CNN.com - Family remembers G8 protester - July 21, 2001

[Declan McCullagh]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 09:58:54AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> > I'm sympathetic to the deceased's family. But it strikes me that if
> > you assault a police vehicle with armed cops inside with the evident
> > intent to do physical harm, you'd better be wearing a bulletproof vest.
> 
> That has yet to be proven. Simply tumping a vehicle over is not in and of
> itself 'intent to do physical harm'. You assume, without evidence, that
> the protestors even knew the van was occupied. Further, you assume that
> the protestor shot was actually involved. Further, you assume that the
> store the police stated is accurate.

A close look at the Reuters photo sequence shows that these "assumptions"
are in truth conclusions.

> A lot of assumptions for somebody who is supposed to be unbiased as a
> journalist.

Hahahahahahaha.

-Declan