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.
Need to ban these fake news sites, I agree!
Did you notice the white out that was digitally applied to the sign the protester is holding up? I didn’t notice, but my wife did.
It looks like someone photoshopped out the protest sign so that it could be used for the fake Charleston protest.
Thank heavens for photoshop ! ! !
Why is the dude holding up a white sign? The media apparently thinks we all are stupid.
Wonder what the sign said? I am looking at the baltimore riot photos for the original, but there are thousands!
the photo has to be out there.... these Control-Left staffers do not get up off their behinds.
I searched for ---> Malik Shabazz Black Lawyers for Justice Baltimore Police Department
Hope somebody's ass at NBC is in deep, deep trouble.
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Apparently, glare has made the sign white. In the original photo, the text on the sign is unreadable and looks white.
Thank you for the Malik Shabazz lead.
Apparently, glare had made the sign unreadable and white looking.
Perhaps the sign was only printed on one side and the holder was in the process of raising it seconds before the picture was taken and we see the back of it.
But then we should see the stick it was attached to.
HMMMmmm...
After looking at the pix again; it has no stick: being held by hands at the sides.
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