California fires: Sheriff rips conservative media on 'crazy' arrest rumor

[SummerMadness]

California fires: Sheriff rips conservative media on 'crazy' arrest rumor

Conservative media sites on Tuesday attempted to link the Sunday arrest of a Latino man on suspicion of arson in Sonoma to the massive, deadly cluster of wildfires burning in California’s wine country.

But Breitbart News and InfoWars offered no evidence to link the man’s arrest to the fires and their accounts of the man’s arrest were disputed the same day by Sonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano.

Crum said the only questions Breitbart News and InfoWars asked were about Gonzalez's ethnicity and whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement had placed a detainer on him, which would hold him for an additional 48 hours at the jail.

 

[Hank77]

It didn't surprise me that Info Wars would do this but I didn't think that Breitbart would post something so easily debunked, they're slipping. Sarah Palin, tweeted the lie, too.
Sarah Palin on Twitter
ICE Detainer Issued for Suspected Wine Country Arsonist in Sonoma Jail - Breitbart
ICE Director: Suspected Wine Country Arsonist Is Illegal Alien Mexican National - Breitbart

 

[SummerMadness]

This reminds of the knockout game hysteria spread by conservative media a few years ago. I find it odd that they are so intent on making Latino immigrants look like criminals when they are less likely to commit crimes (which makes sense, that can get you deported).

 

[iluvatar5150]

It didn't surprise me that Info Wars would do this but I didn't think that Breitbart would post something so easily debunked, they're slipping. Sarah Palin, tweeted the lie, too.
Sarah Palin on Twitter
ICE Detainer Issued for Suspected Wine Country Arsonist in Sonoma Jail - Breitbart
ICE Director: Suspected Wine Country Arsonist Is Illegal Alien Mexican National - Breitbart

Breitbart is as much a racist dumpster fire as any of them. They're not "slipping " - they know exactly what they're doing.