Just to follow up on our post from Monday, the family of Robert Cantrell, the white man wrongly accused of murder by Shaun King, reports getting death threats in the wake of the activist’s now-deleted tweet of his mugshot:
Family of man wrongfully accused by activist Shaun King in Jazmine Barnes' shooting speaks out: https://t.co/J0SUx5dK9n pic.twitter.com/RxSBkNADKI
— ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) January 8, 2019
From ABC 7 Chicago:
Hailey Cantrell says despite the arrests of two suspects in the murder case, as recent as Monday, there have been threatening comments on her Facebook page regarding her uncle, Robert Cantrell.
“I hear, ‘Someone is going to rape, torture and murder the women and children in your family,” Hailey read from one comment.
King had called Cantrell a “violent, racist a**hole” in the now-deleted post:
Because otherwise, you end publicly accusing innocent purse-snatchers of murder? pic.twitter.com/49qWbgH5g5
— Sandy Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) January 6, 2019
King, however, is the real victim here as he’s fighting back against online rumors that he pocketed the reward as it was his tips to the Harris County Sheriff’s Department that led to the arrests of the suspects:
This is a slanderous lie.
1. I never received a single penny from this reward. That would be fraudulent.
2. It was given by generous private donors to a 3rd party escrow account.
3. All reward funds go directly to the Tipster.
4. You made all this shit up for likes & RTs. https://t.co/BexCOysIMd
— Shaun King (@shaunking) January 8, 2019
5. I vetted over 1,000 tips & reports myself. Working day & night for a week to find who killed a 7 year old girl.
6. I personally introduced the tipster to police and let them do work.
7. Shoot a 7 year old girl in the face and I will help bust your ass 100% of the time. https://t.co/BexCOysIMd
— Shaun King (@shaunking) January 8, 2019
Yes, it must really suck to get falsely accused of something on Twitter:
It’s a wild thing to work around the clock to solve the murder of a 7 year old girl after she is shot in the face by a stranger, only to have folk now tweet that I’m a snitch.
Are we really playing this game?
Had I caught a white man would you call me a snitch?
It’s ugly.
— Shaun King (@shaunking) January 8, 2019
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Related:
Harris County Sheriff thanks Shaun King for the tip that led to an arrest in the murder of #JazmineBarnes https://t.co/lO0p4eAqrf
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 7, 2019
‘Oh to be a liberal’: CNN does a nice profile of Shaun King after he passed on that tip https://t.co/WnwO0naiBY
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 8, 2019