Blatant media malfeasance

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This deserves its own thread at this point.

Remember this story from NPR a few weeks back?



"Right-wing extremists turn cars into weapons as they attack peaceful protesters! ZOMG!"

Only problem is the picture they used was of a black driver who had her hair pulled out and had a gun pointed at her by the "peaceful protesters."

Okay so now you're ABC "news" and there is another case of a car plowing into protesters but this time it's a black driver that has run over and killed a white Black Lives Matter protester, how do you cover this story?

Maybe "Black driver kills white Black Lives Matter protester"? Naww, doesn't fit the narrative.

I know!

A young protester has died from injuries suffered when a luxury car plowed into Black Lives Matter demonstrators Saturday on a Seattle freeway that has been shut down for days due to the civil unrest, police said.

Summer Taylor was pronounced dead at a local hospital hours after a 27-year-old man in a white Jaguar drove onto a closed section of Interstate 5 where ongoing demonstrations have been occurring and slammed into Taylor and another protester, Diaz Love, 32, who was seriously injured, police said.

Perfect! Don't mention the Black Lives Matter protester was white (gotta make it sound like it was a black protester) and make it seem like a "luxury car" took on a mind of its own and decided to plow into a group of protesters. Also be sure to mention the car was white, because that totally matters right? Maybe people will associate a "white" car with a "white" driver. Oh yeah and by "luxury" car it implies wealth and status, something we all know people with white privilege have. That's the ticket!

Is it possible, just maybe possible, that many of these "attacks" aren't really attacks at all but rather accidents because drivers aren't expecting people to be literally protesting in the middle of the freeway?

Or are we going with the theory that a black man was really a white supremacist and decided to plow into a white BLM protester because he hates black people so much? Oh right, we're pretending the driver was really white and the protester that was killed was really black. Silly me.