[Secret Agent Man]

Why are they so invested in concocting a falsity, because the conductor is gay?

It makes no difference if something hit the train.

The train was going over twice the speed the curve in that part of the track was designed to handle. It was going to derail regardless if something hit the train first.

[MeshugeMikey]

they are so guilt ridden...that they FEEL they must protect the guilty party from a shipload of MICROAGRESSIONS

[rdl6989]

The train was going over twice the speed the curve in that part of the track was designed to handle. It was going to derail regardless if something hit the train first. Very true, but the low information readership of the Slimes will eat it up. We can't have people focusing on the fact that the engineer is gay/mentally unbalanced.

[StAnDeliver]

"Why are they so invested in concocting a falsity, because the conductor is gay?

It makes no difference if something hit the train.

The train was going over twice the speed the curve in that part of the track was designed to handle. It was going to derail regardless if something hit the train first."

The media is invested to concoct a falsity to aid the defense, to force the Philly District Attorney to arbitrarily file something lower than pre-meditated first degree murder.

Hell, if you take away malice in Penn, and nullfy the jury with this 'distraction' trope, it's already down to manslaughter.