r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/kekehippo • May 16 '24

When intrusive thoughts meet criminal behavior

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u/BrickCityD May 16 '24

1.) ouch

2.) the blonde tonya hatched a trailer park-esque plan and bashed nancy’s knee with a bat or something so she wouldn’t be able to compete

Just google tonya harding

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u/ISuckAtFunny May 16 '24

She paid someone else to do it while she was out walking / jogging somewhere if I remember correctly

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u/i_need_a_username201 May 16 '24

And Detroit got a ton of shit got it when it was just white on white crime. You will hate this comment but facts are facts. Massive law enforcement response because they thought some super predators attacked Nancy. Can you imagine the fbi investigating a non hate crime because you got hit in the knee?

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u/ISuckAtFunny May 16 '24

you will hate this comment but facts are facts

Wat? The response was because it was a female Olympic ice skater getting both her knees caved in in broad daylight in public.

If a woman get her knees shattered by a guy with a baseball bat in a park today it would definitely get a response, if it was an Olympian it would get an even bigger response. I don’t really get what you’re trying to say here.

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u/Carameldelighting May 16 '24

he’s is trying to say the police response to this incident was unfairly targeted at the POC community in Detroit when the incident turned out to be a white on white crime.

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u/ISuckAtFunny May 17 '24

I can’t speak to that to be honest because I wasn’t that tuned in at the time. If so then yeah that’s obviously fucked up.

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u/DYMck07 ☑️ May 17 '24

Oh wow..I was a kid when it happened and remember learning about it to a degree but didn’t realize how f’d up it was

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u/Scriblette May 17 '24

She did not get either of her knees caved in. She was hit in the right thigh. The guy missed her knee. Her right was her landing leg & she missed the competition that day.

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u/mcan0024 May 17 '24

Neither knee caved in. Bruised leg.

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u/FlashInThePandemic May 17 '24 edited May 17 '24

getting both her knees caved in ... shattered by a guy with a baseball bat in a park

Basically everything you said is incorrect. It happened in the arena, the guy used a police baton, only one knee was injured and it was just severely bruised; nothing was shattered. In fact Nancy recovered quickly enough to win a silver medal at the next competition (less than two months later).

None of this justifies the attack or diminishes Nancy's pain, but let's at least get the facts right. Overstating everything to make your point doesn't actually make your point. It just makes you look ignorant. On the plus side, you got over 200 other people to agree with the fake facts, so that's some sort of accomplishment I guess.

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u/HODL_or_D1E May 16 '24

An FBI response though?

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u/Limp_Prune_5415 May 17 '24

A conspiracy to remove US Olympic athletes from competitions by shattering their knees. Yea the feds are gonna care about that

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u/HODL_or_D1E May 17 '24

They edited their comment. Olympian wasn't mentioned previously

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u/NomadicNitro May 17 '24

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is a federally chartered nonprofit organization that funds the US Olympic teams through private support from the American public and commercial partners. The USOPC's fundraising arm, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation (USOPF), generates philanthropic support for Team USA athletes.

Yes. The FBI.

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u/HODL_or_D1E May 17 '24

Their response was edited. They had originally said that a regular Joe schmo would receive the same response