The Minnesota Incident: A Case Study in Media Narrative Versus Reality

The Minnesota Incident: A Case Study in Media Narrative Versus Reality

A woman is dead in Minnesota. An ICE officer killed her. Those two facts are undisputed.  Everything else has become a Rorschach test for American politics.  Within hours of the incident, the narrative crystallized: federal agents had become death squads hunting immigrants.   Protests erupted. Politicians demanded accountability. Mainstream news ran wall-to-wall coverage of a deportation regime “gone too far.”  But here’s the question nobody’s a…

MINNESOTA INCIDENT --SOMETIMES IT'S ABOUT PERSPECTIVE

We have all seen the same footage, from several cameras, of the incident in Minnesota where a federal law enforcement officer shot and killed a woman who was accused of hitting him with her car. Yet opinion, for whatever an opinion is worth, is sharply divided. Some believe the shooting was just while others are demanding that the officer be charged with a crime, up to and including, murder. In this case, perspective is not necessarily about the…