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In reply to the discussion: Trayvon Martin was also suspended for graffiti, previously found with 12 pieces of women's jewlery [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)non-credible, not the newspaper.
The newspaper is, in fact, very clear and much more credible than you. It says
Trayvons backpack contained 12 pieces of jewelry, in addition to a watch and a large flathead screwdriver, according to the report, which described silver wedding bands and earrings with diamonds.
The newspaper doesn't say that there were silver and diamonds in the bag. The newspaper says that the report describes items that way. In other words, the journalist understands that she cannot know for a fact whether anything in that bag was silver or diamond. All she can know is that a report describes item that way. You, on the other hand, have spent the better part of the last two hours doing something that this newspaper article NEVER DID: claiming that it was a known fact that silver wedding bands and diamond earrings were like, y'know, so definitely found in Mr. Martin's bag.
You don't know that, anymore than this journalist did. You were just too dishonest, or too invested in there being obviously stolen jewlry in Mr. Martin's bag (and likely both) to admit it.
And, who me? Ascribing, now? Whatever could you mean?