@EdPaltzik Oh! He kno they names….i have found great pleasure in following your pages since you started helping those three fine young men. Finally someone willing to stand up and hold people accountable. It’s sad how they can create so much division, sold with a false narrative.
Al Sharpton's purported defense to our forthcoming defamation suit:
"I did not know their names."
Oh No, Al. You just said the quiet part out loud. Calamitous unforced (forced?) error.
You see, that's not a defense, Calamity Al. Your audience knew exactly who you were talking about, and you knew exactly who you were talking about. There's no "say their names" requirement in defamation law.
You think you just helped yourself, but what you really did was sink yourself deeper into the legal quicksand.
"I did not know their names" is actually a damning admission, not a defense. You just confirmed what we knew from the beginning, and it's this: before you accused these completely innocent young men of committing crimes and speculated that they were racists, you didn't even bother to learn even the most rudimentary facts about them, such as their names. No inquiry, interest, or investigation.
Textbook Recklessness. Beyond Negligence.
By the way, the three completely innocent young men are named Warren, Jax, and Morgan. And no, they are not racist, as you speculated. They are terrific human beings, if only you had cared to find out.
Thanks for your admission, Calamity Al. You just crashed right through the wooden railing. What will you admit to next?
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The letter also takes direct aim at the image Sharpton repeatedly painted of Nolan going off alone with “three young white male friends.” According to the demand, this was a 30-person boating party spread across three boats. Nolan wasn’t even on the same boat as Warren, Jax OR Morgan on the trip out to Horn Island. Nolan was aboard the Triton with eight other friends, Morgan was aboard the Palm Beach with three others, and Warren and Jax were aboard the Tideline with 15 others.
The attorneys accuse Sharpton of conducting essentially no meaningful investigation before making these accusations, including failing to even visit Horn Island.
“Nonetheless, emboldened by decades of unaccountability, you consider yourself untouchable, with a green light to peddle your abhorrent and damaging lies as you stand atop the gilded soapbox which you have fashioned into a throne.”
They compare his alleged conduct to “carnival barkers, elixir salesmen, and hucksters who preyed upon the gullible and naïve.” They then tell him even those hucksters would find his “uniquely potent snake venom too much to stomach.”
And finally:
“You are a human circus.”
According to the demand, Warren saw Nolan at approximately 3:00 PM, alive and well, wading in the water with a young woman. Later, Warren, Jax, Morgan and the larger group departed Horn Island. The attorneys state Nolan was alive when they left and that multiple people told Nolan to get on the boat, but Nolan chose to remain behind.
Later that night, Warren began communicating with Nolan’s mother, Christine Wells, and the Coast Guard. (You can see the text messages I released a few days ago). The letter says Warren and Christine were exchanging text messages beginning at approximately 11:15 PM while Warren was also communicating with the Coast Guard. Those text messages, according to the attorneys, have already been released to members of the media.
According to the demand, Nolan’s phone was not secretly being hidden by Warren, Jax or Morgan. Just after midnight on July 5, Jayvon Williams’ mother arrived at Jax’s home with a group of people demanding Nolan’s phone and information about his whereabouts. A female friend retrieved Nolan’s phone from Wyatt Pyron’s truck and handed it to Jayvon’s mother. The attorneys repeatedly state Warren, Jax and Morgan never so much as touched the device.
The keys? According to the letter, Nolan had left them sitting on top of a video game console in Jax’s bedroom. When Nolan’s stepfather came looking for them, Jax searched for them, located them and handed them over. The attorneys say the group accompanying Nolan’s stepfather then refused to leave Jax’s property and became disruptive, eventually causing Jax and his brother to call 911. Ocean Springs Police responded.
And the following morning, Warren and Jax went BACK to Horn Island to search for Nolan. According to the demand, at approximately 10:30 AM on July 5, Warren, Jax and several others returned by boat. That search was subsequently joined by Mississippi Department of Marine Resources units, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and additional private vessels.
Legally, the attorneys argue Sharpton’s statements effectively accused these young men of extraordinarily serious crimes, including murder, hindering prosecution in the first degree and tampering with physical evidence. They argue his words portrayed Warren, Jax and Morgan as people colluding to hide evidence at best and murderers at worst.
They call the damage a “grotesque circus of defamation.”
@Simone_Biles You talk about empathy and respect yet you didn’t show any. Way to back the bus up and try to clear your image. Always remember to re read what you’re about to post. It woulda saved you the public embarrassment
@GeneSteratore Yea, just like the one against Az when they hit the Texas receiver on the interception. Let’s report all of the facts, not just a one side agenda Gene lol