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At a news conference, a law enforcement official says early indications are that Atlanta-area mass shooter Robert Aaron Long may have been motivated by issues stemming from "sexual addiction," not racism -- but he cautions that the investigation is in an early stage
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I don’t know anything about this police chief. If he really is sympathetic to the murderer at all, he deserves the grief in the replies here. But it seems like he’s really just trying to dispassionately describe the subject’s state of mind during the crime.
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Disgusting how this is being explained. We all have bad days and not everyone murders people because of it. Take a nap, go home, many different things to do but murder...
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Context matters - this is how you lose your audience’s trust
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So this is the origin of the viral story: a Vox dot com journalist misrepresents a LE official's summary of what the suspect said to investigators as his own explanation. How many people even bothered to watch this clip, let alone the full video? Disgusting. twitter.com/atrupar/status…
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