Don't want to freak him out more, but

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Josh Marshall ?@joshtpm 16m
Don't want to freak him out more but wld be great if there was massive show of support or this kid http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/teen-stunned-at-portrayal-as-boston-bomb-suspect.php …




REVERE, Mass. (AP) — A teenager said he is scared to go outside after he was portrayed on the Internet and on the front page of the New York Post as connected to the deadly Boston Marathon bombings.

Photos of Salah Eddin Barhoum, 17, and friend Yassine Zaime were posted on websites whose users have been scouring marathon finish line photos for suspects. The two were also on the Post’s front Thursday with the headline: “Bag men: Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon.”

Barhoum, a track runner at Revere High School, said he is convinced some will blame him for the bombings, no matter what.

He was so fearful on Thursday that he ran back to the high school after a track meet when he saw a man in a car staring at him, talking into a phone, he said.

“I’m going to be scared going to school,” Barhoum said. “Workwise, my family, everything is going to be scary.”


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/teen-stunned-at-portrayal-as-boston-bomb-suspect.php

related:

"If at first you don't succeed with an Arab guy, try, try again."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022699364

Toby Harnden ?@tobyharnden 57m
Reddit: "blue tracksuit man" innocent. "His latest facebook post shows him freaking out tht he is on tv as th bomber" http://www.reddit.com/r/findbostonbombers/comments/1cl4qx/the_two_males_that_the_media_have_claimed_the_fbi/ …

[Buzz Clik]

1. +1

[freshwest]

2. I'm glad that Reddit is correcting this... But he's a marked man by the freeper types. What a mess.

[bigtree]

3. kick before I go out the door to work

. . .

[Poll_Blind]

4. The internet can make even the worst drunken Klan lynch party look like children wandering around...

...in a playpen.

I hope Barhoum safely escapes back to anonymity with the bulk of us as quickly as possible.

PB

[Hekate]

6. There's a mob mentality like I wouldn't have believed a decade ago

God, I feel sorry for that kid -- well, both of them. I hope they and their families come through this all right.

[Poll_Blind]

10. And it's instant. And in that instant, 14 million people can want you dead.

That's a gaze a gorgon would be envious of.

PB

[bullwinkle428]

5. Bastards at the NY Post should burn in hell.

[treestar]

7. Sue the bastards

He is not a public figure and the NYP implied he was guilty of a heinous crime. Or at least that he was being sought for it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. He should be more scared to be wearing a NYC sweatshirt in Revere

[mainer]

15. Heh, no kidding

My husband got cold in Boston one day and pulled out a hat from his coat pocket. He kept getting angry stares and muttered "F-U"s. Only later did he realize his hat had the Yankees logo on it.

[Control-Z]

9. Sue the crap out of the Post.

They knew better. We all knew better. They went with it anyway.

Internet BS is one thing. But a news rag? Not the same. Poor kid.

[Milliesmom]

11. President Obama , or Duval Patrick

Need to go on TV and tell people this young man is innocent, Rachel Maddow has, but they really need to say is something happens to this kid that there will be hell to pay.
They also need to tell people to STOP blaming all dark skinned people for this, it is crazy, reminds me of the poor Japanese Americans during WWII. Stop the hate now.

[bigtree]

13. I agree

. . . he's due a WH visit, at the least.

[bigtree]

12. kick

[Skraxx]

14. What The Post Did Was Criminally Irresponsible

Poor kid.

[Phentex]

16. This makes me so sad...

the stress would be awful.

[Catherine Vincent]

17. ...

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” --Malcolm X

[MH1]

18. Hopefully some lawyers step up to help him win a lawsuit or two.

It won't take back what happened, but a pile of cash might help deal with the consequences.