Talk:Michael Christopher Estes

Shaun King's Identification of Estes as White
The article originally mentioned that The Intercept (specifically, an article by Shaun King) mentioned that the lack of media coverage of this incident was because the suspect appeared white. However, King's article did not claim that Estes merely appeared white, but that he was white. Police jail records, cited by Snopes and currently verifiable on the jail's website, show that Estes' race is listed as "Native American / Alaskan Native," not white, therefore King's article was mistaken. At least as of my reading of King's article an hour or so ago, no correction or retraction had yet been made.

To leave the article in its form prior to my editing adding the Snopes link is misleading, as King didn't merely say that the suspect appeared white and the previous version of the article also had no mention that the Estes isn't actually white, according to police records.

If I did something incorrectly in the edit or you have a reliable source contradicting my edit, please feel free to explain here, but please do not revert the edit again without explanation. Vbscript2 (talk) 05:23, 13 October 2017 (UTC)


 * By the way, unfortunately, direct linking to the jail's website for that particular inmate does not work correctly. The Snopes article links to the search page on the jail's website. Estes' information can be found by using the search tool to search for the last name 'Estes.' Also unfortunately, since direct links don't work, attempts to get the Way Back Machine to archive the particular inmate's information don't work. As such, linking the Snopes article - where the information should be maintained indefinitely and which is also archivable - seemed like the best alternative. Vbscript2 (talk) 05:29, 13 October 2017 (UTC)


 * This is the page where searching for "Estes" currently brings up his entry: http://bcsd.p2c.buncombecounty.org/jailinmates.aspx Direct linking is not possible for any inmate. I did not realize that, because it worked in my browser. Apparently the navid parameter in the link corresponds to a cookie. Watchduck (quack) 10:23, 14 October 2017 (UTC)