{"id":231221,"date":"2021-04-09T07:31:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T07:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=231221"},"modified":"2021-04-10T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T06:00:36","slug":"ap-wording-suggests-vehicle-killed-capitol-police-veteran-not-murderer-behind-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=231221","title":{"rendered":"AP Wording Suggests Vehicle Killed Capitol Police Veteran, Not Murderer Behind the Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Joseph Watson \u2013 SUMMIT News April 8, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>The Associated Press was criticized for how it worded a tweet about the U.S. Capitol Police veteran who was killed last week, shifting the blame onto the vehicle rather than the murderer behind the wheel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As soon as news broke of an attack on the Capitol on Friday, leftist commentators rushed to blame white people as they do after every single mass shooting or act of violence.<\/p>\n<p>However, the culprit was soon named as 25-year-old Noah Green, a black Nation of Islam follower. He was shot dead by cops after launching a vehicle and knife attack that left Officer William Evans fighting for his life. Evans subsequently succumbed to his injuries in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to the AP, Green didn\u2019t ram the vehicle into Evans, the vehicle apparently controlled itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. Capitol Police veteran killed last week is being remembered as a man with a sense of humor who loved sports and was most proud of being a dad. William Evans died when a car rammed into him and another officer at a barricade near the Capitol,\u201d stated the tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The U.S. Capitol Police veteran killed last week is being remembered as a man with a sense of humor who loved sports and was most proud of being a dad. William Evans died when a car rammed into him and another officer at a barricade near the Capitol. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zs4J4OfT7a\">https:\/\/t.co\/Zs4J4OfT7a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AP Politics (@AP_Politics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Politics\/status\/1379401515094409219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m confused, this tweet is missing information about the race of the perpetrator. Is this not an important detail?\u201d asked one respondent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople dont kill people, cars do,\u201d responded Tim Pool.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">people dont kill people, cars do <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uLaQLDxRQ3\">https:\/\/t.co\/uLaQLDxRQ3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Pool (@Timcast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Timcast\/status\/1379804764708425734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Journalists are at it again <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nIZUmHrvr9\">pic.twitter.com\/nIZUmHrvr9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1379818637985472514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One wonders if the reporting would have been phrased differently if a right-wing extremist had committed the murder.<\/p>\n<p>This is by no means the first time media outlets have used mealy mouthed wording to shield the perpetrators of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the entire summer, CNN and others repeatedly referred to Black Lives Matter rioting, looting and burning down of buildings as \u201cmostly peaceful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BBC News also dropped a clanger when the broadcaster tweeted, \u201c27 police officers injured during largely peaceful anti-racism protests in London.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which is like saying \u201cthousands killed after largely peaceful September flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">27 police officers injured during largely peaceful anti-racism protests in London <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vIq1VL1aiT\">https:\/\/t.co\/vIq1VL1aiT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNews\/status\/1269574979680702470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/04\/08\/ap-wording-suggests-vehicle-killed-capitol-police-veteran-not-murderer-behind-the-wheel\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the age of mass Silicon Valley censorship It is crucial that we stay in touch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pjwshop.com\/\">I need you to sign up for my free newsletter <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/newsletter\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Support my sponsor \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/TURBOFORCE\">Turbo Force<\/a> \u2013 a supercharged boost of clean energy without the comedown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Also, I urgently need your financial support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/paul-joseph-watson\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would the wording have been different if a right-wing extremist had committed the murder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":231223,"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":[61,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231221","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231225,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231221\/revisions\/231225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}