Wait a min, I thought the red pickup truck from the Jazmin Barnes story was from her family identifying it as the suspect vehicle. Obviously the shock and trauma of seeing their kid die next to them played a role in the eyewitness ID'd being wrong.
But forreal Chico, if it happens and the parents tell the cops the shooter was a white guy in a red pickup truck, and the police go to the media with that information, do you expect the media to sit on that before they get better info or roll with it?
As much as I hate to say it, "7 year old innocent kid dies in a drive-by shooting where someone else was the intended target" is a juicy headline and guaranteed to get clicks. Hence why they put that shit front and center.
Then later when it comes out the shooters were 2 kids in a rental who thought they were doing some retaliation shit, I'm sure that article was posted too. Maybe not in the same spot as the first article, (I'm guessing it depends on previous articles, if interest was still high then possibly but if it's not generating as many clicks then probably not).
My problem is you're blaming the media for misreporting info here when the cops were the ones that said their suspect is a white guy in a red pickup. Where did the cops get that info from? The family. The same family who was in shock and hysteria from getting shot in a drive-by.
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Before Black's arrest, police released a sketch of the suspect, which included descriptions from Jazmine's mother and three sisters. Authorities said the sketch depicted a white man in his 40s.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/06/us/te...ion/index.html
Also, right now at this moment, the Jazmin Barnes arrest story is literally the top headline on CNN's main page.
https://www.cnn.com/