Not sure about the racial aspect, but sounds like everything else you've deduced is correct, from what I've read. This is such a depressing story, yet it's not even surprising to read about events like this nowadays.
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I am not absolutely certain about the race either. It is just a trend I've noticed. The news only seems to put emphasis on the race of shooters if they are white.
The name was released...
Ronald Troyke was the name I found for the shooter.
When I look for images I mostly find images of Johnny the hero.
There is one image I found which if it is him he could be white, or might identify as Latino or something. He could pass for either.
Yet if that image is him it has a back the blue style flag behind him on the wall as well as other U.S. Flags. That makes it a bit confusing unless he had some psychotic break or something and suddenly was acting as though he was betrayed or something.
I'm sure we'll hear more eventually.
EDIT: Then from CBS I find another image which if is him is a black man. So at this point it is completely up in the air.
Regardless it is bad no matter skin color. I just am hyper sensitive to how the news tends to go nuts when a shooter is white and say not much about it at all if it is otherwise.
Yes, I also tried to do a little research yesterday, out of curiosity. My little bit of research of people with this last name only turned up people I would have called "white" (including some guy with the same name as the brother of the shooter). But I agree it's not a real issue either way.
All of the white images I found were of the Hero Johnny Hurley even though I searched Troyke's name. I found one that wasn't Hurley who looked white (might be able to argue Latino it was borderline so either way) but had back the blue style flags and such on the wall behind him. Then on CBS I found an image of a black guy (only one).
Ultimately I was only curious to see if it would stick with the trend of what gets reported and what doesn't.
I am all for equality. Equal justice. That has nothing to do with our immutable characteristics.
There is a lot of propaganda and narrative pushing out there though that is fueling division and hatred and that is truly only what I am zeroing in on.
If Hurley had been black I would have just as proud of his actions. He did what a brave person that is aware, has the weapon, and has the training should do to help people and stop psychotic actions.
Im confused... Why @smooth downvote this post for around $20.
Disagree with the overly large votes it got. It's still paying $53 which is more than 99.9% of posts on the platform.
Don't you think that downvote discourages large content creators such as @lukewearechange from participating on this platform and encouraging his audience to join/invest into Hive? Never mind that this post is a humanitarian issue centering around an hero saving the lives of many people whose family needs support as well that this post could help with if it was that more visible.
No, I don't.
Well I have seen it happen since 2017. Granted namely by grumpy or bernie. Content creators with 100s of thousands of subscribers have came and left because they get censored from downvotes. But i respect your position nonetheless. I do appreciate the efforts on Hive to distribute rewards to everyone equally but a downvote taking away 30% of a content creator's post and the curation most def leaves a bad taste in any creators mouth especially high quality content creators with large audiences who are currently telling everyone to go to lbry and gab.
I'm going to reply just this once and then drop off the thread.
No one is "taking away" anything. The rewards are not calculated until the payout after 7 days. Everything before that is a voting process with an estimated payout. If one stakeholder upvotes a lot and then another stakeholder downvotes a lot, it is disingenuous to suggest that the upvote is legitimate and the downvote is not. It's all a voting process that arrives at consensus for the payout (if any) after 7 days. In this case, a payout that is still enormous relative to the platform.
That's my view and if you disagree, that's fine. Vote accordingly.
I appreciate your response and that you even voiced your opinion no matter how stale and unhuman of response that was. My vote and 99%+ of the blockchain 's doesnt matter if we have consolidated wealth that can drive content content creators away and stalling out any progress that we should be seeing with a alternative social media site application in Hive like LBRY is seeing. Arguably Hive should be seeing those people coming here not to lbry. How can development happen if year after year content creators with large audiences choose to go else where?
Thanks again for your time and I understand I have used up my allotted time with ya.