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From NBC News
On a cool evening in October, Alain Malcolm, 20, walked into a vacant two-story colonial house in Bristol, Connecticut. Two members of a local internet vigilante group — who regularly try to expose and shame alleged child predators they entice online — were waiting for him.
Malcolm was tall and handsome. The oldest son of Jamaican immigrants, he wholly subscribed to the idea of the American dream. In high school, Malcolm was vice president of the Future Business Leaders of America club, assistant captain of the tennis and swim teams and a member of the student council and Model United Nations. He started a social marketing business at 15.
After graduating in 2016, Malcolm filled his Instagram and Facebook feeds with photos of New York high-rises, bathroom selfies in three-piece suits and links to news articles in which he was featured. He went to community college while working as a junior buyer for a local circuit-board manufacturer and was the subject of a Connecticut Public Television series that profiled recent high school graduates.
Earlier this year, he was named one of Litchfield County’s 40 Leaders Under 40.
COMMENT:-
Can we TRY to keep the discussion focused on THESE PEOPLE AND THEIR TACTICS?
I think that we can take it as a given that "child predators" are not the type of people we want to admire.
OK?
Analogies to lynchings are just BARELY within the scope of the discussion I would prefer to see.
He lures alleged child predators and shames them on Facebook. Now one of his targets is dead.
On a cool evening in October, Alain Malcolm, 20, walked into a vacant two-story colonial house in Bristol, Connecticut. Two members of a local internet vigilante group — who regularly try to expose and shame alleged child predators they entice online — were waiting for him.
Malcolm was tall and handsome. The oldest son of Jamaican immigrants, he wholly subscribed to the idea of the American dream. In high school, Malcolm was vice president of the Future Business Leaders of America club, assistant captain of the tennis and swim teams and a member of the student council and Model United Nations. He started a social marketing business at 15.
After graduating in 2016, Malcolm filled his Instagram and Facebook feeds with photos of New York high-rises, bathroom selfies in three-piece suits and links to news articles in which he was featured. He went to community college while working as a junior buyer for a local circuit-board manufacturer and was the subject of a Connecticut Public Television series that profiled recent high school graduates.
Earlier this year, he was named one of Litchfield County’s 40 Leaders Under 40.
COMMENT:-
Can we TRY to keep the discussion focused on THESE PEOPLE AND THEIR TACTICS?
I think that we can take it as a given that "child predators" are not the type of people we want to admire.
OK?
Analogies to lynchings are just BARELY within the scope of the discussion I would prefer to see.