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The political unrest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a black man killed by a white police officer in May 2020, prompted social media to resurface an older article from The Daily Archives website, headlined Racist Black Thugs Shoot White Baby in the Face for the Fun of It: The bare facts of the case were reasonably accurate as presented above. On March 22, 2013, news accounts reported the arrest of two teenagers in the shooting death of a 13-month-old baby in Georgia during a robbery attempt: The older of the two teenagers was eventually convicted on felony murder charges. But nothing in the reporting on the case supported The Daily Archives' headline, which claimed that the suspects were racists who perpetrated a hate crime by deliberately targeting white victims and shot a baby for the fun of it. Rather, according to police, the victim was selected randomly, and her child was shot because West did not produce cash immediately when she was held up: Tragically, this incident proved to be the second time West lost a child to violence:
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