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04-20-2013, 12:14 PM
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It turns out that authorities are not looking for these two, one of whom is a 17-year-old high school track athlete and the other his coach, at all. Their “pictures were circulated last night in an email among law enforcement officials,” according to the Post’s own lede.
Here’s what the 17-year-old immigrant kid, who runs track for his high school and works at Subway, told the New York Daily News:
“A lot of people have bags, not just me. I thought, ‘Why me?’” Barhoum said, adding that he was carrying only gym clothes and sneakers in his bag.
“The only thing they look at is my skin color and since I’m Moroccan I’m kind of dark,” he said. “Last night I couldn’t sleep. Just thinking about the consequences. What are people going to say and what the result is going to be.”
Barhoum joined his mom and dad as a gaggle of reporters asked what it felt like to be run down in a rush to judgment.
"It's such a disaster,” he said at the impromptu press conference at the modest basement apartment he shares with his parents in Revere, Mass. “To be blamed for all that injury and death. It's the worst."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/hs-track-star-speaks-didn-article-1.1320766#ixzz2R1b9b2bs
http://cjrarchive.org/img/posts/NYPost-false-Boston.png
It turns out that authorities are not looking for these two, one of whom is a 17-year-old high school track athlete and the other his coach, at all. Their “pictures were circulated last night in an email among law enforcement officials,” according to the Post’s own lede.
Here’s what the 17-year-old immigrant kid, who runs track for his high school and works at Subway, told the New York Daily News:
“A lot of people have bags, not just me. I thought, ‘Why me?’” Barhoum said, adding that he was carrying only gym clothes and sneakers in his bag.
“The only thing they look at is my skin color and since I’m Moroccan I’m kind of dark,” he said. “Last night I couldn’t sleep. Just thinking about the consequences. What are people going to say and what the result is going to be.”
Barhoum joined his mom and dad as a gaggle of reporters asked what it felt like to be run down in a rush to judgment.
"It's such a disaster,” he said at the impromptu press conference at the modest basement apartment he shares with his parents in Revere, Mass. “To be blamed for all that injury and death. It's the worst."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/hs-track-star-speaks-didn-article-1.1320766#ixzz2R1b9b2bs