Kenosha mass shooter's lawyer says Facebook condemned Richard Jewell in 1996

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Lin Wood @LLinWood

On July 27. 1996, bomb exploded in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, killing 1 & injuring 110.

Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook declared Richard Jewell to be a “mass murderer.”

Efforts to raise money for Jewell’s defense & family were banned on social media.

Richard was innocent.

9:15 AM · Sep 4, 2020

Screenie since he's being dragged on Twitter over it:

Link to tweet

Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey

Hahahahaha holy shit

9:43 AM · Sep 5, 2020

The replies are priceless.

[wishstar]

1. Facebook was not even in existence until about 8 years after that Atlanta bombing

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Zuck was 12 in 1996

[Norbert]

3. His defense is going down in flames on Twitter.

[niyad]

4. This is from The Onion, yes?????? PlEASE tell me that this is from The Onion!

[Iliyah]

5. The lawyer is whacked . . .

he is also promoting a civil war.

[intrepidity]

6. Um, trying to be ironic

May disagree with the point, but don't mistake the method

[NurseJackie]

7. Ridiculous.

[Renew Deal]

8. It looks like this is an attempt to prod Facebook censors.

[GemDigger]

9. Warning: Do not go to this dorks twitter page.

The man is dangerous and inciting the holy rollers.

[Cosmo Blues]

10. He was a fucking bigot

My sympathies are not with Richard Jewell. And certainly not with Kyle, his parents must be works of art also

[Sympthsical]

12. Richard Jewell was a hero

It is well-known he was railroaded by the media and the FBI, an interesting harbinger for what social media would someday become.

Odd statement there.

[Cosmo Blues]

13. It's sad a bigot is a hero to you

The Confederate flag in the back window of his pickup truck said it all for me

[Sympthsical]

15. Ohhhh. I see. We're talking about two different people

The Richard Jewell being referenced in the tweet saved lives during the 1996 Olympic Park bombing. He was then vilified in the media as a suspect. It was awful. They ruined his life after he saved many.

Not the same person as the white supremacist.

The hero Jewell died back in 2007.

I was so confused by your initial statement. Now it makes sense. I think you’re thinking of Richard Spencer?

[Cosmo Blues]

19. Nope same one

Yeah I've heard about the movie don't care the guy did his job but was still a bigot

[Sympthsical]

23. Oh who cares

I googled, and the only thing I could find was that he had a Georgia state flag on his license plate, and that the media featured it prominently while they were tearing his life down.

He saved a lot of lives. He was wrongfully persecuted to an insane degree. He died young.

But a flag is your final word on him?

Could not care less about that kind of short-sighted purity.

[Cosmo Blues]

24. I didn't care about the license plate

And yeah any time any place someone displays the Confederate Battle Flag I think it is they're a bigot you can go buy a dramatized movie if you wish

[Polybius]

16. It was a different time

Having a Confederate flag in 1996 is not the same as having one in 2020. We know better now.

[Cosmo Blues]

20. Same flag same sentiments

I don't know how old you are or where you're from but you're just wrong

[Dennis Donovan]

25. We're a friendly bunch here on the DU

We respectfully disagree *without* resorting to personal attacks.

Welcome to DU.

[Cosmo Blues]

26. Thank you for the welcome

I'm usually as polite as can be but if you can't tell someone you think they are wrong, that's going a little bit too far don't you think?

[Dennis Donovan]

27. "I don't know how old you are or where you're from"

Hmm... you insulted them a little bit, IMO.

[obamanut2012]

18. Richard Jewell saved many, many people from death or grievous injury

Your edgelord comments about him are laughable.

Your comparing Jewell and Rittenhouse is also laughable, as well as nonsensical.

[Cosmo Blues]

22. I didn't compare them

Rumor has it he did his job, that's about the only good thing I'm going to say about the bigot

[irisblue]

11. The googles sez the book of faces started in Feb 2004.

That guys whole twitter feed is weird as hell

[Mariana]

14. As I recall, it was the police and the FBI who declared Richard Jewell to be guilty

when they didn't have the slightest shred of evidence that he was responsible for the bombing.

Given that Mr. Wood's client is an enthusiastic supporter of the police, I suspect he would have been on their side in this, and not Richard Jewell's.

[icymist]

17. Thirteen year old Mark Zuckerburg was unavailable for comment.

That's a million dollar defense is it?

[spanone]

21. ...and that had squat to do with your murdering client