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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Which is why I am happy she issued an apology. It was definately out of character for her to get so carried away so quickly. We're all guilty of getting carried from time to time.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Sunday apologised, and I think that's enough. What more could you possible want?
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Umm, not to do it in the first place?
Look, I get it. People perceive things differently, emotions run high, your own biases affect the narrative. It's human nature to think you're in the right at the time. If she made her post the night of the incident and had a chance to rethink things or took the opportunity to discuss with the police when they tried to contact her and then issued an apology shortly after it occurred. Fine. I could accept that at facevalue.
But that wasn't near the case. She went a
month hiding in the shadows, letting her tweet be reposted and reposted, while this officer is being called racist and CPS is taking another hit to its reputation. All the while they are trying to sit down with her and discuss the situation, or at least release the video because they know she's lying. She's avoiding this like the plague, because as a media whore, she's getting "likes," and she knows that this will blow over in a month and a forced apology will not have anywhere near the same media attention. Hell, apparently people will see it as owning her mistake and somehow give her even more positive pres. At the same time the named officer is continuously being called a racist. Disgusting.
If she actually believed her narrative was truthful, she would have been happy to oblige the police in releasing the video or at the very least responded to them. Instead for a month she avoided every contact from the police.
This was more of a career decision by Sunday. Get pulled over, cry racism, get reposted, favourited, discuss her incident in her next article, interview, blog or whatever bull####.
Oh, and this isn't the first time she's done this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sunday-...b_3875009.html
Here's a lengthy article about a salesperson who was racist for saying something to the affect of "people like you" to her.
Here's the response from the salesperson:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sunday-...b_3875009.html
The salesperson was referring to models when she said people like you. Of course the first article received far more views, had over 100 comments, was shared, had people congratulating her for taking the moral high ground. etc. etc. Then the second article where it's determined it's just a misunderstand a week later gets 14 comments. It's her shtick, she doesn't care who she hurts or how she negatively affects society as long as she gets some attention.
It's a vile personality. And it affects more people than just her and the officer. It's crying wolf and it diminishes the likelihood of the next person to complain about racism from the CPS taken as seriously. If propagates racial issues between the CPS and the neighbourhood that may or may not be there, but certainly can't be helped if people are lying about it.
And let's not overlook that she's a "journalist." This isn't Calgaryblood going on CP and anonymously posting about an incident with an anonymous officer. She's the one trying to present her self as media, she's reporting this incident, she's using real names. The very least, as a journalist, she should have been happy to release the video to get the true story out. If you can overlook her vile personality, she's still a terrible journalist.