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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC (MSNOW) reporter is lying about conditions in MN.
Noem said ice was trying to dig themselves out of snow banks which was somehow part of the excuse for cold-blooded murder. Bullshit!
The reporter speaking to this (just now) said that they dealt with a lot of black ice and precarious conditions getting to the scene. Absolute garbage! There is no black ice when its 38° outside. The snow is melting, driving conditions are safe today.
There was no ice vehicle stuck in a snowbank being impeded by the poor woman who was murdered.
I have no idea why the reporter would lie for Noem.
haele
(15,093 posts)Local reporter would know better, National reporter might just be talking off the top of their head in an attempt to sound like they're considering all the contributing conditions.
mzmolly
(52,653 posts)earlier today. Its one thing to consider conditions. Its another to make them up.
senseandsensibility
(24,259 posts)and I know that Alex Tabet has received a lot of criticism (he's the MSNOW reporter) but if you think that's bad, Whitney Wild on CNN seems to be auditioning for FAUX. During several "hits" she spoke among a yelling crowd so that you could not understand her or the crowd. She was doing this to emphasize how rowdy and out of control the crowd was. The way I know this is because when asked, she put the microphone closer to her mouth and it was easy to hear her. Yet she had to be asked to do it every time they returned to her. Then she kept blaming the "local" law enforcement and repeating that that's who the crowd was mad at, not ICE. Even Dana Bash had to correct her on that one. She then kept tying this incident into the George Floyd protests in an obvious effort to scare the public about "violent" protestors when it was ICE that killed someone. Sorry for the long post but it was jaw droppingly bad reporting.
mzmolly
(52,653 posts)No wonder our country is going down the shitter.
senseandsensibility
(24,259 posts)and if she had changed her tune. She gave a more balanced report, kind of a he-said she-said tone quoting Noem and then Jacob Frey who called reports of self defense "bullshit". But then she again inexplicably said the crowd was angry at local police, and called the crowd angry when she was surrounded by peaceful people milling around.
mzmolly
(52,653 posts)He was probably just trying to be fair and is not used to Minnesota winters.
I know this was a traumatic day for him and others who witnessed the murder and the aftermath.
sboatcar
(727 posts)Their narrative is 100% bullshit. I live in the neighborhood, and unless they drove directly into the snowbanks like idiots, there's no way they'd be stuck. Also, in running errands now, I've seen at least a dozen black SUVs with blacked out windows and out of state plates driving all over south Minneapolis. Things might get out of hand here.
mzmolly
(52,653 posts)RockRaven
(18,740 posts)Seems pretty obvious to me.
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,386 posts)Sweet Rosie Red
(9 posts)Mr Sweet and I were out driving around South Nashville and arrived home about the time this happened. Small patches of melting ice in parking lots, roads were clear and plowed, Where did ICE find a snow bank to get stuck in?
I mourn for the family, community and country. And I am pissed beyond expression. No Human Being is illegal!