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Cop kills baby-HOAX

This story is a hoax. I am usually very good at spotting these hoaxes and not providing links to them, but this time they got me. Thanks to Caryl and Wodun for letting me know.

Horrible: A baby is killed by a NYPD cop because he didn’t want her mother to breastfeed.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

8 comments

  • geoffc

    Oh no! Mush mouth better hurry home from Missouri and start stirring up riots in NYC. After all, if he is not here to start the rioting, people might let normal justice handle the issue, and we know that is never acceptable to him.

  • geoffc

    Oh wait, the mom and baby were not black, so mush mouth won’t be interested, racist that he is.

  • wodun

    Fake story. This was supposed to be satire.

    http://nationalreport.net/national-report-publisher-allen-montgomery-responds/

    “This past Thursday, National Report published a story titled “NYPD Officer Kills Baby Following Breastfeeding Argument” and a follow up titled “NYPD Cop Who Killed Baby Cleared Of All Charges”. The response from the story has been overwhelming and, for the most part, extremely negative. The story exploded on social media, was shared on Facebook over a million times and led to countless death threats against members of the NR family. I would like to take a moment to respond to the critics…

    1. Satire is not required to be humorous, nor was this particular post meant to be funny. Police brutality is a very real and very serious issue. If you are looking for safe, neatly packaged laughs, then please continue reading the Onion as your only source of satire. If you are suggesting that every site that publishes fictional news have a pop-up that requires you to acknowledge the fact that what you are about to read may or may not be true, then you will need to look elsewhere for that as well. As a reminder, the most famous piece of satire in the English language, A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, chose the killing and eating of children to highlight social injustice precisely because it was deplorable.”

    This isn’t satire, this is slander.

  • Story corrected. Thank for letting me know.

    I am usually very good at spotting these hoaxes. This time they got me.

  • Craig Beasley

    On forums I frequent, we are disturbed by the stories coming from ‘National Report’. The seriousness with which they “report” their fiction and the obvious intention to connect to hot-button issues gives their work a somewhat sinister flavor, in my opinion. It’s like they are tailor-made to sow doubt about news stories in general, to create a fog of uncertainty.

  • What this particular hoax and its believability tell me is that the reputation of the police has been seriously damaged by their own actions in recent years. I was ready to believe this story, which means it is actually conceivable to me and others that a cop could abuse a nursing mother because she didn’t obey his orders.

    The actions of the police in Ferguson is not really helping their cause, even though I completely oppose the rioting and find it despicable.

  • wodun

    Hoaxes like this are irresponsible and are certainly not satire.

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