Fox affiliate WBFF in Baltimore aired a video of protesters at a “Justice for All” rally in Washington, D.C. The affiliate claimed that the protesters were shouting, “Kill a cop.” WBFF even aired a video edited to make it sound that way. But an unedited video makes it quite clear the protesters were saying something else entirely. UPDATED
From a December 22 post by Matt Wilstein on Mediaite (my emphasis):
Three times over the last 24 hours, Baltimore Fox affiliate WBFF has played a misleadingly edited clip from last week’s National “Justice for All” March in Washington, D.C. to make it sound like protesters were calling on people to “kill a cop.”
“At this rally in Washington, D.C. participants chanted, ‘We won’t stop, we can’t stop, so kill a cop,’” WBFF’s Melinda Roeder said during a Sunday night report about the murder of two police officers in New York City, before playing a truncated version of a protest video from C-SPAN. “The anti-police sentiment reached a turning point this weekend in New York when two officers were gunned down in cold blood.”
In reality, the protesters were saying,
We can’t stop!
We won’t stop!
‘til killer cops are in cell blocks!
Furthermore, as Gawker noted, the woman leading the chant is the sister of someone killed by the Baltimore police:
What’s significant about this act – other than the fact that it is intended for and will be gobbled up by psychotic paranoid racist conservative white people as evidence of the inherent criminality of black people – is that the woman leading the chant is Tawanda Jones, the sister of Tyrone West, who was murdered by Baltimore City Police on July 18, 2013. The West family’s quest for justice for this crime has been overwhelmingly ignored by the city of Baltimore – after 73 weeks’ worth of “West Wednesday” actions, the family has still not even been given Tyrone’s full autopsy report.
Gawker also noted the explicitly non-violent nature of Jones’ protests, along with her distinction of “killer cops” from “all cops.”
But even at the local level, Fox’s conservative political agenda trumps news.
Watch the two videos below and see for yourself.
(H/T reader Eric J.)
UPDATE: WBFF has apologized to Jones. Raw Story has more.
The autopsy results say so, cap . . .
http://www.themsuspokesman.com/2013/12/10/autopsy-reveals-tyrone-west-death-after-months-of-brutality-speculation/
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