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Falsely Identified "Boston Bombing" Suspect Found Dead
The amateur detective sleuths on 4Chan, Reddit and other social sites were so eager to demonstrate their investigative prowess in the information vacuum days following the Boston Bombing, they managed to identify virtually everyone who appeared even slightly tanned and/or had a backpack as a potential suspect. Sadly, the game, as well-meaning as it may have been, just turned lethal for one of the people who were falsely identified, as NBC just confirmed that Sunil Tripathi, 22, a former student at Brown University has been found dead in the Providence River.
From NBC's twitter feed:
CONFIRMED: Brown University student falsely identified as Boston bombing suspect found dead in Providence River
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 25, 2013
Previously from the Boston Globe:
Police in Providence pulled a man’s body from the Providence River on Tuesday, and authorities said it is “very possible” that it is Sunil Tripathi, 22, a former Brown University student who has been missing since mid-March.
Providence police Lieutenant Joseph Donnelly said Tuesday night that “it’s very, very possible” that the body could be Tripathi’s, but also said authorities will not know for sure until the medical examiner’s office in Providence identifies the body Wednesday morning. Donnelly said Tripathi’s family has not been notified of the body’s recovery.
Donnelly said the body was found in the river behind the Wyndham Garden Providence Hotel at around 6 p.m. The coach of Brown’s rowing team, which practices in that area, saw the body floating in the water and called police, Donnelly said.
Tripathi was last seen in his apartment on Angell Street in Providence around 11 a.m. on March 16.
And more:
Reddit forum apologized to Tripathi's family for naming him as the suspect accused of setting off a series of explosions near the marathon's finish line. "I'd like to extend the deepest apologies to the family of Sunil Tripathi for any part we may have had in relaying what has turned out to be faulty information," the moderator wrote in a statement. "We cannot begin to know what you're going through and for that we are truly sorry.
A woman who went to high school with Tripathi wrongfully named him as one of the men wanted by the FBI. "Several users, twitter users, and other sources had heard him identified as the suspect and believed it to be confirmed," the statement continued. "We were mistaken."
Reddit's general manager, Erik Martin, also apologized to the family.
The accusation added Tripathi to a list of others mistaken for the suspects, or targeted, based on their skin color. Last week, a Bangladeshi man from the Bronx was beaten out of retaliation for the marathon attack, which he had nothing to do with.
Perhaps it is time to reevaluate the crowdsourced approach to "solving" crimes? Perhaps it is also time to remember the whole "innocent until proven guilty" saying, as meaningless as it may be in our day and age.
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"Perhaps it is time to reevaluate the crowdsourced approach to "solving" crimes?"
does that apply to economic crimes as well?
I don't understand how someone missing since mid-March is just found in a river ~45 days later.
That's some fine police work there, Lou.
~45 days is the mean waiting time period for a CIA appoinment .
Wasn't this kid the one who left a suicide note, and disappeared from his dorm a month ago? He was falsely identified as "suspect 2" if i remember correctly. The FBI asked people to try to identify the people. I don't think these "ametuer detectives" are to blame at all.
Yay...The Jews are winning!
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING
Last time I did that I got slapped, honey.
Just wait until they have more of the latest 360* view high def drones flying over America that can record the movements of everyone in a city and playback later.
I give you the ARGUS-IS
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/06/argus_is_could_the_pe...
Police in Providence pulled a man’s body from the Providence River on Tuesday, and authorities said it is “very possible” that it is Sunil Tripathi, 22, a former Brown University student who has been missing since mid-March.
What. The. Hell?
When was the bombing?
I wonder: Does it appear he was first run over by a (police) car before being dumped into the river?
This poor, simple, and innocent guy got a bad, bad case of "finding out who your friends really are" and his head couldn't take it. Well. Lets face it. Like Oppenheimer said, "Now we are all Sons of Bitches."
Thanks FUCKING SOCIAL MEDIA. The SCOURGE of COMPUTING. FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING REDDIT PRICKS. AND MARK ZUCKERBERG, YOU'RE A FUCKLESS LOSER TOO. EAT SHIT AND DIE.
Someday we'll all have our 15 MINUTES of FAME. LIKE IT OR NOT.
Gee, Tyler. Since you imply that he checked out due to being falsely fingered by his buddies on 4chan, I am sure you can now let us all know the coroner results and a detailed timeline of this individual during the month between the date he was labled "missing" and the day of the Marathon. While you're at, fill us all in on exactly wtf thos Craft contractors were doing with (and then without) backpacks, during a (live) drill.
This is reddit's fault?
Definite suicide. There was a note. And he shot himself in the head 6 times.
Wait a second! I see what you're doing there.
with a bolt action rifle...
Confirmation bias in identifying people?
Dart throwing monkeys at their finest.
You would have to check for pursuit tire tread markings.
Ssssshhhhhhh, it's the new math to keep the narrative going. Move along. Kim Kardashian has something for us all to see. Wait, look, a squirrel.
we can look forward to previously unreleased photos showing kim jong, the riddler and bigfoot were all there too, acting all suspicious.
yes, there was a bombing /sarc
hey...see something say something....right johnathon napolitano
Tragic. Too young to die and not old enough to really know how to rock and roll.
Hey the government said, Jump" and everyone jumped. On that basis, no one is at fault.
Sheeple passed with flying colors and are ready for the next government mandated order.
Her real name is Incompitano
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING
In Yiddish?
And even if these amateur sleuths got it wrong, at least they act as an independent check against the finger-pointing of big brother.
Absolutely. "time for Zero Hedge to step in the breech and inform on all their contributors"? Hmmm. Hiding something that requires Government assistance Tylers Durden?
Again, he's been dead for weeks.
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/211665/man-falsely-idd-as-boston-bombing-suspect-found-dead/
The suicide had nothing to with reddit.
"The amateur detective sleuths on 4Chan, Reddit and other social sites were so eager to demonstrate their investigative prowess in the information vacuum days following the Boston Bombing, they managed to identify virtually everyone who appeared even slightly tanned and/or had a backpack as a potential suspect. Sadly, the game, as well-meaning as it may have been, just turned lethal for one of the people who were falsely identified"
You make it sound as if his false identification had something to do with Reddit and 4chan's attempts to investigate the photos. It had nothing to do with that. You want us to just take what we're told as fact and not question it? Good on these people for getting photos together and getting the public a different side of the story. And shame on you ZH for putting this garbage misleading article out. Take a look in the mirror Tyler.
The NY Post's massive fuckup is way more interesting to investigate.
... if it was a fuckup at all, and not the purposeful feeding of false info from a law enforcement official.
Exactly. First person of interest in this guys murder is the person who placed him at the scene of the Boston Marathon.
Almost Solvent:
" The NY Post's massive fuckup is way more interesting to investigate. ..."
Corzine; his name is mentioned almost DAILY and EVERYWHERE and he's not been 'found in the river' yet ...If you can't do the being-stabbed-and-tossed-in-the-river, don't do the wearing-a-backpack-and-not-looking-where-everyone-else-is-looking.
So Reddit and 4chan should provide an alternative viewpoint but ZH should not? This is a paradox.
Read a book called "A man who never was " ww2 espionage. A good manual how to fake stuff.
WTF? so who's responsible?
They found Kenneth Trentadue again? Those FBI, nut, nuts.
Fucking bastards in the FBI can rot in hell for it too.
no back pack for me!
Due to Sequestration this is a low cost Islamic burial at sea based on Islamic tradition.
Due to budget cuts - no aircraft carrier was available so the Providence River had to suffice.
Looks like the Francis "go get the <race tag>" Sawyer method doesn't work. Won't he be sad...
that sucks...
but he did have a tan... so probably he would have turned into a terrorist at age 18 anyway...
I don't think anybody even cares anymore if innocent people die by the regime....
That more than sucks. The powers that be have the sheep killing each other now. They must be so proud. Media outlets are very narrow and very scary at this point and all the sheep think they are part of the story and that they have it right. We are a stupid sort.
Today we got a memo from the head office...
EVERYBODY MAY PARTICIPATE INTO A SURVEY SO THEY CAN MEASURE HOW GOOD TOP MANAGEMENT DID
AND TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE RIGHT PEOPLE WORKING IN A COMPANY THAT ONLY NEEDS POSITIVE AND ENTHOUSIATIC PEOPLE
yeah...
to make sure we have the right people....
survey...
I hate lying, but I think I'll write down that this is the greatest company on earth....
damn... that's going to hurt....
PEOPLE JUST GET BRAINWASHED TO SHUT UP, WORK LIKE A DRONE AND SHUT UP!
fuck I hate this company...
For a Belgian, you certainly have American colloquialisms down pat. FWIW, you're one of the ZH-ers with whom I'd like to have a beer. Chimay, in this case.
Belgium has some nice beer too.
sudden it must be survey season... I got one at work too...and of course it claims that we remain completely anonymous but everyone has unique id code to enter when you participate! Prizes are being given out to encourage participation...
my wife got hers....retail
the GC at my former company wasted a week of time/$ trying to find out who submitted the honest survey response.
Answer ze qvestions veerrrry carefully, Mr SuddenDebt....vee haf our eye on you!
I'm not sure you have that right. How long has the kid been dead? What makes you think a civilian did it? If he's been unseen for over a month, what's the real story?
If you only kill they guilty, then how will you get the innocent to fear you?
Obama's regime has stated that young men will be killed in his drone strikes(over there) that probably would have grown up to be jihadist, so it's all good.
Obama's regime has stated that young men will be killed in his drone strikes(over there) that probably would have grown up to be jihadist, so it's all good.
'He was commited suicided.' as the Clintons would put it.
yep, after he drowned himself whil chocking himself in 5 inches of water he decided to take his own life because... because he would have done something wrong anyway.
More misinformation.
He actually died from 8 bullet wounds to the back of the head that occured while cleaning his AR-15. Since the magazine limit is 7 he was guilty anyway
damn... if only he had a small magazine clip... this wouldn't have happened...
Bah! Real terrorists don't need a gun to shoot themselves.
"suicided" ....bitchez NWO style
If he killed himself he would have 2 bullet holes in the back of his head, with a gun that never existed
.... good point... so you're saying he was killed by another "brown" person?
LET'S GO HUNT THEM DOWN!!
WEAPONS FOR SELF DEFENSE ARE FOOLISH BUT GREAT FOR HUNTING!!
that's what Obama said anyway...
Woah, woah, woah WOAH! Didn't a reputable [agendicized] independant [lobby funded] panel rate Clinton with other Democratic Presidents [some dead] as vastly intelligent compared to the quiet intellect stupidity of the Bush's and Republicans et al?
Vince Foster anyone?
a former Brown University student who has been missing since mid-March.
That's what I don't get.
He's been missing since mid-March, but the Boston Marathon wasn't until April 15th. The misidentification was some time after that.
I wonder if the autopsy will show when he died? Before or after the marathon?
I wonder how many photos the FBI uploaded to these same social networks for the sleuths to 'identify'. The theater of the virtual has become actual in the mind of the nonfactual.
the only problem is, WE won't know what the autopsy eventually shows...we will know what they WANT us to know !
so was he in the river when we was supposedly at the race? this is just getting stranger by the second
yup. let's get glenn beck on this one right away !
One less fey, metro, castrati product of the elite farm tean.
Agreed. Pretty sure we're still running a strong surplus of brown men.
What tripped the detectives was the word "Brown", as in Brown University.
Swimmin' with the fishes....
and that is one more reason we need CISPA to stop the plague of internet gossip and opinion
My first thought, exactly. He will be the reason cited as to why any sort of Internet speculation will be illegal. "Leave law enforcement to law enforcement". More will be accomplished through this one death than could have been through years of lobbying and purchasing of votes. And when you believe that many in power believe that the ends justify the means... well, what's one life?
To them it's not even a statistic. At least Stalin acknowledged that one death is a tragedy . . . ;)
Fuck! Vigilantes or suicide? Anyways this is horrible.
Vigilantes or suicide?
- Neither.
or waterboarding?
Muslims don't surf.
Colonel Bill Kilgore
Temporal Vigilantes. They went back in time 5 weeks before the Boston Marathon, killed him, then came forward in time 6 weeks and dumped the body in the river.
Was he dead before the bombing? The article does not say and makes it look like he died after the bombing. Not clear which one is it.
He has been missing since March ~15, and just found dead now. Who knows where he was during that time, and when he died.
and that is how your government disposes of a patsy they don't end up using
The family has not been notified but its ok to tell the rest of the world?
HE!! IT'S NOT THE AUTHORITIES FAULT THOSE PEOPLE AREN'T ON TWITTER OR FACEBOOK!!
He changed his profile status from "normal person" into "ACCIDENTED"
SEE SOMETHING AND SHUT UP ABOUT IT!
Interesting how these suspects keep turning up dead.......
The new legal mantra, 'Innocent until proven suspect.'
The new new legal mantra. "You're all guilty...unless you work for the govt"
Croeus,
What do you want them to do; show up alive and be questioned.
Doubtful this is a suicide.
he does wear a knitted hat... and people who smile tend to kill themselves...
Obama said so...
Did he have 200 bullet holes in him?
Yes......confirms suicide
....and guilt.
where was he from march 16th till april 15th?
something is amiss here.
Guantanamo?
The bombing was April 15th, this kid went missing March 16th....
Every one here is a retard. You can't reason with retards.
I'm starting to think George Noory from Cost to Coast AM runs this site. I think we should blame all of this on ancient aliens.
Don't go into one of George Washingtons posts then man. If you think this is bad, you'll fucking whip a gasket for sure in there.
Has anyone watched the Finding Bigfoot show on Discovery? My guess is that 99.9% of ZH followers are avid watchers.
Bullshit. Many ZHers have pulled the plug on their TVs. You should consider doing the same because it's showing.
Ha ha. Ok. Easy buttons to push around here. Did you get rid of your tooth brush too?
We don't take kindly to no teethbrush round these parts but we have been known to drink a lot of what we call "mouthwash". That should be plenty good enough.
Been alot of these shills on here lately. I wonder if it pays well?
In fact it does pay well. I can do it all while sitting in home room. Made about $400 to $500 in 20 minutes.
Deductive logic and inference. These are things you lack, cave troll. See below for your cerebral ass whooping.
- Man was FORMER student of Brown. [Classic yay or crystal drop out scenario]
- Man disappears March 16th [see above] --> Probably running the streets hustling/pushing etc...
- Man found in river April 25th
- Man hasn't been floating in river for probably more than 3 days.
- Man slightly resembles due to facial structure and skin tone the younger of the two brothers.
- Man is falsely associated with bombings [which have incited irrational feelings of anger and ethnocentricity.]
- Associating with people on drugs and chemically unstable, man's fellow hustlers/pushers are violent and reckless.
- Man's friends kill him from bad information provided by salem witch-hunters.
Ergo, it is not unreasonable to presume that prejudice, a broken society and bigotry contributed to this death.
So what the fuck is your problem RangerRiley? Go eat your own troll snot on a bleached blog you ignorant fuck.
I love that you spent all that time replying to me. Funny.
Apologies. I won't feed the trolls anymore. At least not today unless I get bored again.
Well, it's unreasonable to dismiss one groups prejudices through asserting your own prejudice as reasonable. Prejudice is always reasonable to the person holding it and unreasonable to the guy on the receiving end.
Thanks for that post Maxim. Brilliant. So as far as I can tell, you're talking about talking about talking about talking.
Now that we've straightened that out . . .
I come here for the cookies and milk.
Why are you here?
Snoory Noory was one of the hysterical rumormongers on the night of the bombing screaming that Tripathi was the bomber!!!
...Every one here is a retard. You can't reason with retards.
Hey, Epimenides, is that you?
you're here !
to make money from you...
Yes, let's demonstrate that it's wrong to rush to judgement by rushing to judgement.
If we weren't so darned Islamophobic as a nation, this guy might not have dissappeared a month before we started looking to scapegoat guys who look like him. Or something.
Now I got it! It behoves people who have knowlegde of pending terrorist attacks or who are actually part of the plotting of such attacks to take full advantage of that knowledge by making one's self scarce before said attacks bring the threat of Americans singling you out for punishment, not for what you actually did but for their assumption of your guilt based on how you look. Which is, of course, the greater evil, or something.
I'll have to work on it some more. Seriously, condolences to the family on this tragic outcome. I hope it was some kind of bizzarre accident that killed this guy and not one of our many home-grown terrorists, AKA gangstas in da hood.
The dates you quote are known facts mentioned in the ZH article. Do they help in determining anything?
Until we know the approx date/time of Sunil Tripathi's death, there is no room for speculation.
"Perhaps it is time to reevaluate the crowdsourced approach to "solving" crimes? Perhaps it is also time to remember the whole"innocent until proven guilty" saying, as meaningless as it may be in our day and age."
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So, how do drone attacks by the government fit into that fine moral standard you have there? Have the people executed in those attacks been put on trial, have they been found guilty, was death an appropriate punishment?
All very appropriate questions.
With appropriate answers that don't resound within the status quo until it is too late.
See something, say something? I see too much apathy, and I say it's gonna be the end of us.
The whole "must be first, correct or otherwise" attitude from the Internet era is very damaging to the principle of identifying and reporting facts and truth. Sad days.
drone use is more like shroudsourced solution to solving crimes
Really getting tired of people pontificating one set of standards for them, and another set for everybody else.
it different....
the drone killed those people. It wasn't a real person who did it.
And the pilots are in America and the drones where not in the same timezone.
It's like cheating on you wife when she is in another timezone... than it's not cheating.
same thing.
you clearly don't understand.
I agree 100%. It's like a live video sex chat on-line with a hooker who lives 2000 miles away from you. Why it isn't even sex! Cheating, what cheating? Besides, getting blow-jobs isn't cheating, not even real-live blow jobs, where a real chick is doing the action on your real penis. Only actual penetration is cheatinig, and then it's only cheating if the penetration is done with loving intent- if it's just sex with hookers or one night stands it isn't cheating, no sirree, nope!
Evil old drone.
L.A. cops can shoot up 2 trucks that don't look like the suspect truck. FBI/local cops shoot up a boat with an unarmed man inside. Innocent until the government suspects you on no evidence.
enjoy your police/snitch state fucking muppets of the USSA!!!!
what a cesspool.................................................................
your cesspool aspires to one day be our cesspool.
Those terrorists really hate us for our cesspool-ism we keep in our police state.. Only they can wish we had drones, professionally corrupt politicions, and lots of money to spend on police while having a great propaganda system to fool everyone that we're the best and deserve to be happy.
AnAnusnonymus: Americanilsm Cesspoolistic cessium shows through the cracks of more Americesspoolism as Americanism does.
/chuckle
Hey, after all, American citizenism's nature is eternal. China and the rest of the world comes from U.S. Citizenism. It all started on 1776, after Easter Island was invaded by U.S. Citizenism citizens.
- Signed,
An American citizen.
You have to the include the term "Americanism blobbing up" or some such BS for it to be a good spoof...
The Rhode Island medical examiner's office says a body found in Providence is that of a Brown University student missing since last month.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/body-found-water-missing-brown-student-19040457#.UXlCvrXSbng
..SO IT CAN'T BE!
<sung to the tune 'NYC Boy' by the Pet Shop Boys>
~~~
When you're a Muzz, some days are tough... Lyin on your bed gettin' ID'ed & stuff...
"Donnelly said Tripathi’s family has not been notified of the body’s recovery."
But we are out here giving press speculations...
"Hoodie!"
("red shirt"...in Star Trek parlance)
"they managed to identify virtually everyone who appeared even slightly tanned and/or had a backpack as a potential suspect."
Nothing more than modern day witch-hunts.
what a wonderful country we live in, home of the free?
and land of the knaves..
Going to need new music for that anthem.
The emasulation of AmeriKa is nearly complete.
Re: crowdsourcing
The masses are asses.
Dumbasses
How was this guy a suspect , was his crock-pot missing also ?
No, he had visited Zero Hedge.
D'oh!
Instead of discouraging crowd sourced inquiry how about some credible investigation and reporting? When will the Craft goon with the missing/matching backpack be questioned?
And while I do believe it could be coincidence, I find it a little odd that the elder brother was decked out in a very similar manner to these contractors - namely tan pants, black jacket and black hat.
Yeah, no shit. I'm not a conspiracy theorist; but that didn't smell right. Blackwater military cronies sniffing around with identical equipment touching ear peices . . .
Government: "Meh, better to not draw attention to it."
Me: "Fuck you, government. If my brain could be charted with Japanese candlesticks, Paranoia is up in volume and yield, and I hate paranoia."