{"id":1186910,"date":"2022-01-04T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1186910"},"modified":"2022-01-04T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:50:07","slug":"remarkable-act-of-victim-blaming-ap-slammed-for-running-smear-piece-on-ashli-babbitt-thats-not-what-they-did-for-george-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remarkable-act-of-victim-blaming-ap-slammed-for-running-smear-piece-on-ashli-babbitt-thats-not-what-they-did-for-george-floyd\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Remarkable Act Of Victim-Blaming\u2019: AP Slammed For Running \u2018Smear\u2019 Piece On Ashli Babbitt. That\u2019s Not What They Did For George Floyd."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fremarkable-act-of-victim-blaming-ap-slammed-for-running-smear-piece-on-ashli-babbitt-thats-not-what-they-did-for-george-floyd%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1186910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cThere is a reason the regime will smear Ashli Babbitt over her \u2018past\u2019 and promotes George Floyd as a martyr of excessive force,\u201d Jack Posobiec wrote.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There is a reason the regime will smear Ashli Babbitt over her \u2018past\u2019 and promotes George Floyd as a martyr of excessive force<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1478037602217467908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiberals get enraged when news outlets dig up dirt on the past of unarmed victims of police shootings in order to show they were \u2018no angels\u2019: i.e. to justify the shooting,\u201d highlighted Glenn Greenwald. \u201cApparently it\u2019s OK sometimes: here\u2019s HuffPost on how Ashli Babbitt was no angel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Liberals get enraged when news outlets dig up dirt on the past of unarmed victims of police shootings in order to show they were \u201cno angels\u201d: i.e. to justify the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it\u2019s OK sometimes: here\u2019s HuffPost on how Ashli Babbitt was no angel:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S88SyDthiw\">https:\/\/t.co\/S88SyDthiw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1478084512701722627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is the media obsessed with smearing Ashli Babbitt\u2019s name almost a year after her passing?\u201d questioned Brigitte Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Why is the media obsessed with smearing Ashli Babbitt\u2019s name almost a year after her passing?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACTBrigitte\/status\/1478090826366476292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notably, the officer who fatally shot Babbitt, who stood at 5 feet, 2 inches, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ashli-babbitt-investigation-no-charges-for-officer\/\">never had any charges brought against him<\/a>. When the AP covered the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/virus-outbreak-us-news-ap-top-news-hip-hop-and-rap-houston-a55d2662f200ead0da4fed9e923b60a7\">George Floyd<\/a>, the outlet ran a 55 paragraph story underscoring Floyd\u2019s upbringing in poverty, his athletic talent, and how much he was beloved in his hometown. The AP notedly glossed over Floyd\u2019s lengthy rap sheet \u2014 which totaled five sentences:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-87 paragraph-0-2-7\"><em>Between 1997 and 2005, Floyd was arrested several times on drug and theft charges, spending months in jail. \u2026&nbsp;In August 2007, Floyd was arrested and charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Investigators said he and five other men barged into a woman\u2019s apartment, and Floyd pushed a pistol into her abdomen before searching for items to steal. Floyd pleaded guilty in 2009 and was sentenced to five years in prison. By the time he was paroled, in January 2013, he was nearing 40.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The AP coverage on Floyd\u2019s \u201ccomplicated life\u201d opened with the following anecdote:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-87 paragraph-0-2-7\"><em>Years before a bystander\u2019s video of George Floyd\u2019s last moments turned his name into a global cry for justice, Floyd trained a camera on himself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-87 paragraph-0-2-7\"><em>\u201cI just want to speak to you all real quick,\u201d Floyd says in one video, addressing the young men in his neighborhood who looked up to him. His 6-foot-7 frame crowds the picture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-87 paragraph-0-2-7\"><em>\u201cI\u2019ve got my shortcomings and my flaws and I ain\u2019t better than nobody else,\u201d he says. \u201cBut, man, the shootings that\u2019s going on, I don\u2019t care what \u2019hood you\u2019re from, where you\u2019re at, man. I love you and God loves you. Put them guns down.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how Babbitt\u2019s \u201ccomplex\u201d story opened:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\"><em>The first time Celeste Norris laid eyes on Ashli Babbitt, the future insurrectionist had just rammed her vehicle three times with an SUV and was pounding on the window, challenging her to a fight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\"><em>Norris says the bad blood between them began in 2015, when Babbitt engaged in a monthslong extramarital affair with Norris\u2019 longtime live-in boyfriend. When she learned of the relationship, Norris called Babbitt\u2019s husband and told him she was cheating.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\"><em>\u201cShe pulls up yelling and screaming,\u201d Norris said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, recounting the July 29, 2016, road-rage incident in Prince Frederick, Maryland. \u201cIt took me a good 30 seconds to figure out who she was. \u2026 Just all sorts of expletives, telling me to get out of the car, that she was going to beat my ass.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\"><em>Terrified and confused, Norris dialed 911 and waited for law enforcement. Babbitt was later charged with numerous misdemeanors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press this week ran a 49-paragraph story some online have likened to a \u201csmear\u201d piece on Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old U.S. military veteran who was fatally shot by police in the Capitol during the January 6 riot. \u201cEx-President Donald Trump and his supporters have sought to portray Ashli Babbitt as a righteous martyr. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}