What is “porch monkey”. It never explains why she say that about Ben Carson. Is she mad at him?

If you google “Ben Carson Monkey” the tweet pops right up.

Why? Because a cop doesn’;t have the right to the benefit of the doubt until the facts come out?...really??? Well that shows what you are made of

Strange....to me he looks like a happy go lucky kid who is having fun at some kind of convention. He doesn’t even look old enough to be a cop yet.

I mean, dude gets slandered for doing his job. They get free reign to say whatever the fuck they want for a day. Always great when you try to victim blame though.

In retrospect yeah, you’d hope so (though unlikely). What a POS.

Also naming the wrongfully accused in the original story in the god damned article title and then erasing his name from the updated title later?

It makes so many of the comments here a lot funnier to sift through, though.

Gawker’s “news” sites are all about jumping to conclusions as are 95% of its commentors. You don’t needs facts or to wait when you already have preconceived notions, sterotypes if you will about certain types of people.

Considering the number of comments in the hours after the original post and the number of comments since the update I doubt that there will be a change in publishing policy. As always seems to be the case, the lie is more popular than the truth. Will Ms Cole-Dixon be fired from what ever job she has and pilloried by…

This should be a separate story not an update surely. Most of the people who read and commented on this won’t come back to it and are out there talking about ‘did you see what happened to Sherita?’ Nothing. Nothing happened. The boyfriend saying I know how she is makes sense now. Run young man or you’ve got a mess of…

This whole site is pretty much kept alive by hot takes, but maybe this one is a wake up call to stop that shit immediately. Nobody looks good here right now. Embarrassing. Take all the seats, y’all.

Turns out you may not want to jump to conlussions, at least not in this case.

Shit, we should all hope that if we got arrested, we’d get an Officer Hubbard (reminder: clean out my damn car)

Wow what an elitist thing to say... I have family in Waxahachie and spent many summers there growing up... It isn’t at all like that, but stay “woke” AKA “ignorant”.

Was her only personal motivation literally just “I hate black people?” Like, this wasn’t to cover up a pregnancy or a secret black boyfriend or something? Because those would be still pretty fucked up explanations, but to concoct this whole wild drama and beat yourself up to burst half-naked into a church just to fuck…

It’s nowhere near enough. It’s a form of hate crime; it can and has resulted in violence toward other members of the group that was being lied about. It should be a felony all day.

Take every rape allegation seriously and investigate it to your full capability. Do not automatically believe every allegation. This is why. Well this and 100+ years of American race relations.

Having sat at the opposite end of a (very full) carriage, as some guy got screamed at by a woman he mistakenly offered his seat to for 10 minutes at full volume, I can see where LtCmndHipster is coming from…

Dear Anna:

You would be glad to see that the Washington Post yesterday published an update in which it confirmed that Ms. Erdely did not talk to the accusers. As you have a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University, I am sure you will remember the introductory classes in which you were told to at least try to…