Both Friday editions of ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News highlighted a Minnesota family that got caught in the chaos that ensued on Wednesday after an ICE officer shot a Venezuelan illegal immigrant in the leg after he fled a traffic stop. However, both shows omitted the detail that the man fled only to eventually join in with two other men—one of whom had a snow shovel—and attack the pursuing agent.
ABC reporter Matt Rivers was highlighting the case of the Jackson family, who were returning home from their oldest son’s basketball game when he declared, “On Wednesday, Destiny Jackson had her husband and six kids in the car, including a 6-month-old, when she got caught in chaotic protests after ICE shot a Venezuelan man during a traffic stop.”
Jackson recalled the scene, “And then, like, one of them, or, yeah, like, one or two of them, stopped at my car and was just like, ‘Get the F out of here,’ and I'm like, ‘We're trying, but—’ In that instance, I’m like, ‘Don't you put your foot on that gas,’ because I'd be damned if they try to shoot us like Renee, by saying we hit them with our car… Immediately, once they got behind our car, they rolled tear gas under it.”
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. steve malzberg
. steve malzberg
