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Red-handed: Associated Press caught inserting assault rifle into Alabama hostage standoff
Written By: Bob
Feb 0113
Jimmy Lee Dykes has no business having firearms. A violent Vietnam vet with PTSD who beat a neighbors dog to death, threatened to shoot school children, and did shoot into an occupied vehicle, that Dykes wasnt already incarcerated is a complete failure of the mental health and criminal justice system in this nation. All that happened before he murdered a school bus drive and took a 5-year-old hostage earlier this week in an on-going standoff.
In reading up on the hostage situation today, however, I caught an edit to the established facts (my bold below).
Heres the current Associated Press report:
Dykes was known in the neighborhood as a menacing figure who neighbors said once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and an assault rifle.
Heres the earlier story:
Dykes was known around the neighborhood as a menacing figure who once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a shotgun.
Yes, the Associated Press has been caught red-handed changing shotgun to assault rifle in their reporting.
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