Relax guys! He said journalists. You’re safe. ;)

*Looks at Ryan Felton’s past 10 articles*

No, he’s right. The problem with modern ‘news’ is, it’s whatever the highest bidder wants it to be, not actual unbiased reporting of the facts.

I watched it too, the whole thing. Not only was there no wrong doing on the trooper’s part, but he was unfailingly polite and went out of his way to be decent to her. He allowed her to change her shoes for the field sobriety test, he allowed her to speak to her fiance at the scene to coordinate child care, he…

Maybe the writers of The Root, and its editors, should try to find the proper tone of indignation for news stories.

Hey The Root, where is the new hashtag #Blacklies in your articles

Once the video was released, and her own attorney apologized to the officer and denounced the false accusations, this ceased to be about anything other than someone cynically exploiting and undermining the actual problem that exists.

Fuck Lee Merrit and fuck her lying, drunk driving ass. And fuck anyone who instead of just admitting they were wrong on this one cop out with “well women and Black women do get sexually assaulted by cops.” No shit, but it doesn’t make this sort of bullshit right. Everyone was already convinced the cop was guilty and…

So after the video shows that Sherita was a liar and The Root helped to perpetuate the lies, this is how you apologize for your horrible reporting?

ABANDON HIS PUBLIC?

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…

I am sure The Root and all its readers will offer an apology to Officer Hubbard.

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.

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

Not every one of these situations is the next big civil rights violation. This just reeks a bit too much of people trying to cash in on all of the ongoing outrage of people actually being discriminated against.

“Based on not a fucking thing.”

So you don’t know. But you’re talking like you know.

“Calling the police on, and gunning for the arrest of, three white dudes will never be a life-threatening act the same way it is for Black women and other women of color. It’s not even close. Not reasonable to pretend so.”

“Anyone who’s worked service knows there’s a such thing as a locked door.”