Posted on 12/08/2016 12:15:34 PM PST by Gamecock
An NBC News story about the mistrial of a former South Carolina officer charged with fatally shooting a black man was pulled from the Today show’s website because the network apparently included an image of a protest in Baltimore.
The segment aired Tuesday on NBC’s Today and was entitled “Prosecutor vows to retry Michael Slager after mistrial in Walter Scott shooting.”
Slager, a former North Charleston police officer, is charged with murder in the April 2015 death of Walter Scott, a black motorist. The judge in Slager’s trial this week declared a mistrial after jurors deadlocked on whether to convict or acquit Slager. Prosecutors have said they will retry the former lawman.
The segment that aired Tuesday on NBC has been pulled from the network’s website; however, the headline remains, and under it is an editor’s note: “This video erroneously included an image from an event not related to the Scott trial, and has been removed.”
An NBC spokeswoman told The Baltimore Sun that the network would make an “on-air correction and apology” during the Today show Thursday.
Baltimore saw several days of unrest after the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died from injuries suffered while in police custody. The image used by the Today show was credited to The Associated Press and appeared in The Sun. It shows Malik Shabazz of Black Lawyers for Justice addressing a group of protesters outside the Baltimore Police Department days after Gray’s death.
Gray died 15 days after Scott was killed.
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This isn’t an accident. It’s deliberate and they thought they could get away with it.
And once upon a time, they could.
If you don’t have a protest or riot, fake one...That’s the Lame Stream Media we have....
It's not like NBC blew up a car on purpose without telling their viewers that the explosion was rigged .. but blamed said explosion on the car manufacturer anyway!!!
Ummm ... wait ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtpMzGN9uWc
More intentional fake news from fake NBC. They haven’t learned a thing - their commie ideology is more important to them than their reputation or the truth.
Exploding GM trucks? Brian Williams? Editing 911 tapes?
“Baltimore saw several days of unrest after the death of Freddie Gray, “
They call what went on in Baltimore UNREST ?
I wonder how they would define “riot”?
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Media losers and liars!
One thing for sure, Slager murdered the guy.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
In this case the parent company is Comcast.
I agree.
Don’t see how there was a mistrial, unless there were jurists that wouldn’t even vote to convict Hitler.
How many thousands “hate crime” hoaxes has the media headlined over the last 30 years?
They are the primary spreads of fake news.
Facebook and Google need to censor NBC being a fake news source.
When white college students do it after a sports victory...
I dunno; maybe they thought they all looked the same anyway...
BTW, what is the white sign some guy is holding up in the picture? Did they use photoshop to white out a local name so they could use the photo for Charleston SC agitprop purposes?
Gamecock, what’s with the white sign the guy is holding in the protest photo? Did the Today Show have to photoshop out some local wording so they could use it for Charleston?
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