Media Spins Wheel to decide latest Youtuber to run hitpiece on, settles on The Slingshot Channel
That’s lie #1 right there.
Jeorg Sprave’s video went up six months before Keith Palmer got stabbed, it was not about him. They couldn’t even make it through the headline with journalistic integrity intact.
You stop that right now, Joerg is a human teddybear.
Cracks start to appear when they get to actual quotes from Sprave.
Yesterday, when approached by The Mail on Sunday, Sprave, who has 120,000 subscribers in the UK, defended the video.
Interviewed at his former hunting lodge home in the village of Rothenburg near Heidelberg, he said: ‘I just want to show that people who wear these vests should not feel invincible.
‘They are still vulnerable. These vests should not be described as stab proof.’
Wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan Fight Fire With Fire, he added: ‘I just test things and make videos to review all kinds of things like cameras, knives and air guns.
'If they change police equipment because I have shown it is vulnerable then I may be saving some lives.
‘I feel sorry about what happened to the policeman in London. He should have had a gun to protect himself.’
And indeed, Keith Palmer was stabbed right through his ‘stab proof’ vest. Jeorg making a video showing that’s possible isn’t what made it happen. This is like blaming a hacker who reveals a system vulnerability for the problem.
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