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New York’s OCME rules the deaths of the Farea sisters in the Hudson River last year suicide. The case had prompted widespread suspicion that the Saudi govt had played some role.
For background, here is the Washington Post’s report from November of last year. washingtonpost.com/local/public-s…
OCME just sent out a revised statement from the Medical Examiner deleting the final comment in the previous statement they distributed (about the sisters being 2 of 500 suicides citywide in 2018)
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Breathing life into a nonissue presented by bad people acting in transparently bad faith is the problem, Chris. Senator Harris should have no obligation to respond to this hateful, racist nonsense. You and your network are constantly pumping the poison into our veins.
Every smarmy “here we go again” tweet perpetuates this freak show. We don’t have to go at all. The racists have neither evidence nor a valid legal argument on their side. All they have is witting or unwitting allies in the media. Skip it. For decency’s sake.
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I had thought a walk back was distinct from a pure contradiction.
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