LOOK AT THIS SHIT.
Over 120 children rescued following Michigan human trafficking sting
Everything about that headline is a lie, and there are variations on it in a million different news sites. Just search US Marshals and Detroit or something for a representative sampling.
Here is the press release from the US Marshals, though:
New USMS Child Recovery Unit Recovers 123 Children During 1-Day Operation
1. It was not a fucking sting.
2. They can say it was a 'human trafficking initiative' I guess, because you can say anything, but only three of those cases
may have had human trafficking involved.
3. The press release says, "Participating officers were given the case files and began investigating their whereabouts by visiting last known addresses, friend’s homes and schools in hopes of finding them in a safe place." That's not a sting, and it's not a rescue. They were fine all along, the cops just hadn't bothered to follow up.
The only one it looks like they 'rescued' in any sense at all was one homeless teenager.
Conclusion: They had a big backlog of missing children reports they'd never gotten around to investigating at all, so they set aside a day to do some basic-assed checking to see if the kids were in super-obvious places such as home, school, or at a friend's house. And a bunch of them were! Because most as in like 90 something percent of missing children reports are kids who run away from home for a couple days or stay over at a friend's house without permission, and then come right back home.
Three of them had possibly been involved with human trafficking, likely meaning that they'd reported doing sex work and had pimps, which is fucking awful, but it's not what the story is implying. They're making it sound like human traffickers were driving around Detroit just scooping up hundreds of kids off the streets to sell them.
But hey, that's cool. The QAnon idiots are loving these headlines, so great job, media, and great job, idiots freaking out about the story without even fucking reading it.
Mark my words, human trafficking is our very own modern day Satanic Panic even outside the totally whackadoo Alex Jones circles.