to be correct but politically incorrect?
So, the politically correct answer is a lie?
Welcome to tyranny.
yea , free speech ya know...I hear a lot worse than that daily....folks are getting tired of the thug community
Nah, we shoot from the hip around here.
Yeah, no s***!
This was her giveaway sentence.
ROFL!!
What, and spoil the fun?
Please read the article above you. She (the Ferguson, Missouri police chief’s wife) didn’t say anything, it was a woman down in Florida with a similar name.
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