Even though my collection of posts debunking the anti-rights claims of the Commercial Appeal, denouncing their privacy-invading database, and disproving their copy-pasting of erroneous VPC studies is still in existance and has been moved to greener pastures, I have largely given up on addressing the newspaper’s incessant anti-rights overtones, innuendo, and idiocy… for reasons like this:
A man wielding a knife was shot and killed about 3 p.m. Friday in a Family Dollar store parking lot in Frayser.
Just a guy holding a knife, and he was shot and killed? What the hell is up with that? Well, the predictably anti-self-defense Commercial Appeal leaves out a few pertinent details:
Police say a man with a knife raced through the parking lot just after 3:00 p.m.. Witnesses say the man chased a delivery driver and others, but was killed when he tried to lunge his knife at one driver leaving the parking lot. The driver pulled a gun and killed his attacker on the spot.
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Witnesses say two little girls were inside the car when the attacker lunged at the driver.
“He had his two step-daughters in the car with him. So, he really was trying to look out for them when he shot him,” says Brandon Jones, who says the girls appeared to be younger than ten. “Yeah, they saw everything that happened. One of them was real shaken.”
Huh. Well, that certainly changes the tone of the “police report”. Unfortunately, it gets worse – back to the Commercial Appeal‘s take on things:
The suspect waited in the parking lot after the shooting until police arrived and took him into custody, according to officers.
Well, yeah, that would make sense – after all, the suspect was full of holes at this point, and probably is not going to be going anywhere any time soon…
Oh. Wait. By “suspect”, the Commercial Appeal means the armed citizen who defended himself and his two small children from a depraved, knife-wielding attacker. So what is he “suspected” of? Nothing.
A young man was patted down and placed in the rear of a squad car. At this point, investigators do not consider this a murder, rather an apparent case of self defense.
As usual, the Commercial Appeal manages to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that some “authorized journalists” and media outlets are simply incapable of abandoning their personal bigotry, even for a four-line news blurb. Good job, numbnuts.
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