Black Lives Matter? CBS/NBC Ignore Black Teen Killed in CHOP Zone

Nicholas Fondacaro | June 22, 2020
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Even though the liberal media had insisted the protesters were peaceful, over the weekend (Saturday morning and Sunday night) two people were killed and one critically injured in Seattle’s so-called “Capital Hill Occupy Protest” zone (formerly the “autonomous zone”). At least two of the victims were black. Occupiers of the “police-free zone” actively blocked EMS and police from getting to the victims. And neither CBS News nor NBC News gave the shootings any airtime during their flagship newscasts.

ABC’s World News Tonight was the only network newscast to cover any of the killings, but only on Sunday. Come Monday, when anchor David Muir was back in his seat, they kept far away from the story. Sunday’s World News Tonight was also the only newscast to mention the staggering amount of shootings in Chicago over the Father’s Day weekend.

“A violent Father’s Day weekend in the city of Chicago. At least 60 shot as of this morning, nine of them fatally,” reported Sunday anchor Whit Johnson. “That includes three teenagers, and a 3-year-old boy, who was struck by gunfire in his father's car. Homicides in Chicago up 22 percent this year.” Those numbers have since climbed to over 100 shot and 14 killed.

On the deadly shooting inside CHOP, Johnson noted: “A 19-year-old killed inside that roughly six-block area. Seized by police – protesters that is, and authorities say protesters prevented them from getting to the crime scene and the victim.” Of course, he hid the victim’s race.

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