MSNBC’s Joy Reid is getting sued over inciting an online mob to attack an innocent woman in a misleading photo from California in June.
Her name is Rosalyn La Liberte
" You are going to be the first deported"
" dirty Mexican "
^some things she yelled at this 14 year old boy at a city council meeting. Please don’t RT this and spread her face and name everywhere. pic.twitter.com/helQP7z6Uv— Post Nut Clarití Champú (@CuddleSweet) June 30, 2018
Reid deleted it but she had jumped into an online mob that was attacking Rosalyn La Liberte over a report that someone had yelled racial epithets to a 14 year old boy.
But even the kid admits she didn’t do it:
During a recess in the meeting the teenager says he started a conversation with the woman to try and understand her feelings, “but, I felt like she was still trying to keep it civil which I appreciate .”
Both he and his mom say there were rude people saying ugly things like the teen would be the first to be deported. For the record, he was born and raised in this part of Southern California and he didn’t like that. But, he says, what you see in the photo isn’t a confrontation but a conversation.
La Liberte says, I never said anything disparaging. I never did.”
That didn’t matter to the online mob of course:
La Liberte and her husband tell us people have been calling their phone to harass her. She says the picture couple with the spread of social media has been incredibly damaging. First, she says, “I look like a monster. If I saw that i would be upset.” She says one of her clients has already dumped her because of the photo.
The teen says, I heard some people were boycotting this woman’s business. I don’t really want that… because she was being civil.”
When we first talked to her at her home she broke into tears because we told her what Luevanos told us about her “being civil”. She says, “I wasn’t really doing anything to him and everyone thought I was and that makes me really sad. It makes me really sad that I’m so vilified.
To that, Luevanos says “I don’t really want this upon her. She doesn’t deserve it because she was giving her opinion at a place where everyone should be able to say their peace.”
Here’s video from the meeting:
La Liberte (cool name!) is seeking $75,000 in damages in her lawsuit that claims defamation by the MSNBC host.
Here’s our post from when it originally happened.