{"id":210043,"date":"2020-07-09T06:27:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T06:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=210043"},"modified":"2020-07-12T07:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T07:55:55","slug":"abc-tweet-claims-blm-protester-died-from-luxury-car-hit-excludes-fact-that-driver-was-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=210043","title":{"rendered":"ABC Claims BLM Protester Died from &#8216;Luxury Car&#8217; Hit, Omits to Say Driver Was Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Madness Hub \u2013 July 8, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Liberal activists, especially those in the media, are masters at skewing language in order to further their narratives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Guns, for example, are often the \u201ckillers\u201d in homicides where the alleged perpetrator or perpetrators are among race or class groups which are inconvenient in furthering\u00a0those narratives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That is especially true if the victims of the crimes are also among the media\u2019s desired demographic \u2014 which includes racial or other minorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As a former establishment media social media manager, I know the rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There is an unspoken general rule for social media managers in newsrooms: If a minority person commits a crime, the reporter more often than not focuses on the weapon that was used in\u00a0crafting the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If a potentially dangerous criminal is on the lam, omit a description if that suspect happens to be non-white.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In similar crimes, ones where the perpetrators of violence are white, it is the individual, or the individual and the object, who are guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Objects used to hurt other people are personified through subtle language when headlines are crafted, and it is done to tell you a story about how dangerous white Americans, especially white American males, are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That logic now also applies to cars, or so it seems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">ABC News\u00a0demonstrated that on Twitter this past weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Two demonstrators, who were participating in a Black Lives Matter protest and who found an interstate in Washington state an appropriate place to demand justice for perceived social and racial inequities, were struck by the driver of a car.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Authorities say 24-year-old Summer Taylor and 32-year-old Diaz Love were struck by 27-year-old Dawit Kelete in the early hours of July 4 while both protesters were standing on I-5 in Seattle, according to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/741b01da9ce010717df1afca30afe09e?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=AP\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Associated Press<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Taylor later died, and Kelete has been arrested and was being held on bail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But the apparent problem for ABC News is that Kelete is a black man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What did the fine people running the far-left legacy network\u2019s\u00a0Twitter\u00a0account do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It looks very much like they improvised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cA young protester has died from injuries she suffered when a luxury car plowed into her and another woman during a Black Lives Matter protest Saturday on a Seattle freeway that has been shut down for days due to the civil unrest, police said,\u201d ABC News tweeted Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A young protester has died from injuries she suffered when a luxury car plowed into her and another woman during a Black Lives Matter protest Saturday on a Seattle freeway that has been shut down for days due to the civil unrest, police said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4VN3VeDMcK\">https:\/\/t.co\/4VN3VeDMcK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1279815682981535744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The car was described as a \u201cwhite Jaguar\u201d in an\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/protester-dies-struck-speeding-car-black-lives-matter\/story?id=71617592&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ABC News<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0story linked in the Twitter post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the absence of a white driver, or a weapon to sensationalize, the network narrowed in on the car.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Is there anything more privileged than a white Jaguar?<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here are two pictures of the suspect vehicle that struck two protesters on I-5 this morning. Investigation into motive and point of entry in to I-5 are still under investigation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gU1QH6TFTu\">pic.twitter.com\/gU1QH6TFTu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Trooper Rick Johnson (@wspd2pio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wspd2pio\/status\/1279373657354063873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The\u00a0social media\u00a0caption was so blatantly skewed that ABC News was roundly criticized by those who saw right through it.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I guess ABC used \u201cluxury\u201d car because they couldn\u2019t say Black driver hits White BLM protester<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Black, White &amp; Grey (@NBfromLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBfromLB\/status\/1279826860088705024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If the driver was white you can bet they wouldn\u2019t have written \u201cluxury car\u201d. When they can\u2019t use race they use class to add fire to their narrative. So unbelievably biased.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Hermes (@bluemangos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bluemangos\/status\/1279867365979820032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you can\u2019t divide through race, divide through class, status, or money.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matthew Wilson (@mtwilsonlaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtwilsonlaw\/status\/1279869511752171520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cBlack man strikes white protesters who were standing in the middle of an interstate\u201d wouldn\u2019t have helped to shape any opinions in favor of the left\u2019s endorsement of the\u00a0Black Lives Matter\u00a0movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is difficult to even find an image of Kelete posted online by a verified Twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">ABC News certainly hasn\u2019t posted one, though journalist\u00a0Andy Ngo\u00a0did:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Summer Taylor, a non binary Black Lives Matter activist who was hit by a car while protesting on the I-5 freeway in Seattle, has died. Dawit Kelete, who is black, is accused of being the driver &amp; was arrested. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lr6Jp3BkzO\">pic.twitter.com\/Lr6Jp3BkzO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Ng\u00f4 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1279640724770717696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The social media caption ABC decided on was also more than likely no error.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Maybe the network hoped its followers would associate luxury cars with wealthy white males.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Perhaps the\u00a0Disney-owned activist news organization hoped those simply skimming the post would make such an assumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It isn\u2019t that far-fetched.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The media, broadly speaking, wants to tell you a story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It\u2019s just not always the real story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They want to tell you a story that is framed in a way that furthers their narratives and their interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madnesshub.com\/2020\/07\/abc-tweet-claims-blm-protester-died.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a former establishment media social media manager, I know the rules. The media, broadly speaking, wants to tell you a story. It\u2019s just not always the real story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,38,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Race","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210043"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210063,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210043\/revisions\/210063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}