The death of a 16-year-old girl is tragic even when the killing is justified to protect others. But NBC News wants the latest death to be seen as an unnecessary act of unproved murder of a young Black girl by a White police officer based on the way they’re reporting it.
Ma’Khia Bryant had a knife. She was trying to stab someone with that knife. The police officer who shot and killed her decided that she must be stopped, and he did so with very little time as the knife in Bryant’s hand was already heading towards its intended victim. The officer was prepared, knowing from the 911 call that there was a girl with a knife trying to stab people. NBC News decided to deceptively edit all of that part out.
First, they went after the 911 call, omitting the extremely important part where the caller tells police there is someone at the address trying to stab people. According to Fox News:
A 911 caller alerted police that someone was “trying to stab us” before the fatal officer-involved shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant, who appeared to attack two other females with a knife on Tuesday.
Police released new information about the case on Wednesday, including two 911 calls, the body-worn camera footage of three officers who responded to the call and the identity of the officer who pulled the trigger.
The first 911 call came in at 4:32 p.m. The caller, who has not been identified by police, said amid a commotion in the background, “[indistinguishable]…trying to fight us, trying to stab us, trying to put their hands on our grandma. Get here now.”
NBC News cut that part out.
In their report on the officer-involved shooting in Columbus, Ohio, NBC Nightly News deceptively edited the 911 call to leave out the part where the caller says a girl was "trying to stab us." They also don't show viewers the knife in the attacker's hand just before the shots. pic.twitter.com/r5uXD1qDb1
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 22, 2021
For World News Tonight's part, ABC also shared the important part of the 911 call where the attempted stabbing was mentioned. They also stopped the video and highlighted the knife. pic.twitter.com/Ti9j4JNLaS
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 22, 2021
While ABC and CBS highlighted the knife in the attacker's hand, this is how NBC highlighted it. On the ground. pic.twitter.com/5v9odEuOIj
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 22, 2021
The reporting should be pretty straight forward. A girl waving around a knife at an altercation backs another person up onto the hood of a car and raises the knife at them. The police officer fires four shots, allowing the intended victim to escape. There should be no disagreement about the course of events that took place, but NBC News decided to leave it open to the interpretation of their viewers without giving them the full picture.
To make it all worse, they edited out the knife itself. One can argue that omission of the portion of the 911 call was just terrible journalism, but combined with minimizing the presence of the knife, barely showing an image of it on the ground for under one second, it’s clear they’re not reporting the news. They’re trying to form a racist narrative.
According to The Gateway Pundit:
NBC News deceptively edited police bodycam footage so their viewers wouldn’t see the knife in 15-year-old Ma’Kiyah Bryant’s hand moments before a Columbus officer shot her dead.
NBC also deceptively edited the 911 call to omit the part where the caller says a girl was “trying to stab us.” NBC anchor Lester Holt began the segment by showing a picture of a smiling Ma’Kiyah Bryant to make her look innocent. Omitting the fact that the teen was wielding a large knife and attempting to stab someone is willful deception.
Racial tensions have been high for over a year following the release of bodycam footage of George Floyd’s death. Ironically, the Columbus Police Department released this particular video within hours of the incident in hopes that it would let the world see it was clearly an appropriate use of force. So far, Black Lives Matter, Lebron James, and others have not been impressed, pushing for more riots.
NBC News is, by the very nature of their existence, a journalistic company that supposed to report the truth. But somewhere along the line they and others missed the memo.
Whoever produced and/or edited the report on NBC News did everything they could to downplay the fact that Ma’Khia Bryant was trying to stab and kill people. They desperately want the race war to heat up.
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