The In the Dark articles talk about a Willie Hemphill, a black man, who was questioned and held for eleven days. Then there were the two black guys committing the same type of execution-style murders in Alabama at about the same time. So yes, there were other suspects or persons of interest.
And they focused on Flowers?
Yes, they focused on Flowers. That's pretty obvious to anyone. The question is, did they focus on him because he's black? Given that all the other possibilities they were looking at were also black, I'd have to say no.
ullshit. You said they trolled Phillips "mercilessly". It obviously bothered you on some level.
More shithouse lawyering...
No "shithouse lawyer" tactics are necessary because this is not the first time you've brought up how people criticized Phillips. You've brought it up every time we discussed it. So yes, I think it bothered you.
For Christ's sake, be honest for once in your life. I told you straight up that it bothered me the way Sandmann was criticized. There's no reason you can't admit that criticism of Phillips bothered you. I mean, you were triggered by a smiling Catholic teenager, I find it hard to believe this did not trigger you.
If I come up on a situation where you, a vet, got in some kid's face without provocation just because he's wearing a MAGA hat and all he did was smile at you, I'm going straight to you to ask what ******* business you had for getting in his face in the first place. I don't give a loose shit in a high wind for your veteran status if you're going to dishonor yourself and flout it in this way.
Again, then I'd have to laugh at someone who never served making statements like that.
Laugh all you want. If you are an asshole, I'm calling you an asshole. If a veteran is an asshole, I'm calling him an asshole. You don't get a pass from me for being a vet. You don't get a free pass from me for being little, brown, or both for that matter. Actions define who we are, not skin color or ethnicity or military status.
I'll say it again: Phillips is a lying douchebag who got involved in a situation he had no business getting into and then blamed the very people
he confronted when he started feeling uncomfortable. He then went on national TV and lied and said they were chanting "Build that wall" and that he could "feel their hate" (I just about threw up when he said that) when those kids never said any such thing and had no ******* clue why he approached them.