As Twitchy noted, the Associated Press seemed awfully careful about what it released on that story of a raid on a compound in New Mexico in which a man whose father was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing was alleged to be training children to be school shooters. The whole Muslim extremist component seemed to have been overlooked:
BREAKING: Court documents say man arrested at New Mexico compound was training children to commit school shootings.
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 8, 2018
The Latest: Prosecutors say in court documents that the father of a missing Georgia boy was training children at a New Mexico compound to commit school shootings. https://t.co/Sz3omSdlCD
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 8, 2018
CNN also appeared to have erased from its coverage the sheriff’s statement that the individuals were “extremists of the Muslim belief.”
It didn’t take long for the public to find out, and not surprisingly, people were shocked to hear Monday night that the suspects were going to be released on signature bond, meaning they didn’t even have to post cash bail to be released.
Well, it looks like we’ve finally found a headline that mentions the religion of the suspects, in a story about “social media, email and telephone threats made against Taos District Court Judge Sarah Backus.”
Judge in N.M. compound case threatened after ordering release of Muslim family https://t.co/QBhyeZ7pFI pic.twitter.com/G1YYMCmanY
— WUSA9 (@wusa9) August 15, 2018
For the record, we’re staunchly opposed to threats, but it does seem funny only now to refer to the suspects as a Muslim family. Just another Muslim family, you know.
Well, that’s, one way to report it https://t.co/1ifzJnxhST
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) August 15, 2018
Quite the interesting phrasing here. https://t.co/90zu1CQFZW
— Rev. Ducati ? (@Reverend_Ducati) August 15, 2018
https://twitter.com/prefragoph/status/1029526026278330372
*After the release of terrorists with plans to shoot up schools https://t.co/VSpovI3WBx
— Yvonne ? (@Yvonne_Nicole_) August 15, 2018
By Muslim family you mean the Muslim family that are terrorists, running an ISIS-like terrorist camp on America soil, training kids to blow up schools, murder children, that is when the terrorists/enemy combatants aren’t abusing & killing kids themselves. That Muslim family? https://t.co/eM7bvykFlj
— Poppy (@Aletheiaquester) August 15, 2018
It's ridiculous that she released these people. They murdered a toddler in a ritualized fashion and trained children to shoot up schools. How in the HELL does she go and release them?
— Dragon Empress (@DragonEmpressEn) August 15, 2018
What about the children who feel threatened as a result of the release of this family?
— Darren Lenick (@DFLenick) August 15, 2018
Never fear. Trevor Hughes of USA Today reports that “three women and a man could be released and tracked with GPS ankle monitors pending their trial on child-abuse charges in connection with the treatment of their 11 kids kept on the site.”
However, the man who “snatched his toddler son from his former wife but failed to give him medical care, causing him to die sometime early last year” during a religious ritual will remain in jail on a kidnapping warrant.
Newsbusters noted last Wednesday that ABC News gave the raid on the compound a whopping 15 seconds of airtime.
Related:
Report: NYPD had surveilled mosque connected to New Mexico compound, but ACLU intervened https://t.co/xbP0PXi1Fk
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 10, 2018
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