Baltimore’s WBFF — a Fox affiliate — edited protests of an anti-police-violence protest to make it sound like the protesters were chanting “kill a cop.”
By cutting away from the video mid-chant, FOX’s segment paints protestors as explicitly calling for the murder of police. They’ve depicted a non-violent protest about accountability for police brutality as a bloodthirsty mob.
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.
Slimy Baltimore FOX Affiliate Caught Faking “Kill a Cop” Protest Chant [Miserable Shitehawk/Gawker]