By Jared Harris
Cops are still facing fury over the shooting of a 13-year-old boy despite proof that the “child” was not only a 34-year-old man but was also armed and dangerous.
The reports of the shooting victim’s age first broke late Tuesday night amid the chaos in New York City.
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“A 13 year old ‘had a gun’ and the NYPD shot him 19 times but when a white man walks around in public with a huge a– gun they don’t do jack s—,” journalist David Leavitt wrote on Twitter.
It’s unclear how many people his false claim has reached, but a video accompanying his post has over 13 million views. Similar misleading posts remain up across social media.
The rumor spread as a multitude of accounts repeated the fake news.
Less than two hours after the shooting, police were already working to correct the fake news.
“This is inaccurate information,” New York City Police Department Chief Terence Monahan wrote in response to rumors on Twitter. “The armed man who was shot by police was 34-years-old and had just shot another man.”
Speaking to reporters, Monahan explained that the man killed by police is believed to be behind the shooting of another man.
When police found the suspect hiding, officers spotted a gun in his hand. After repeated commands to drop the firearm, the cops eventually opened fire, killing the suspect.
Monahan said body camera footage and videos recorded by bystanders back up his account of the shooting.
Despite the chief’s statement that officers were responding to potential violence from a suspect, leftists quickly shifted their narrative to focus on the number of times officers shot the armed 34-year-old.
Of the rounds fired by ten of the responding cops, 19 supposedly found their way into the suspect’s body, giving anti-cop social media users ample fodder for more outrage.
“19 times” soon began trending on Twitter as users shifted their outrage from the supposed age of the victim to the number of times police supposedly shot the gunman.
As protests against police brutality and riots continue for the second week, this won’t be the last time we see fake news used to hurt the credibility of law enforcement.
Author: Jared Harris
Source: Western Journal: Here's the Truth Behind the '13-Year-Old Boy' Killed by Police Tuesday
Most media tell lies. They also make comments that they know will cause unrest in communities. Like Nora O'Donnell on CBS commenting about the Avery shooting. When she says, " An unarmed black man was gunned down while jogging." Instead of, " A man was shot today while jogging." What makes her think his color had anything to do with his death? The same with Floyd's death. When she interviewed a black man that had nothing to do with it and he said, "Here I am, still alive. But as a black man in America, I don't know for how long." Then she stared into the camera and said," Let that sink in." She was insinuating racism in Floyd's death.…
Not all that long ago, the media's method was to lie, then deny. With the current crop of media morons it is just lie and go silent when the lie is exposed or make ridiculous claims like the lie was true true but inaccurate. The real problem is that it is the initial impact that seems to stick to the ignorant who believe the invented, fake news of the MSM, and initial impressions can be hard to overcome. The underlying issue should always be seen in terms of the loss of freedom that the lies cause.
Seems typical of the DEMS/RINOS/LIBERALS/MEDIA that like to lie and cause mayhem....Too bad there is no truth to media stories and their corrupt/evil reporters.......
The media is responsible for inciting this violence. Including CBS, ABC, AND NBC. They keep making comments about racism and do not interview anyone to ask them why they think Floyd's color had anything to do with this. Only people who claim his color was why he was killed. Must be a way to control those a-holes.
Liberal media neve say he may of had more than one gun just he had one but if he would drop it he was a target for his try at shooting cops. Liberals it’s called self defense cops had no idea what all he may of had besides that gun.