Posted on 07/29/2025 2:06:35 AM PDT by george76
CNN’s Erin Burnett is being skewered for reporting that the gunman who opened fire in a Midtown skyscraper — killing an NYPD cop and three others — was “possibly white” after viewing the initial security footage released immediately after Shane Tamura’s deadly rampage.
In the photos first shared online, the suit-clad Tamura, 27, was captured in broad daylight walking into 345 Park Avenue with a Palmetto State Armory AR-15 rifle in his hand.
CNN host Erin Burnett said that police knew the gunman had “sunglasses, mustache, male, possibly white” during a broadcast shortly after the shooting Monday evening.
The chilling image of Tamura with the AR-15, however, showed him with a possibly darker or ethnically ambiguous complexion.
Early police reports also suggested the suspect might be of Middle Eastern descent.
Online critics slammed Burnett’s statement for being too premature and presumptive.
He may be a bunch of different things, basically anything BUT white,” one internet commenter said.
“CNN should be shut down. They have not reported a truthful story in what seems like forever,” another commenter on X said.
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It’s obvious that Burnett and CNN wanted to blame the mass shooting on MAGA and Trump for white domestic terrorism. Despicable.
Mamdani’s =
MAD-MAN-I
Perfect
“The chilling image of Tamura with the AR-15, however, showed him with a possibly darker or ethnically ambiguous complexion.”
“POSSIBLY darker” - LOL!
She wanted him to be White. She wanted it so, SO bad.
Every lie told by the propaganda media is on the Internet forever, now available for AI to include when anyone does research on the topic. Even before AI they knew that lying for one to three three days, got all of the articles with the lie to the top of the list when anyone researched the topic. Forever people who consume only the propaganda media will be convinced that he was “possibly white”.
We probably only know about this shooting because the dumbass media initially thought he was white.
Yes. Planting a false narrative first is definitely the tactic. A lie goes half way around the world before the truth puts its shoes on.
In other words, business as usual at CNN.
To be fair, she was reporting what New York's finest had said.
The radical left is also pushing the same old lie that WM are the source of all or nearly all mass shootings.
In fact as of 2018 the % were very close to that of the overall population, actually LOWER for WMs.
WM= 53%
BM=20%
27% as Hispanic, Asian and “undefined”.
They are starting to hide stats like these now.
Only reading the words someone typed into the teleprompter.
“We probably only know about this shooting because the dumbass media initially thought he was white.”
…this!
Black face, but Asian eyes and Japanese surname.
Plus, he's from Hawaii, which has a large Japanese population.
“I assume he’s half African, half Japanese.”
I believe I heard that verified last night.
Hmm....a good idea for a website....MSM lies and misleading “information” spoken, written, and videoed. Updated daily.
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