We still know very little about the shooting in Minneapolis, yet there is jumping to conclusions. Admirably, Grim is not. I'm a bit of a broken record - I recall saying this about Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin as well. But that's rather the point, because those are two incidents where the public still believes untrue versions which they picked up in the first few minutes of hearing about it.
It seems to all of us that social media has made these leaps more likely, yet I wonder if that is actually true. Human nature abhors an explanatory vacuum, and that is likely true throughout history and prehistory. I doubt that we lived less by rumors and lies a century or a millennium ago.
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