The trio of PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks assembled on Friday to discuss the situation in Minneapolis. While Bennett failed in his moderating duties to mention new evidence that would seem to justify the ICE agent acting in self-defense, Capehart was still certain that he was in the wrong. Brooks, meanwhile, claimed he did not wish to pass judgement before an investigation but nevertheless agreed that ICE has been “acting like thugs.”
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Bennett then turned to Brooks, “David, video of the shooting spread almost instantly. And just as quickly, the White House and DHS moved to label it an act of domestic terrorism, that the ICE agent, they said, was acting in self-defense. What does this whole thing reveal about how narratives are being set before investigations are even complete?”
Not just the White House and DHS, liberals including Frey and Capehart had their own narrative that they were pushing prior to an investigation, which came before the new video Bennett omitted, which showed an officer demanding Good and her wife, Rebecca, get out of the car, and then Rebecca urging Good to “drive, baby, drive.”
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