Here is a fine example why New York Times 'reporting' is not to be taken seriously: Excuses for a perp who shot a cop, and demonization for the wounded man in blue
In the New York Times' May 12 print edition, reporters Chelsia Tose Marcius and Tea Kvenenadze wrote that a Bronx man was shot and killed by police after he wounded a police officer. Their account is a good example of anti-cop propaganda. Here is the lead sentence:
Neighbors said a man fatally shot by the police during an exchange of gunfire Tuesday night [May 9] that also wounded an officer was troubled but seemed unthreatening, living under the supervision of a mental health court after a weapons charge.
The next paragraph provides the police department's account of the incident:
Rameek Smith, 25, was killed in the Bronx after he fired two shots at officers, police officers said. Officers fired back, shooting Mr., Smith in the head. He died early Wednesday at St. Barnabas Hospital, a Police Department spokesman said.
The third paragraph gives readers a sympathetic account of Mr. Smith from a neighbor:
"He was a young man trying to get back into his daughter's life," Mr. Smith's neighbor Michael Ballard, 47, said Wednesday, adding that he had never seen any problems with Mr. Smith.
Here the letters "OMG" come to the mind of this reader in the face of an obvious effort by reporters and editors at the New York Times to exculpate an individual who possessed and fired a handgun at members of the NYPD. It would seem that by quoting a neighbor of the deceased, readers are to conclude that he did not present "problems" to the community, notwithstanding his discharge, with wounding effect, of a weapon.
The ninth paragraph of this "exalt those who fire at police" story said:
The police said a 9-millimeter Glock handgun that had been stolen last year in Richmond, Va., had been recovered at the scene,
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...s_reporting_is_not_to_be_taken_seriously.html
“He wounded a police officer”
“but seemed unthreatening” unthreatening man shot the policeman
“after a weapons charge”
“he fired two shots at officers”
The perp also had 9 prior arrests. Yet, here he is — loose on the streets again shooting at cops
In the New York Times' May 12 print edition, reporters Chelsia Tose Marcius and Tea Kvenenadze wrote that a Bronx man was shot and killed by police after he wounded a police officer. Their account is a good example of anti-cop propaganda. Here is the lead sentence:
Neighbors said a man fatally shot by the police during an exchange of gunfire Tuesday night [May 9] that also wounded an officer was troubled but seemed unthreatening, living under the supervision of a mental health court after a weapons charge.
The next paragraph provides the police department's account of the incident:
Rameek Smith, 25, was killed in the Bronx after he fired two shots at officers, police officers said. Officers fired back, shooting Mr., Smith in the head. He died early Wednesday at St. Barnabas Hospital, a Police Department spokesman said.
The third paragraph gives readers a sympathetic account of Mr. Smith from a neighbor:
"He was a young man trying to get back into his daughter's life," Mr. Smith's neighbor Michael Ballard, 47, said Wednesday, adding that he had never seen any problems with Mr. Smith.
Here the letters "OMG" come to the mind of this reader in the face of an obvious effort by reporters and editors at the New York Times to exculpate an individual who possessed and fired a handgun at members of the NYPD. It would seem that by quoting a neighbor of the deceased, readers are to conclude that he did not present "problems" to the community, notwithstanding his discharge, with wounding effect, of a weapon.
The ninth paragraph of this "exalt those who fire at police" story said:
The police said a 9-millimeter Glock handgun that had been stolen last year in Richmond, Va., had been recovered at the scene,
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...s_reporting_is_not_to_be_taken_seriously.html
“He wounded a police officer”
“but seemed unthreatening” unthreatening man shot the policeman
“after a weapons charge”
“he fired two shots at officers”
The perp also had 9 prior arrests. Yet, here he is — loose on the streets again shooting at cops