![]() King finished with a categorical denial of any wrongdoing: "By in large, if you think I plagiarized a damn thing, you can kiss my a**," he wrote. Related: Notorious reporter Stephen Glass repays magazine for 1998 story "They ride HARD for Hillary," King wrote. In a series of sharply worded tweets, he vehemently defended himself and even suggested that the Daily Beast was motivated to damage his reputation because "Chelsea Clinton is on the board of the parent company of The Daily Beast." While the Daily News took time to put a statement together, King took to Twitter. King also said that he was not aware of those changes because he never reads his articles after they have been published. King told CNNMoney that in all of these cases he had provided proper attribution and that an editor had removed his citation and quotation marks. These included a FiveThirtyEight article from last week, a Drexel University article from February, and a blog post from from last December. Journalists on Twitter, however, were drawing attention to several more instances in which King appeared to have plagiarized. Related: NPR music writer quits over plagiarism Rich corroborated King's explanation, calling it "an editing mistake." The Daily News also added an editor's note to the article. "Someone really f****ed up here," King said of the editor. King said he provided proper attribution in his drafts, but that the citations and quotation marks were removed by an editor without his knowledge. In an interview, King told CNNMoney that the appearance of plagiarism in the article was the result of errors by an editor. Related: NY Daily News hires columnist and activist Shaun King King's article included no quotation marks and no mention of The Daily Beast. ![]() Justin Miller, a senior editor at The Daily Beast, accused King of plagiarism on Tuesday after it was discovered that his most recent article included two paragraphs that were identical to those in a Daily Beast article. Somehow, in each of those cases, police found in their hearts to overcome their fears without unloading their guns on those men.The announcement came after a chaotic day in which King had vehemently defended himself against mounting accusations of plagiarism. She should've received the treatment that all of those armed white men received. She was a cosmetologist and, according to her friends and family, a doting mother. Korryn Gaines doesn't have a violent history. White men, be they mass shooters like Dylann Roof (Charleston), James Holmes (Aurora), or Jared Lee Loughner (Tucson) - or men like William Bruce Ray, Anthony Vigilotti, or Jed Frazier - all live to face a jury of their peers. In a quick search, I found a dozen similar stories from July alone. Frazier was treated for minor injuries before being taken to the Lawrence County Jail." Police say they broke the windows in the truck and extricated Frazier. Jed Frazier pointed his handgun directly at police, but "officers and medics took shelter and continued to make contact with Frazier. ![]() From his mugshot, it doesn't even look like he received a scratch in the process. In a fit of road rage, Anthony Vigilotti pointed a handgun directly at a police officer, but was arrested later that day without incident. Gaines' 5-year-old survived a gunshot wound and is recovering in a hospital. ![]()
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