Barney Google wrote:Have you ever been involved in a tragedy like this Westside?
There is a set protocol that officials take...family is kept informed far more closely than media or the general public.
When you say "we owe it to baby Hailey to find out what really happened and make sure she and her daddy get justice"...
do you actually think anyone is going to let this crime drop?
No one is going to do that.
Try, for just a moment, to put yourself in this family's boots...a public free-for-all is just adding to the pain.
For God's sake have some compassion.
Without question everyone wants answers. Hashing it out and judging and pointing fingers publically is just plain rude.
Pardon me but I think it's criminal for people to be putting the family and circumstances under the microscope to
dissect for their own personal satisfaction. The truth will eventually come forth and will be reported.
No matter what happens our World is a lesser place for the loss of Hailey and her father.
Again, I suggest you consider how you would feel if people were doing the same
thing to you and your family if similar circumstances happened to you.
Justice will be served...dignity for those that are grieving needs to be respected.
I'm done...if people think it is okay to carry on with this public judging and speculating then go for it...
this whole conversation is sickening to me...I have no respect for anyone who continues on with this horrid display of
insensitivity.
Emotional responses like this one is useless in these conversations, and always misplaced.
This is not the first time that the court of public opinion (ie. the Internet) has become involved in something, and very rarely are those of you taking a stand against it.
These "racial" shootings in the US, especially the ones that were deemed to be justified, were already judged wrongly by the people before the investigations were done. This applies to so many of the news articles now - Cecil the Lion was irrelevant before he was killed and the dentist is likely innocent, if justice actually mattered. There are incredible amounts of "shame first, truth later" cases on the internet, and it's this infatuation with public justice that forces the media to dig up every single bit of public and private information that they can, in every news story that they can.
The media does it because the people want it. This is essentially the burning witches of the 21st Century, and it is what it is.
I can appreciate your frustration, but may your opposition be consistent and against all public shaming going forward.
westside105 wrote:so they found Mr Blanchette at 11am Monday morning and then issued the Amber Alert at 2:14pm, it was not issued right away because the police were conducting a search first...so nobody phoned the mother during that time period and search just to be sure she didn't have the baby ??? ok then
It could be more complicated than that, or less complicated, depending what actually happened.
If you're searching a house where a murder had just occurred, it could have been easy to determine who was living there at the time, and how recently they were there. They could have likely determined that the kid was there hours before, and when the incident in question is a homicide, it's very likely worth getting the Amber Alert out to the media sooner rather than later.
Remember, particularly as it relates to an Amber Alert, the police aren't going to have finished their entire investigation and have answers to all of the questions before issuing one. Time is very important in missing children, as it's been shown that the longer a child is missing, the less chance of discovering them alive, so it's important for them to only gather the basic information, check probabilities, and issue the Amber Alert. Even if she was with her mother, it would probably still be worth issuing an Amber Alert if they deemed she went missing from the scene of a stabbing.