Post #680662 by Hale Tiki on Mon, Jun 3, 2013 7:03 PM

On 2013-06-03 12:28, Tiki Kaimuki wrote:

You mean like posting a picture of two people of color who might or might not have stolen something?
Maybe they did, maybe they didn't, either way their picture seems to be getting splashed here and on Facebook. Not to mention some of the thinly veiled racial comments.
A good way to handle it would have been to take a credit card and then after the fact contact the police and file a report. This is just an internet lynch mob, plain and simple.

Did you actually read any of the postings here? Or on Facebook? The only thing that could be even slightly racially motivated was the one guy that says, "He looks like he has a record." Which is pushing it. Or it could have meant he looked like a scumbag. I'm not saying he does, but the person who said that may have been thinking it.

Other than that, you're reaching. There is credible evidence that it was those two people, and not because they're people of color, but because of suspicious behavior, and the fact that they were the last ones seen with it. No one from Forbidden Island said they stole it. Wanted for questioning was the most damning statement, and if something of yours was stolen, I'm sure that you would want to talk to the last person that had it. It's a perfectly reasonable request, and people like you have blown things out of proportion.

It sucks that it was stolen, but don't cry racist. Nothing FI did or said is racially motivated. If FI notifies the police, do you know what the police are going to do? Question the last people seen with it.