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CatWoman

(79,302 posts)
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 10:36 PM Sep 2015

White Texas Guy Lied, Said Black People Vandalized His Truck ‘For Insurance Reasons’ (VIDEO)


White Texas Guy Lied, Said Black People Vandalized His Truck ‘For Insurance Reasons’ (VIDEO)
Author: John Prager September 19, 2015 12:46 pm

Boy, oh, boy this has to be embarrassing for conservative media. Earlier this month, the Right exploded with claims that Black Lives Matter supporters had vandalized a disabled Texas veteran’s precious pickup truck, but it seems that the story had about as much legitimacy as quite literally anything said by Donald Trump during his campaign…which isn’t much.

According to Breitbart, the evil black vandals defaced the truck with “F*ck your flag, your family, your feelings, your faith” graffiti and destroyed the inside of the vehicle, which was plastered with pro-police messages previously. It was the perfect story for the Right to just run with.

“Engage me in a dialogue,” the truck’s owner, Scott Lattin, told Fox4 shortly after the evil black people “vandalized” his truck. “Don’t destroy my stuff; it’s the only truck we have and because of this, it’s totaled now…. I firmly believe black lives matter, white lives matter, police lives matter. Yes, absolutely.”

“They tore off our glove box,” said Lattin’s 18-year-old son, Jason, who says he dreams of becoming a police officer. “They took our laptop, our scanner and ripped our seats.” After right-wing slopbucket Breitbart reported on this horrific attack against Lattin, support from readers poured in, as did donations. A GoFundMe campaign (now removed) was set up in the Lattin family’s name, with more than $8,000 in donations raised to fix the nice, white family’s truck. The Right was furious about the “crime”:

On Friday, the outspoken anti-equality, pro-police conservative hero was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of filing a false police report, which Whitney Police Chief Chris Bentley called “very disturbing.” Lattin told Fox4 that the allegations against him are “absolutely not true,” but his arrest warrant notes that Lattin admitted to damaging his own truck “for insurance reasons.”

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/09/19/white-texas-guy-lied-said-black-people-vandalized-his-truck-for-insurance-reasons-video/
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White Texas Guy Lied, Said Black People Vandalized His Truck ‘For Insurance Reasons’ (VIDEO) (Original Post) CatWoman Sep 2015 OP
“F*ck your flag, your family, your feelings, your faith” the phrasing...... virtualobserver Sep 2015 #1
Yep shenmue Sep 2015 #3
OOPS Omaha Steve Sep 2015 #2
kick for visibility CatWoman Sep 2015 #4
I'm sure Fox News is reporting this turn of events vigorously, right? marmar Sep 2015 #5
Thanks Obama Glassunion Sep 2015 #6
LOL CatWoman Sep 2015 #7
 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
1. “F*ck your flag, your family, your feelings, your faith” the phrasing......
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 10:41 PM
Sep 2015

sounds like the wording that Mike Huckabee would use.(except fot the F*ck)....that was the first clue that this was bullshit/

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)
6. Thanks Obama
Mon Sep 21, 2015, 12:36 PM
Sep 2015

I'm sure the Lattin family are actually Liberal plants that have done this to further Obama's racial divide in this country. You see this family is not a group of ultra conservatives, blaming the black man for the crimes committed against them. They are instead, a group from the radical left who pretended to be the ultra right, so they could blame the black left and intentionally leave enough clues so they could be caught to make the conservatives look bad for lying.

The plot thickens!

- for those who's meters are broken.

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