We have enough evidence that Somalis are radical. Remember the Tysons Foods incident, where Labor Day was replaced by a Muslim holiday? Those weren't just "Muslims" in general -- they were Somalis. Here's a story from Aug 2008 about the Somalis in Shelbyville, where the Tyson's Food plant is located. A key statement is: "I felt that we had a social powder keg in the making so I began looking into the Somalis and the impact they have had on this community. Since that time, practically every person I have spoken to who have dealings with the refugees did not describe it as a positive experience." Read the story -- it has lots of examples.

I'm putting my money on these types of stories, and not on the so-called "Mulsim talking points". These are primitive people who have no intention of becoming Americans, and it's time we waked up to this fact, and started to take appropriate action.

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Top 10 Refugee-sending countries to the U.S.: 1) Somalia 2) Liberia 3) Laos 4) Sudan 5) Ukraine 6) Caribbean 7) Cuba 8) Ethiopia 9) Iran 10) Moldova

You may be reading more into this than there is.  As a former reporter we would not publish charges until someone is formally charged.  My guess is that is part of what is going on here.  Then I would guess that the broadcast media simply picked up the AP story that was the Star-Trib's story.  They probably never sent anyone to get actual information.  The Pioneer-Press is probably the only other media outlet with the Star-Trib that has a regular police reporter to go down and get the information and either their deadline was different and they suspects were charged, or they may have a different policy.

Yeah, I see your concern. But here is a really important point. They more than likely weren't members of the NRA, so why say anything about them. And besides, Obama has a soft spot in his heart for terrorists, its babies that he wants to protect us from. And clearly these shooters were out of the womb. So there, I've solved the dilemma.
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We weren't allowed to use Present Obama's middle name and we still don't know his real name or origin.

Our new secretary of Homeland security has stopped INS raids to find illegal immigrants.

Present Obama and gang are going to "reeducate" Islamist murderers and release them to live amongst us. 

Is there a connection?

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I never believed in using descriptions of individuals in newspaper stories -- UNLESS the descriptions were so descriptive that so much of the male population, since most criminals in my small-town newspaper career were male, could not be implicated.

If the perp were me, say, I would have described  me a tall white guy wearing a blue UCSB baseball cap with gold SB on the front and a green, multicolored Hawaiian shirt and tan shorts (I'm not always color-coordinated). That description, more than height and weight, would have clued my local community into whom I was.

 Without that specificity, I do not believe height, weight and race are relevant, because they are so often wrong.

I've found that nearly all witnesses have actually INCORRECTLY identified height and weight. Thus, if you say, white, black or ethnic, such as Hispanic, then you run the risk of improperly and unfairly implicating so many men based on an eye-witness or -witnesses who are almost always inaccurate in their descriptions.

 However, as a professional journalist, and especially as a Society of Professional Journalists' member, I subscribe to its Code of Ethics, which says in its header: "Seek Truth and Report It"

It then says, "Journalists should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information."

 Well, I don't think a simple report on a shooting by naming the alleged perps is courageous, unless you face retribution which does occur, it is honest and fair to accurately gather their names, report their names and then say they have been arrested,  not charged.

Too many times, newspapers say alleged perps have been "charged" by the police. The police cannot charge the alleged perps. Only a district attorney or U.S. attorney can do that. The police can arrest an alleged perp ON SUSPICION of something, for instance, shooting.

 It is UNETHICAL not to report names of alleged perps who have been arrested. It is also UNETHICAL not to report that if someone has been arrested and then released and/or found not guilty (no one in the United States can be found "innocent" as many newspapers incorrectly report non-guilty verdicts) and not report it.

 I hope this adds clarity. I see there are many comments and have not had the time to read them all.

I might write more about this on my main blog, as my most-recent blog was about jingoistic non-syndicated conservative talking heads unfairly portraying the octuplets' mother first as Muslim (she isn't, which is irrelevant) and then as a "foreigner" (she isn't. She's American, which is irrelevant).

 Since writing this, I have one caveat, so I have edited my original post: I would prefer, personally, not to name names (meaning those arrested) in any alleged crime until the suspects go on trial.

However, I maintain that it is unethical not to report the truth, and if the truth is that someone has been arrested, it is ethical to say so, unless you have a policy that no one's name is used if they have been arrested until they go on trial. 

If you name the names of other people who have been arrested, as the newspaper in question here has done, then I stand by my charge that it is unethical not to report the names of arrested suspects.

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I noticed that the Star and Tribune, as well as most of the liberal news stations around the Metro Area here in Minnesota, all avoid referring to a criminal's race (and refusing to release black-sounding names helps to disguise their race), if that criminal happens to part of the "minority" class. That is, except for Asians. Asians are usually identified right away, especially the Lao immigrants and their children. It's a double standard with the liberals.

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Not long ago we had a rash of robberies in the Kansas City area being perpetrated, according to the Kansas City (Falling) Star, by three men in a maroon mini van. The identities of the three men were kept secret until one of their victims happened to work at the local radio station of a popular morning talk show host. Only then did we learn that they were three black men. He, of course, turned it into a segment and rightly so.

Apparently, the KC Star felt it was racist to publish the identities. I guess it's okay for "at large" criminals to be protected from racism while the rest of the population is kept uninformed. 

Don't anymore, but way back when I used to watch local news I learned pretty quick what they meant by 'youths'.

"Three youths apprehended for raping a woman in her apartment."

"Youth arrested for armed robbery."

Would turn out these "youths" were black thugs...and judging by their mug shots were anywhere from something teen to twenty something.  Never failed.

Others were "white males" or "Hispanic males", etc.

I guess they figured that stating their skin color/race would somehow stigmatize them in a way that showing their mugs wouldn't.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).