Lol at "finally". Your complaint is the
complete opposite of the Valdosta local's complaints
I've been reading far too many Valdosta Topix threads for the last few days
The most common gripe from those using such words as "knee grow" is that Kendrick's Dad has been naming names & making accusations of murder from day one & he should SHUT THE FUCK UP (to put it more politely than the racially affronted posters).
I notice it's a UK publication running the first mention of the bullying in the media?? We don't really think Mr Johnson went all this time, & sat in the heat through all that protesting without ever attempting to share these details with local media? If anyone does think that? Don't. The story in that article is pretty much what I read on topix & have been fruitlessly searching for over the last few days. It's been circulating for a long time & according to locals it's repeated at every opportunity - they know because they're near the rallies or know someone who was & it gets around town on the grapevine.
We don't hear it til someone finds it on topix or it's published by the media. For some reason, in this case, that didn't happen until overseas media picked up the story.
& before I'm mistaken for someone who's firmly in the "all the evidence points to murder" camp, the red stuff on those grey/brown?? sneakers really looks like paint to me (- although there's also a finer spray/mark that looks iffier, which is exactly why they should've bagged everything, it's not like they found him in a squat with 4ft of garbage on the floors)
But then again ...
Ignore the autopsies, ignore the stupid stories about the sheriff'son etcetc, ignore all of it & focus on this -
We still haven't had an explanation for the non-saturated shoe. That one detail, far more than any autopsy finding, is going to be the biggest problem LE has. The pathology sites I posted earlier (who had extensive experience with darker skin pigment) made it pretty clear that differentiating between post-mortem staining/lividity & peri-mortem bruising is difficult in all patients, but moreso in those with darker skin. In some instances it's not possible to tell the difference. There is research into previously unknown changes that are present only in bruising, but it's possible there'll never be a real answer in this case.
The shoes are a different matter though.
If there was no body fluid-saturated shoe at the scene, the scenario LE propose is impossible - you guys do get that don't you?
Even if Kendrick had the tiny feet of an exceptionally delicate little girl, his shoes could
not have been beneath him in a space with a 14.5 inch diameter without being saturated by blood, body fluids & vomit. Even if the shoe/s magically remained pristine within the confined space beneath Kendrick & the 14.5 inch diameter floor inside the mat, (& they
couldn't, so this is hypothetical,), they should've had splashes of fluids hit them when the mat was moved & "blood, vomit & dreadlocks splashed out".
Given the description of what happened when the mat was moved, we could even expect to see "wipe marks" if his saturated dreadlocks came into contact with the shoe/s as everything fell out. It beggars belief that the shoe in the pic came through unscathed not once, but twice (1.sitting under KJ for hours 2. when the mat was moved & everything splashed) & it destoys the entire scenario.
- if it's clean, it wasn't beneath him.
- if it wasn't beneath him, he can't have been reaching for it.
- if he wasn't reaching for it he had no reason to be in the mat voluntarily.
The rest of the story doesn't swing me either way, but this has got me stuck. I know there's quite a few people who are adamant LE got it right & I'm happy to join you if this clean shoe can be explained. So far, as far as I can see, the only way that shoe doesn't destroy the LE scenario is if there's a photo of the other shoe from that pair & it
is saturated??