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Maybe I'm overly empathetic here because my partner works in a psych unit, but it seems pretty misguided to blast a probable mentally ill man's name & face out
by ahelwer 6y ago
Maybe I'm overly empathetic here because my partner works in a psych unit, but it seems pretty misguided to blast a probable mentally ill man's name & face out to the public in this way.
- alasdair_ 6y agoI thought the same thing.
- nkozyra 6y agoPublicly shaming people charged with a crime is SOP. Even if they're cleared you've got Google preserving mug shots and newspaper articles for years. Granted, I think it qualifies as "news," but I've always thought it was handled poorly by all involved and largely makes "innocent until proven guilty" irrelevant in practice.
- content_sesh 6y agoAgreed. There's unfortunately been a lot of wild accusations online about who's starting fires and why. But that's not a good reason to plaster his name, age, and face all over the article