Saturday, April 13, 2024

Fomenting hate-----This is how WaPo covered a story about a man who opened fire on police during a traffic stop. Let's break down the bodycam footage. | Not the Bee

...look how the Washington Post is covering this story about a kid who opened fire on police during a traffic stop. - Jesse James

Let's look at how writer Jennifer Hassan opened this story:

Dexter Reed's mother remembers the last time she saw her son alive. "Mom, I'm going for a ride," he told her, before heading out in the car that he had purchased just three days earlier.

Reed, 26, was killed that same day, when tactical-unit police officers fired 96 bullets at him within 41 seconds, according to Chicago's Civilian Office of Police Accountability, or COPA, which investigates allegations of police misconduct and police shootings. "He was just riding around in his car," Dexter's mother, Nicole Banks, told Fox 32 Chicago on Tuesday, as she broke down in tears. "They killed him."

Sounds bad for the police, right?
Well, before you go grabbing that pitchfork for another Summer of Love, let's do what WaPo didn't and give you the facts.
There are FIVE bodycams that recorded the shootout.
Here is the first one...

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