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Reverend Steven Moseley comes across really bad here

posted 7 years ago by Jupiter555555
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I mean... just, really bad. Obviously the story of the racial slurs was complete BS anyway for reasons I'll list below, but even if she did say some bad things...does that mean that knifing her to death was acceptable? I just wonder how people like this "reverend" find ways to justify something like that. How can you be so seething with anger and hatred in your heart that if someone *says* some words, they deserve to be murdered? It's insane...and they'll never see the irony.

Now for the reasons it's not even true that she was saying racist things: Moseley said himself that he was driving around looking for a woman to kill shortly after it happened; in the recent years Moseley concocted the story that he wasn't the one who killed her, but some gangster named Rocco did because she owed him (I mean, lol, how crazy can you be that you just keep making up differing stories); as Bill Genovese said, Moseley had killed an African American woman around the same time. So "racial tensions," Reverend, my foot.

He then brought up the impact that it had *on him*, as a 7 year old...it was just all about him! He had 0 empathy or sympathy for Kitty. He then basically told Bill to move on.....

I guess it runs in the family! His dad thinks it's all about him too. Killer Moseley said he's tired of being "exploited" and therefore declined to be interviewed. 

All in all, good film.. I just didn't like the reenactment. I didn't think that served any purpose and besides that notification letters posted, I think if anything all it did was continue to desensitize people to screams. But for the most part I just thought it was extremely weird, served no good purpose, perhaps did some bad, and was just another way for Bill G. to ruminate in the misery. Oh, it was also unpleasant to view.

But again-- good documentary. It went much deeper than I expected and I enjoyed that.

[–] BugisStreetAnnie 7 years ago

I guess it runs in the family! His dad thinks it's all about him too

Yes, I noticed that too. It makes you wonder why he even agreed to the interview.

[–] heckallen 7 years ago

Saying he came off bad is putting it mildly. He said if it weren't for the notoriety of the case his father would have been released. Is he kidding?!! For committing two murders, several rapes, escaping from prison and committing more rapes, holding people hostage etc.. The Reverend's comments about the victims family having mob ties was also very racist.

[–] kicke_blueblack 7 years ago

As for the "reenactment", I could not have said it any better myself.
As I watched it I found myself asking out loud (to no one) "what the hell? Is this really happening?"

[–] AssetsonFire (144) 3 years ago

He seemed about as genuine a Christian as Talbert Swan.

If there's one thing social media has taught me, it's that a disturbing number of people think extreme violence, if not murder, is just punishment for using the N-word. The same people often seem have no problem using racial slurs themselves.