FOX "News" Edits Protest Video To Show Protesters Calling For Murder

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Baltimore Fox Affiliate Edits Video To Stir Up Sentiment Against Anti-Brutality Activists
By Susie Madrak December 22, 2014 1:10 pm -


Even for Fox, this is pretty damned outrageous. The local affiliates tend to be more rational than the national Fox channels, but this is just unthinkable. Via Gawker:

Last night, Baltimore's WBFF aired a video of protesters chanting "kill a cop"– evidence, it claimed, of murderously violent rhetoric on the part of anti-brutality protesters in Washington, D.C. The only problem? The protesters weren't chanting "kill a cop" at all, and there's video evidence to prove it.The current national pastime appears to be constructing elaborate ways of laying responsibility for recent police shootings at the feet of anti-police-brutality protesters. This, of course, is bullshit. Faced with the daunting task of shifting blame for broad and escalating distrust of police away from the murderous bastards themselves and onto mostly non-violent activists, our insanely cynical news media has been forced to dig deep into their bag of tricks.

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What you are hearing there is a protester in Washington, D.C. shout the following chant:

We can't stop!We won't stop!'til killer cops are in cell blocks!

Not a particularly provocative chant, all things considered: protesters are announcing their intention to continue organizing until murderous police officers are put in jail. Fair enough!


That is, until Baltimore's local FOX affiliate got their hands on this video. Here's their interpretation of it:

We can't stop!We won't stop!So 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.


BOTH VIDEOS AS EVIDENCE HERE:
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/12/baltimore-fox-affiliate-edits-video-stir

[Dirty Socialist]

1. Revoke their broadcasting license

Do it now!

[riversedge]

3. I do not think there are any repercussions for vile dishonest

"news" from Fox. Is there?? I mean--look at Hannity, O'Lielly, etc--year after year.

[underpants]

2. Cemented in RW lore by now but I was curious about this

thanks for the clarification

[Wellstone ruled]

4. So nice not having this

POS on our Dish. What a sick bunch of so called American Business people.

[Electric Monk]

5. With their selective editing, FOX is inciting violence. They should face charges, imho.

K&R for visibility. I had heard of the edited version earlier, so my sincere thanks for showing the un-edited version.

[daredtowork]

6. Video splicing has been going on for a long time.

A few years ago a local NBC affiliate interviewed me, and the reporter spliced my replies with different questions in order to tell his preconceived story. The editor wouldn't do anything about it. Local newspapers picked up the fake "story".

This made me hyper aware of how journalists write the news and just get the quotes they need to fit it. They know normal people can't afford lawyers, and such trivialities aren't worth the effort. Ever since I discovered how brazen the creative splicing is, I haven't trusted US media at all. I usually try to blend foreign sources to understand what's going on, with the hope that various national biases will cancel each other out.

Anyway, part of the problem is there is nowhere to go when such splicing occurs. There needs to be a media watchdog with teeth that common citizens can call when splicing is used in a way that will libel or defame them. Someone editors will instantly listen to. I'm not talking about pressuring journalists to change their stories - only offering innocent bystanders a way to extract themselves quickly by reporting where their words were spliced and thus do not bear implicit permission to be conveyed as news.

[Gothmog]

7. Fox News clearly edited the tape