Ferguson Cop Supporters Endanger Reporters’s Family By Publishing Home Address
John Prager has the story at AATTP about the doxing of a reporter by right-wing supporters of Officer Darren Wilson. “Doxing,” as Prager notes, is revealing “restricted personal information” about a person.
As part of a legitimate news broadcast, CNN’s Ed Lavandera reported from the street on which Darren Wilson lives. “Darren Wilson lives on this street lives here on this street in another St. Louis suburb,” Lavandera said as footage of Wilson’s home rolled. He did not provide Wilson’s address or even the name of the town in which he lives–but that was enough to enrage right-wingers.
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This prompted Pat Dollard, who recently suggested that “It’s time to start slaughtering Muslims in the street,” to claim that “CNN’s Hispanic Ed Lavandera” attempted to “murder white Ferguson police officer” Darren Wilson. Jim Hoft, the conservative blogger who manufactured the much-repeated lie that Wilson suffered an orbital blowout fracture, claimed that the media is trying to get Darren Wilson “lynched.”
One conservative blogger, “Paladin Justice,” at saboteur365 however, took things way too far. Despite that Lavandera at no point provided Wilson’s personal information, he claimed the reporter did–and in an attempt to exact vengeance for this imagined wrong “saboteur” did this:
That’s right–in an effort to harass Lavandera, the blogger provided the home address of the reporter–though he was not the original source. After locating Lavandera’s home address in a comment section on American Renaissance, he decided to share it with the world…
He said that “It sends a powerful message to the media that we are watching them. Put Ed Lavandera on your Christmas card list. LOL.”
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RioBravoHombre August 24th, 2014 at 11:47 pm
If this cowardly cop had the injuries they claim he has, he’d be on Fox News 24/7. If this cowardly cop thought he could explain his actions in public, and make a solid case for why he shot Brown, he’d be doing it. Instead, this cowardly cop is hiding, and his fuckhead supporters stay anonymous. The incident report, which reports NOTHING, says volumes about how far this coward, and this racist police department, will go to coverup the truth. Wait for the investigation to be complete? There’s no investigation by Ferguson PD…just a coverup of a murder of an unarmed black man…AGAIN!
granpa.usthai August 25th, 2014 at 1:22 am
I think it’s because someone will ID him as one of the ‘rule of lawers’ at the Bundy Bungalow in Nevada. That, or ‘missing’ military weapons.
Red Eye Robot August 25th, 2014 at 12:13 am
Why would the reporter be in any danger if his address were known?
M D Reese August 25th, 2014 at 12:39 am
Because these right wing racists are not at all nice people. To them, LOL means lock and load.
Obewon August 25th, 2014 at 1:39 am
O’Reilly’s inciting the Tide foundation assault on police & Dr Tiller’s murder should have clued you in.
FYI Pat Dollard, who recently suggested that “It’s time to start slaughtering Muslims in the street,” to claim that “CNN’s Hispanic Ed Lavandera” attempted to “murder white Ferguson police officer” Darren Wilson. Jim Hoft, the conservative blogger who manufactured the much-repeated lie that Wilson suffered an orbital blowout fracture, claimed that the media is trying to get Darren Wilson “lynched.”
DieselJohnson August 25th, 2014 at 2:50 am
What is your address?
Pistol-Packing August 25th, 2014 at 6:58 am
123 Happy St, Pleasantville, US 000000
William August 25th, 2014 at 10:18 am
Hey glad I caught you there Corkey. I’m still looking for a link to those uparmored humvees with belt fed machine guns on top at the Bundy ranch, you were talking about a few days ago.
Got that link yet?
mrsgunka August 25th, 2014 at 12:39 am
Pinch me! Is this really America? What on earth is going on, turning on each other! This is so sick. You want to fight? Join the real Army and go after real terrorists! Do unto others does not mean to cause harm to others!
Red Eye Robot August 25th, 2014 at 12:57 am
Is this sick like when Spike Lee gave out George Zimmerman’s address in hopes people would harm him and it turned out it wasn’t Zimmerman’s address? Or is it sick like Floyd Corkins who got the address of the Family Research Council from The Southern Poverty Law Center and shot an unarmed security guard and hoped to kill as many as he could and smear chic-fil-a sandwiches in their faces as they died?
mrsgunka August 25th, 2014 at 1:26 am
….turning on each other?
Obewon August 25th, 2014 at 1:36 am
What’a dope: GZ’s address was on-record because of Trayvone’s MURDER location, plus Zimmerman’s other arrests for assaulting police & his former employers customer. ->Directions to FRC. Washington, D.C. Office. Family Research Council (801 G Street N.W.) will be on the right, across from the National Museum of American Art. Via their own website http://www.frc.org/directions-to-frc
Red Eye Robot August 25th, 2014 at 2:09 am
Spike Lee tweeted to his 240,000 followers what he thought was the address of George Zimmerman, In hopes that someone would harm him. Turns out the Address was actually that of Elaine & David McClain. A retired couple in their 70’s who were deluged with death threats from compassionate liberals and had to flee their home. Even after it was established the McClains had no connection to Zimmerman, caring liberals like yourself continued to make death threats
Floyd Corkins, The Kind Compassionate Liberal plead guilty to three charges: Transporting a gun across state lines, assault with intent to kill and committing an act of terrorism while armed. Stated he got the FRC address from the SPLC website who labeled the FRC a “hate group” on their website. Liberal Corkins actually had a list of 4 conservative orgs. he had got from the SPLC and planed to hit others if he was not stopped at the FRC
Obewon August 25th, 2014 at 2:24 am
You RWNJ’s are well proven murderers of 100,000+ via your Tea Klux Klan, AmRen, sovereign citizens/Patriot movement & Christian identity extremists. Here’s 24 doemestic attacks proving GWB’s DHS report correct that 2/3 of domestic terrorism are from the above mentioned anarchist extremists! Terrorism Directed At ‘Liberal’ And ‘Government’ Targets July 2008-2011 http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/violence-directed-liberal-and-govern
Red Eye Robot August 25th, 2014 at 3:25 am
Meanwhile in Detroit in 2013, 333 black people were murdered by Obama supporters. (detroit voted for obama 98%)
Obewon August 25th, 2014 at 4:05 am
32,163 U.S. gun deaths in 2011, plus another 70,000 shot in the U.S. annually, are primarily the 47% (2/3 gun owning) GOP popular 2008 vote demographic by state. Lets look at the 37th safest gun state:
Where does Illinois rank? Not in the top 5, obviously. Illinois doesn’t even make the top ten. According toVPC’s chart, Illinois ranked at spot 37, meaning 36 other states have worse gun death rates than Illinois. With a rate of 8.66 gun deaths per 100,000 citizens, Illinois comes in below the national average, which was 10.38 in 2011.https://www.vpc.org/fadeathchart14.htm Mi. ranks 22nd.
Bunya August 25th, 2014 at 2:55 pm
excellent post, Obewon – as always!
Anomaly 100 August 25th, 2014 at 7:48 am
Citation needed.
Don’t do that here.
raincheck August 25th, 2014 at 8:49 am
“plead guilty to three charges: Transporting a gun across state lines,
assault with intent to kill and committing an act of terrorism while
armed. There might have been 3 charges… but IMO only one crime (someone had a gun that shouldn’t have one) wouldn’t want to infringe on his 2nd amendment rights!!!
R.J. Carter August 25th, 2014 at 11:37 am
Yes, Spike Lee was quite the dope.
Gindy51 August 25th, 2014 at 7:56 am
You really don’t know? I mean what better way to keep the peons down by letting them murder each other. Anyone could have seen this decades away. The more we fight each other, the more “they” win. Things like the Koch Bros. LOVE them some class warfare in the morning. It makes them rest easy knowing we are tearing each other apart and not investigating them.
raincheck August 25th, 2014 at 8:39 am
Nancy Pelosi should never have taken investigating the Bush Admin. “off of the table” Still trying to figure that one out…anyone have any answers to that?
Meanwhile President Obama is investigated for anything and everything, no matter how ridiculous, or costly it might be.
Tommy6860 August 25th, 2014 at 12:52 am
It was a matter of time before I saw another example of Pat Dullard’s (yes, I spelled his last name correctly on purpose) kind of hate. I’ve had a run-in with him before a few years back on some chat board (must have been forgettable), and he makes Ted Nugent come across as a liberal. Hard to believe it’s 2014, seriously!
granpa.usthai August 25th, 2014 at 1:19 am
this is one of the finest points in republicans ‘rule of law’, which is why I keep calling for the little white boy in the US Senate to reveal the name, rank, and organization of every single one of the ‘rule of republican lawers’ at the Nevada gathering.
Pistol-Packing August 25th, 2014 at 7:01 am
I think it is safe to say, that this falls back to Zimmerman and others. When people report the address, prior to an arrest being made.
Teddy Simon August 25th, 2014 at 8:53 am
But it was ok for the news to put out the cops name and address when it would endanger his family , but not a reporters , kind of hypocritical of you
raincheck August 25th, 2014 at 9:05 am
“in an effort to harass Lavandera, the blogger provided the home address of the reporter–though he was not the original source”
“He did not provide Wilson’s address or even the name of the town in which he lives–but that was enough to enrage right-wingers.”
Did you actually read this before you opened your mouth?
David Barnes August 25th, 2014 at 10:47 am
Read before you comment otherwise you look like a total schmuck.
Tammy Minton Haley August 25th, 2014 at 1:25 pm
you didn’t read the article…you are incompetent to comment…
R.J. Carter August 25th, 2014 at 11:36 am
In this age of Google Earth, isn’t an image of a house and neighborhood as good as a wriiten/verbalized street address?
Rixar13 McGinnis August 25th, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Officer Darren Wilson needs to be in the Can (jail), and await the process that any criminal would be obligated to do.
R.J. Carter August 25th, 2014 at 3:08 pm
He will be — if he’s convicted of being a criminal. We like to wait until someone’s been convicted in this country before we lock them away.
Alex August 25th, 2014 at 5:20 pm
Well, sometimes………..
whatthe46 August 25th, 2014 at 9:34 pm
or in the case with some cops, they like to dispatch justice in the street, before an arrest is even made, forget about a trial and coviction.
shirleythomas August 25th, 2014 at 4:17 pm
just as they publish the addresses of folks whso work at abortion clinic. how about posting the addresses of these demented cops and their racist supporters
Skip Patterson August 25th, 2014 at 9:39 pm
The right-wing teabagging Christofascist are worse than worthless. But until the American people understand we are up against an enemy in which their is no possibility of reasoning with them, there is no possibility of negotiation with them, they are just going to get worse and more violent with each passing day.
Wake up American, your country is being taken over by fascists. So the question is what are you going to do about it? So far, the response to that question for the last 30 years has been, nothing.