4-Year-Old Taken Out-of-Context To Sound Thug

MRCTVone | August 1, 2011
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A CBS news station is under fire after it misquoted a 4-year-old boy making him purposely sound violent on the air. In the video, the child tells a reporter from WBBM that the shootings don't scare him and that, when he grows up, "I'm going to have me a gun." The comment made it seem like the streets of Chicago had a future criminal on their hands. But the comment was taken out of context as the station only aired the comment and not what came after. "I want to be a police officer," said the kid. WBBM TV's reporter responded, "Well then you will have a gun for sure."