They won’t believe anything that does not match their world-view. If you say the guy is innocent, they just say Fox news told them he was in a gang, and they treat that as a fact.

There is no way to get to these people, unless the GOP inflicts personal pain on them, and even then…loyalty and “purity” is everything to them.

EDIT: I’m having an existential crisis. I’m not sure I’m so dumb when I look at these people.