He's been officially charged.

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Missing the gag completely bender.

Once he gave the ABC News interview it rang alarm bells across the board. Dave Chapelle called bulls*** early.

The 'gay tupac' narcissism and idea that someone would be shouting 'Hey Empire' like this guy was an A-lister. The attacker already wearing a mask while reeling off epithets. Cliched 'MAGA' comments. I'd never even heard of Jessie Swallocks. You can tell the guy's an actor and not a script writer.

It's worth fleshing out the usual racial and political tone though to add that the opposite has happened many a time.. the 'a black brute' killed my wife, when it turns out it was the husband all along, the 'gay panic' defense as a get out of jail card for anyone wanting to bash gay people up. Society lurches this way and that and you will always have unfortunate types with no impulse control who take advantage of cultural achilles heels.

It's pitiful stuff and I hope the guy is locked up. It could well result in people that have genuinely physically attacked thinking that they'll now be viewed with suspicion. He has done a disservice to all in one way or another. Pathetic stuff.

Edited by dollardays (22 Feb 2019 8.36pm)

I can see why you view it this way and I wouldn't disagree.

However....For me, I'm just glad that common sense won the day.

This guy is no different to most unethical guys on the make....He's getting it in the neck now but lets all remember that this fool hasn't killed anybody. In his head, he hates Trump and all his circle hate Trump and he wants to get on....So he's thinking how do I raise my profile.....So he comes up with a 'victimless' crime which just reinforces what he thinks is true anyway.

Personally I don't think he saw a wider context like you explained there, though I agree this kind of thing has an impact.

If he hadn't involved the Police then he would have just had his friends do the 'listen and believe' stuff...people in his circle would have accepted it and and it probably wouldn't have had that much coverage.

But apart from being a bit unethical he just wasn't bright enough to see the possible pit falls.

As we know....if something is possible then a human being is going to do it. So hoax crimes are just apart of the rich canopy of criminality.

I found the whole episode a rich seam of humour because of its ridiculousness and of how many 'woke' individuals on Twitter responded to it.

However, I'd agree, there is also a serious side.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Yeah, a bit worrying that she was said to be doing so well at A level isn't it.

It's true, young Jussie, thought that these guys heading out of the country would mean the Police investigation would turn up nothing and that he'd be believed and have his profile raised.

He'd probably been watching too many poorly made TV dramas......he should have thought about the phone and that Police generally aren't so stupid as not to consider they are being played.

Once it started falling apart it does appear that he was willing to see others be charged for the attack....But I guess at that stage he was feeling the heat. So yeah, I take the point....He thought it was going to be a victimless crime....but it ended up endangering other people with the final victim being himself.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I'd never heard of it either.....but then again we only get to hear about the major stuff I suppose.

I'm still watching 'Allo Allo' reruns.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)