ID TV station forced to apologize after using activist DeRay McKessons photo for bank robbery story

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Raw Story? @RawStory

Idaho TV station forced to apologize after using activist @deray McKesson’s photo for bank robbery story http://ow.ly/BgoF30dEMhi

According to Business Insider, station KBOI posted a tweet on Friday night that used a photo Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson during a July 2016 BLM protest in Baton Rouge.



Alerted to the picture by his followers, McKesson re-tweeted the story, with the disclaimer, “I haven’t been anywhere near a bank robbery. FYI.”

KBOI apologized in a tweet, wrting, “We messed up. We mistakenly tweeted a photo of @deray with an unrelated story link about a bank robbery. We at KBOI are very sorry.”

In a statement to Raw Story, McKesson wrote, “I’m confused as to how the image of my arrest in Baton Rouge was affixed to a story about a bank robbery in Idaho, especially given that the suspect wasn’t even black.”


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Link to tweet

[mercuryblues]

1. His picture used

When the suspect wasn't even black.

[MineralMan]

2. Really weird. What was the actual bank robbery suspect's name?

I didn't see it in the story.

Some dumbass did a Google Image search and came up with that photo, I guess. Sloppy.

[Tom Rinaldo]

4. We are talking Idaho here

While "sloppy" is a possibility, "intentional" is also.

[VermontKevin]

7. This is the second time they've used this young man's picture "mistakenly"

according to the article.

[Tom Rinaldo]

3. I'm sure there's a simple explanation for this

One with 6 letters starting with R and ending with M.

[Cal Carpenter]

10. Random! I'm sure it's just a random error!

[irisblue]

5. So I really hope his attorney gets a nice large chunk of change.

A holes

[VermontKevin]

6. What a bunch of racist assholes. I hope he sues.

[Hugin]

8. Lemme guess, a Sinclair station?

Maybe?

McKesson should pull a Trump and sue the station's ass off for defamation of character.

[Ptah]

9. Winner!

On April 11, 2013, Fisher announced that it would sell its properties, including KBOI-TV, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group.[9] The deal was completed on August 8, 2013.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBOI-TV#History