I know what you're saying, and I don't mean to suggest I'm defending doxxing this random dude, merely that the police fucked up big time and the (rather inventive) method the internet detectives used to try and determine who might have biked through the park at that time might have actually produced usable information if the cops had given the correct date.
The correction was issued way before the internet detectives even knew about the issue to start digging, though--there's less than thirty minutes between the initial "this morning" tweet and the "the assault was YESTERDAY morning, 6/1" followup on 6/2, and from what I can tell the incident didn't even go viral until the 4th.
The far bigger driver of people zeroing in on 6/2 was probably actually the video posted by the people assaulted--
for whatever reason, the video says June 2, 2020 in the lower left corner.
Poking around Twitter, people immediately responded to the doxxing of the guy by going 'actually, the cops say it was 6/1', and the response of the Twitter mob is largely "he probably was there 6/1 too and just deleted the upload."
Like, I think there's room for a good discussion around when tweets should have followup corrections and when it's in the public interest to remove them and repost them, but there's no reason to believe the cop tweet is what drove the mob on this guy given the bad date coming from somewhere higher-profile and the relatively quick correction on the part of police. This was just an example of internet detecting at its worst.
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