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12/21/2014

SEK Headline At Raw Story: Police Protestor RUN OVER BY POLICE CRUISER!!!!!!1!!!!1!1!!

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:55 pm



Of course, people don’t write their own headlines. But when they post their own pieces on Facebook, and don’t disclaim the headlines, they are responsible for the ensuing presentation:

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Reading that Facebook entry, one would get the impression that Scott Eric Kaufman was claiming that a police protestor had been “run over” by the cops. No?

There was a video showing the aftermath of the incident, with a guy screaming that THEY RAN A POLICE CRUISER OVER HER!!!!! People were screaming “NO JUSTICE NO PEACE!!!” and shouting that “THIS IS GOING ON NATIONAL NEWS!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!” I took SEK to task pretty quickly, since these declamations seemed to me to utterly lack credibility:

THEY RAN A POLICE CRUISER OVER HER!!!! That report seems quite credible.

After all, the woman seemed pretty much fine after being “run over.” Anyway, shortly after I started hassling SEK over this, this correction appeared at Raw Story:

[CORRECTION: This article originally claimed that police “ran over” a protester. However,video of the incident shows a police SUV slowly backed into the woman and an officer who tried to move her out of the way. Neither the woman nor the officer appeared to be hurt. Raw Story regrets the error.]

And the headline got changed from the cops having “run over” the woman to having “back[ed] into” her.

Want to see the cops RUNNING OVER THIS WOMAN WITH A POLICE CRUISER!!!!!!11!!1!!!? Scroll to about 3:40, to watch the woman walking into a police cruiser idling backwards at about .5 mph. A police officer tries to grab her out of harm’s way as the cruiser barely taps her.

OH MY GOD THE HUMANITY!!!!!1!!!

I have spent the time since then trying to shame SEK into admitting that maybe he screwed up. His position? He sekritly tried to communicate his skepticism, and trusted his readers to pick up on his implicit concerns about the validity of the story. Also, he doesn’t write the headlines, so even if he links the story on his private Facebook feed, and it contains a totally misleading headline, he is not responsible for that because SQUIRREL!!!!!

67 Responses to “SEK Headline At Raw Story: Police Protestor RUN OVER BY POLICE CRUISER!!!!!!1!!!!1!1!!”

  1. The guy screaming”he backed into her…”, what an ultra! Jeez.

    Gazzer (ae5179)

  2. Oh, and ding.

    Gazzer (ae5179)

  3. The dude in the black jacket in the video is funny.

    JD (e186a2)

  4. I hate teaser tabloid headlines that don’t deliver what promised. Like, “STATUE OF ELVIS FOUND ON MARS … says psychic who claims to be able to sense objects up to the edge of the Solar System”. I was so looking forward to a hippie with treadmarks and ho-hum, hardly touched.

    nk (dbc370)

  5. Lately many of those headlines says “POLICE KILL MAN FOR X!” where X= something like selling cigarettes, or spitting on the sidewalk, or some other innocuous activity that police do not kill people for. Invariably, it appears that police approached the person based on “X” and then took defensive actions in response to “Y” — which is (also invariably) far more dangerous to police lives than “X.”

    Patterico (9c670f)

  6. I read somewhere that most people read the headline and maybe the first paragraph. I have read many articles where the main body actually contradicts the headline. It’s what they do…

    Gazzer (ae5179)

  7. That dumb lefty scrunt walked into the car.

    Estragon (ada867)

  8. Gazzer,

    SEK maintains that it should be obvious from the picture that the woman wasn’t run over. Therefore, the fact that he was highlighting a headline that said she had been, is totally irrelevant. And I am being tiresome by pressing the point.

    Really, people, can’t we just move on from this stunning twisting of the facts by SEK? It’s been hours!! Don’t we have better things to talk about??

    Patterico (9c670f)

  9. Of course he does. Still doesn’t detract from the fact that he sensationalized the whole thing solely for attention. He is a tool and a fool, as a great man once said, “I pity the fool…”

    Gazzer (ae5179)

  10. she ain’t no speed bump
    just an obnoxious nut bag
    a sh*t disturber

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  11. yes SEK sucks
    although the weakest of sucks
    librul tradition

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  12. A Police Cruiser Runs Over a Woman and You’ll Never Guess What Happens Next!

    JVW (60ca93)

  13. Oh, and by the way, the lefty woman? Let’s see: Grey unkempt hair? Check. Granny glasses? Check. Screechy, whiny voice? Check. Bag lady fashion? Check.

    Man, do they get ’em straight out of Central Casting for these protests or what?

    JVW (60ca93)

  14. This video is instructive and should be used to show all juries that even contemporaneous reports can be a pack of lies.

    The guy who is filming this starts off with “The police hit her” and within 20 seconds he’s at “The police ran over her” and distant parties come to see what the fracas is. He’s clearly a loud liar who is trying to get a whole bunch of witnesses to something that did not happen.

    It’s right out of the witch scene in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” “She turned me into a newt!”

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  15. SEK, whoever tf that is, is just a louder liar. This is just amazingly poor.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  16. Man, do they get ‘em straight out of Central Casting for these protests or what?

    There’s one like that down the street from me. Flies a UN flag on national holidays, a peace sign flag other days. Is always walking through the neighborhood, probably wish we had a real block committee to deal with stuff she doesn’t like.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  17. At the 7:30 mark like the worst P-Funk concert ever breaks out.

    God, these young protesters today are awful. They have all the self-righteous anger in the world, but no real strategy beyond having themselves appear on social media in a self-mastubatory way. I love at the end where they promise to “shut something down” on Christmas Eve. This ragtag band of malcontents and nincompoops couldn’t organize a two-car motorcade, but they act as if we should fear their awesome power of protest. Somewhere Martin Luther King Jr. is weeping.

    JVW (60ca93)

  18. I am here and I am relaxed… just laying on my comfortable bed watching some asshole yelling about “no fear” and “you can’t hold my fear”… he’s wrong… I’m holding his fear right here.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  19. They gonna shut the Christmas tree lot on the corner down on Christmas Eve!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  20. The dude in the jacket just cracks me up. It took him all of 5 seconds to come up with a Narrative that the likes of SEKs would lap up.

    JD (86a5eb)

  21. “pants down, winkin’ brown”

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  22. Hold da pickles hold da justice
    got yo numbah you can trust us
    all we ask is dat you bust us have it our way
    have it our way, have it our way
    have it our way or shut it down

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  23. Patterico, I know you kind of like SEK, but the fact is he is a great example of how Teh Narrative trumps all.

    He truly didn’t care about the truth. Just the narrative. And how righteous he felt speaking truth to power.

    Narcissism, reactive thinking, and polemicism are not a great combo.

    And I can promise he is the kind of person who sneers at people who watch “Faux News.”

    “Vision of the Anointed,” yet again.

    Simon Jester (3a2c60)

  24. Most of us would not know that SEK existed on planet earth were it not for his occasional cameos here. Why give him the space and clicks?

    elissa (15c080)

  25. Elissa, I think that Patterico has a history of trying to be fair to others (he certainly has been so to me). Specifically, Patterico has been tolerant of SEK and encouraged discussion over the years.

    Many of us felt that SEK was just a goose-stepping progressive. But I am not happy to be right in my estimation.

    Patterico is opinionated, but one thing that sets him apart (and SEK could learn from this) is his ability to admit error, own mistakes, apologize, and move on.

    SEK doesn’t seem capable of that. Narcissism and self-congratulation, again.

    Simon Jester (3a2c60)

  26. Hipster lying self-absorbed d-bags tend to act like this. He probably likes cats.

    JD (86a5eb)

  27. People with un-ironic neckbeards, trying to pull off the lumbersexual look, crack me up. In an un-ironic way.

    JD (86a5eb)

  28. It kinda looks like she step in the path of the car. She wasn’t in that line earlier when she was screaming.

    AZ Bob (34bb80)

  29. don’t want to get run over?

    don’t be around moving vehicles…

    i learned that obvious truth as a kid, and had it permanently engraved in my subconscious while serving on and around armored fighting vehicles.

    you wanna be a catchup packet, go right ahead, but i will NOT mourn your dumb a55.

    redc1c4 (269d8e)

  30. She coulda been another St. Pancake if she was actually run over for teh cause ‘cept she wuz white an an oppressor.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  31. 1. The guy screaming”he backed into her…”, what an ultra! Jeez.
    Gazzer (ae5179) — 12/21/2014 @ 7:01 pm

    They do that on purpose. They’ll start screaming something like, “OMG, quit beating her! You’re killing her!” just for the vid. They’ll bring their kids just so they can get audio of, “Don’t kill my child.”

    None of which of course is happening. They just want to claim it happened. It’s just a protest tactic. They’ve got a script they work from; evil fascist cops versus noble, well meaning mostly peaceful protesters.

    They’re lying a$$holes. The protesters, I mean.

    I have mixed feelings about this because I’m not a huge fan of cops, in that they can be d***s, too. But despite that, the protesters make it easy to know who not to root for.

    Steve57 (98542d)

  32. If you remember, Breitbart offered $100k for anybody who could produce video or audio of anyone yelling “n****r” as Pelosi and her gang of thieves marched the Obamacare bill over to the Senate. That’s what they claimed happened. They got some icon of the civil rights (Chrissie “Tingles” Matthew’s take) movement to claim it was Selma v2.0 all over again.

    It never happened. So what. It’s how they roll. They make up the lie before the protest happens, then do what they can to make it stick.

    I believe it’s called “the narrative.”

    Steve57 (98542d)

  33. She was unarmed and that police cruise ran over her while she had her hands up and was running away!

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  34. Also, she couldn’t breath.

    Steve57 (98542d)

  35. At least they didn’t leave her lying in the street for four hours.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  36. Thank goodness for this new tone and lack of extremist rhetoric!

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  37. Yeah, I saw him try to walk that back with an “I meant to do that”. What exactly though did he mean to do, if he knew better? I think he conceded he didn’t know better, that the new video he didn’t have accounts for him taking the headline at face value.

    SarahW (267b14)

  38. I confess I missed the crime of the century. I watched the vid a couple of times, and every time it dragged on to the point where the cop drove over the mostly peaceful protester CHICOM tanker-style I was distracted by my dogs or something. It was really hard to focus on this boring video.

    You know, if this was Amerikkka’s Tiananmen square or something I’d expect to see brain matter and bone fragments or at least some blood outside of that Home Depot.

    Is that too much to ask for? A couple of gallons of blood? For the cause.

    Steve57 (98542d)

  39. Speaking of meant to do that, what does a lady of a certain age expect to happen when she walks into the path of a reversing vehicle? She got a bonk because she meant to put herself in the way.

    SarahW (267b14)

  40. Skittles and Ice tea cans everywhere.

    SarahW (267b14)

  41. There were at least a couple ladies there and severl heavy set men that could not be run over by a mere car. Gotta hand it to Walmart… the protestor special consisting of two large cheese pizzas, all you can drink at the soda machine for $7.99 seems to have degraded the overall footspeed..
    I also wasn’t sure if they were protesting the guy who inexcusably called 911 over a guy fooling around with a toy gun in the store or were protesting Walmart because they don’t pay $15HR with 10% raises annually for the next 50 years…

    the narratives are confusing and i’m not sure whether today is fast food worker protest day or Free Huey P Newton day or the celebration of Cuba’s victory over the US (bittersweet though it may be to some like Sean Penn to *sniff* know that Hugo Chavez never lived to see it) or just some anti fracking people on their way to someplace called North Dakota who stopped to cross pollinate.

    The President was recently speaking about having created a ton of new jobs, but there sure are a lot of folks milling around and bellowing about only God knows what all during the work day

    steveg (794291)

  42. SEK must be running out of daft activist freshman girls… in his classes I mean.
    Is he still at UC Irvine?
    Irvine seems to have changed a lot since they traded all the strawberry fields for idiots with useless fields of study.

    steveg (794291)

  43. Speaking of racist police cruisers, I want one.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYIJpzo2RVY

    Crown Victoria on Baby Lions Back

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFwPXEeJ3aI

    Crown Vic on Hell’s Revenge- Moab, Utah

    They make lift kits for Crown Vics. You see donks all the time, with the 22″ rims. But I’m thinking Super Swampers. I’m also thinking ebay police interceptor, plus an ARB air locker in the rear, a blower, JBA headers and a good exhaust (thanks, Mustang guys for funding the R&D) and I can bring my racisty racism to new, previously undefiled portions of native Amerikkka.

    With just a little more ground clearance and better traction I can run over the indigenous in new, unexplored territory! Maybe I can also deforest a continent while slaughtering an entire species into extinction for dinner, to cap off the day.

    Steve57 (98542d)

  44. signing off.
    The past five hours have featured wind speeds in the 50 1n 60’s with gusts as high as 86mph.
    I am shocked the lights are still on. I live on the crest of a little ridge where the wind comes flying down canyon, hits the ridge and goes into this weird updraft, downdraft thing… which in pratical terms means that come sunrise I may have to claim the first Blue Recycling bin I see as mine, also will be hoping the coyotes drag off as much trash from my brown container as possible and hopefully die from ingesting the remnants of California’s last plastic bag,
    The green greenwaste container will be the easiest unless it caught a gust and is lodged in a tree… in which case repeat strategy for blue container.
    Neighbors are starting to write their names on the cans…
    Oh. Can’t wait until next year when we get a 4th container… a yellow food waste bin

    Next time we have a brushfire maybe I’ll drag them all out into the old horse paddock and open the lids so the embers can fly in and they’ll have to give me new ones…

    steveg (794291)

  45. They gonna shut the Christmas tree lot on the corner down on Christmas Eve!

    Probably work, too.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  46. Speaking of meant to do that, what does a lady of a certain age expect to happen when she walks into the path of a reversing vehicle? She got a bonk because she meant to put herself in the way.

    Pretty sure she pushed off to make it seem more violent.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  47. feed the squirrels

    let them know it’s christmastime

    happyfeet (831175)

  48. awhile back i think it was dana what introduced us to the Los Angeles Register

    looks like it didn’t make it – it stopped posting new stuff last week or so

    here’s an article about its troubles

    happyfeet (831175)

  49. Profound: Stand on the front steps of Wal-Mart and declare “we’re gonna shut this place down on Christmas Eve, and they won’t see it coming.”

    Unless one of the employees 10 feet away listens to you. Or someone sees this video.

    Robert C. J. Parry (cdd6a8)

  50. Academy award winning actor run over by cab on a street in New York.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6s-rtAkjKA

    also sundry other actors of lesser note mowed down by taxis, private vehicles, pedestrians, horse carts, and a tree.

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  51. you would think, they would get something right occasionally:

    http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2014/12/21/time-magazine-right-wing-militias/

    narciso (ee1f88)

  52. Truth gets thrown under the bus–or under the police cruiser a lot. Standard lefty operating procedure is all.

    Skeptical Voter (12e67d)

  53. well we know who is behind Raw Story don’t we?

    narciso (ee1f88)

  54. they are chanting “No peace, no justice.” They even got that backwards. Maroons

    quasimodo (97433f)

  55. poor old lady almost broke a hip. Somebody call Al Sharpton or whatever.

    Pious Agnostic (7eb3b0)

  56. Hello.

    Denver Todd (5f001f)

  57. Hello.

    Denver Todd (5f001f)

  58. Daniel Patrick Moynihan often found it necessary to make the point, You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.

    However, the modern anti-American Left now rejects facts (even ones on video tape) in favor of a convenient self-serving narrative. Today, coordinated Groupthink has been elevated to religious conviction. For progressivism’s high priests, Moynihan’s dictum is dead. Facts are now fungible, they either fit the narrative or they’re irrelevant, inappropriate, or even blasphemous. (If so-called facts can’t be forced to fit the narrative they can be ignored or rejected as either overtly racist, sexist, or the delusions of privileged Whites.)

    There are no facts that can’t be twisted, there’s no truth that can’t be denied, there’s only the imperative of advancing the knee-jerk narrative. Creating a public spectacle and chanting the narrative paves the way for ducktalkers on TV. It’s really all that matters.

    Propaganda 101: Deny the facts and control the narrative.

    ropelight (d9043e)

  59. Hey Denver Todd, cut it out.

    SarahW (267b14)

  60. it’s hello hello
    he doan know why it’s goodbye
    cuz he says hello

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  61. cuz you look just like a commie
    an’ you might just be a member, baby
    get outta Denver, baby, get outta Denver, baby, go GO!!!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  62. He is one stupid lookin’ “dude.” I love his smirk and head tilt.

    Jack Klompus (b76262)

  63. Oh, there will be peace alright, and empty streets. Wait for it.

    DNF (1f3f17)

  64. 58. …However, the modern anti-American Left now rejects facts (even ones on video tape) in favor of a convenient self-serving narrative. Today, coordinated Groupthink has been elevated to religious conviction. For progressivism’s high priests, Moynihan’s dictum is dead. Facts are now fungible, they either fit the narrative or they’re irrelevant, inappropriate, or even blasphemous. (If so-called facts can’t be forced to fit the narrative they can be ignored or rejected as either overtly racist, sexist, or the delusions of privileged Whites.)…

    ropelight (d9043e) — 12/22/2014 @ 7:57 am

    You reveal yourself, reactionary lackey dog of the capitalist imperialists! You are bitterly clinging to bourgeois concepts of truth. We have something better; revolutionary progressive truth.

    The revolution is truth! Whatever serves the cause of the revolution is therefore also truth, and whatever interferes with bringing about the revolution is therefore a lie.

    You must be reeducated to eliminate your archaic, classist obsession with ideas such as “objective facts.” Anyone who believes in objective facts and impartial justice is an enemy of social justice. It is in conflict with socialist morality, comrade. And an enemy of social justice is an enemy of the people.

    Repent, comrade! Adopt the party-approved new and improved current truth. Do not continue to wallow in expired truth. Do not force us to airbrush you from the pages of history, comrade.

    http://www.prageruniversity.com/Political-Science/What-is-Social-Justice.html#.VJhLOAIAA

    “Social Justice” is a term you hear almost every day. But did you ever hear anybody define what it actually means? Jonah Goldberg of the American Enterprise Institute tries to pin this catchall phrase to the wall. In doing so, he exposes the not-so-hidden agenda of those who use it. What sounds so caring and noble turns out to be something very different.

    Steve57 (98542d)

  65. Oh yeah. SEK. Still a piece of work.

    Dustin (2a8be7)

  66. So’s a cow-pie.

    askeptic (efcf22)

  67. George Orwell’s words of wisdom ring as true today as they did in his time.

    In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

    ropelight (857bcb)


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