How Twitter May Have Helped Track Down Suspects in a Hate Crime
September 17, 2014 6:54 AM   Subscribe

On September 16, 2014 the Philadelphia Police released surveillance video of the suspects accused of a hate crime on the 1600 block of Chancellor Street. Within hours, they were possibly ID'd. The story is developing, so as of this writing police have not made any arrests or released names.

The surveillance camera video.

Interview with victims.
posted by sixpack (4 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Interesting crowdsourced twist, but given the refrain that its early in the process, feels like maybe it'd be better to give this a few days and let the story develop a little more and consider a post once that's happened. -- cortex



 
Will White Leaders ever take a stand against violence committed by whites ?
posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 6:55 AM on September 17, 2014 [9 favorites]


I was the initial tweet from Gregg Bennett, but he didn't explain how he got the restaurant photo until after I went to bed. Pretty interesting story.
posted by spaltavian at 7:08 AM on September 17, 2014


cf. Atrios please!

yeah, every reddit comment and philly.com comment blamed this on black people immediately.
posted by MisantropicPainforest at 7:08 AM on September 17, 2014


So what is going to happen when one of the sociopathic bands of internet jerks decide to finger someone on their current list of public enemies number one in these sweeps?
posted by winna at 7:09 AM on September 17, 2014


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