{"id":2218806,"date":"2024-04-11T18:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T22:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-nominates-their-new-george-floyd\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T18:56:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T22:56:33","slug":"the-media-nominates-their-new-george-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-nominates-their-new-george-floyd\/","title":{"rendered":"The media announces their pick for the new face of justice: George Floyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fthe-media-nominates-their-new-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=2218806&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>The incident involving\u2062 Dexter Reed, a \u200dman charged with firearm offenses in Illinois, resulted in a\u2062 police shooting, sparking controversy and\u200b media \u2064coverage. Reed&#8217;s actions, \u2063including \u2062firing at officers during\u200d a traffic stop, have\u2064 led to debates about excessive force and the portrayal of individuals involved in such incidents. The media&#8217;s coverage and framing of events have stirred public discourse and differing viewpoints on law\u200d enforcement encounters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, a man in his mid-20\u2019s named Dexter Reed was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/dexter-reed-shooting-questions-over-traffic-stop-cpd-use-of-force-remains-after-body-camera-video-released\/3406215\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">charged<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  with three counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and one count of possession of a firearm with a revoked \u201cFirearms Owners Identification Card,\u201d which is required in the state of Illinois before you can possess a weapon or ammunition. Because no one really spends time in jail in Illinois anymore, Reed was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/dexter-reed-shooting-questions-over-traffic-stop-cpd-use-of-force-remains-after-body-camera-video-released\/3406215\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">free<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  on pretrial release for these felony charges as recently as this past March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It goes without saying that at that point, any functioning member of society who somehow found himself charged with these crimes would try to lay low for a bit. Maybe they\u2019d keep their illegal guns at home, for example. But Dexter Reed did not choose that approach because he\u2019s not a functioning member of society. Instead, in March, Reed went for a drive in an SUV wearing a ski mask and carrying a firearm. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s when police say they noticed that Reed was breaking yet another law: he wasn\u2019t wearing a seatbelt. Instead of cooperating with the traffic stop, this is what happened. I\u2019m going to show two angles of this incident from police body cams. The second body cam is from an officer who was shot as this unfolded. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s clear from this footage that Dexter Reed is wearing a ski mask and he\u2019s not cooperating with the officers. They tell him to unlock the door and stop rolling up the windows, and he refuses for quite some time. Then the officers see something that clearly puts them in fear of their life. They back up, and shots begin ringing out. One officer is hit in the wrist, and he survives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2024\/04\/08\/video-fatal-chicago-police-shooting-humboldt-park-dexter-reed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chicago Sun Times<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cAlderman Brian Hopkins, chairman of the City Council\u2019s Public Safety Committee, said he\u2019s been told 26-year-old Reed fired 11 shots through his car window in what Hopkins called \u2018an attempt to kill police officers.\u2019 An empty gun was recovered at the scene, Hopkins said. \u201cHe fired 11 rounds at these police officers before he was eventually killed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As of now, police are still investigating this shooting. But Chicago\u2019s Civilian Office of Police Accountability has determined that the evidence \u201cappears to confirm\u201d that Reed fired the first shot. And the video by itself shows that pretty clearly.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/240411me\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-furious-ca-restaurant-owner-confronts-inspectors-issuing-citation-are-you-gonna-pay-my-rent\/\" title=\"WATCH: Furious CA Restaurant Owner Confronts Inspectors Issuing Citation: \u2018Are You Gonna Pay My Rent?\u2019\">social media user<\/a> on Twitter, the account \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ExposeDarkDeeds\/status\/1778286067931623896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Expose Them<\/a>,\u201d synced up footage from two of the body cams that Chicago police have released. The top bodycam is the one I just showed of the officer who got hit. The other bodycam is from a third officer on the scene. You can see that the first officer gets hit before the other officers fire:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The footage is pretty clear evidence that the officers defended themselves. They should end the discussion entirely. But that hasn\u2019t happened, because even before these body cams were released, professional agitators engaged in a concerted effort to turn Dexter Reed into a martyr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A former Chicago mayoral candidate and BLM activist named Ja\u2019Mal Green began <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cwbchicago.com\/2024\/04\/videos-of-fatal-chicago-police-shootout-to-be-released-today-its-not-the-things-that-youve-been-told-top-cop-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">posting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  on social media this weekend that the footage would show an \u201cexecution.\u201d He also \u201cwarned\u201d about possible riots, which of course is exactly what Ja\u2019Mal Green wants to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And Green\u2019s strategy appears to be working, at least so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week crowds turned up outside a police station to heckle officers and make some of the most strained arguments imaginable. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So they\u2019re saying the cops couldn\u2019t possibly have known whether he was breaking the seat belt law, because he was driving with heavily tinted windows, which is also against the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apparently in BLM circles this is seen as a sort of checkmate, even though they\u2019ve just provided an additional reason why police would have wanted to pull this guy over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then they argue that there\u2019s no need for \u201carmed officers\u201d to enforce seat belt laws. Well, apparently there is, especially in a city like Chicago \u2014 because you never know when someone who\u2019s not wearing a seatbelt might be out of jail on a felony gun charge, still packing heat and wearing a ski mask and ready to shoot at you for no reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of that is irrelevant anyway. Even if they had no reason to pull him over \u2014 which they did \u2014 it still obviously doesn\u2019t justify him shooting at the cops. You don\u2019t get to shoot at the cops if you disagree with their reason for stopping you. I\u2019ve been pulled over for seatbelt violations before. I found it annoying. I never considered murder as a response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the push to portray Dexter Reed as a victim continues anyway, because none of this is really about the facts. Alleged academics are getting involved, too. An English professor at Amherst named \u201cFrank Leon Roberts\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DrFrankRoberts\/status\/1778093938550706269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote on<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  social media:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His name was Dexter Reed. Murdered in broad daylight by the Chicago Police Department. 96 shots in 41 seconds. 26 years old. His crime: not having his seatbelt on. This is America. Defund and abolish the police.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A few hours after the professor wrote that tweet, he deleted it and erased his entire Twitter account, maybe because it was a little too ridiculous \u2014 even by the standards of Amherst. But it wasn\u2019t too absurd for the corporate press. They\u2019ve also done everything they can to portray the police as the aggressors here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s how the Washington Post covered Dexter Reed\u2019s traffic stop, for example. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/04\/10\/dexter-reed-shooting-video-chicago-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">headline<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  reads: \u201cPolice fire 96 shots in 41 seconds, killing Black man during traffic stop.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So there\u2019s nothing in there about what Dexter Reed did during the traffic stop. There\u2019s no mention of the fact he opened fire on police officers. In fact, if you read the story, you won\u2019t find any mention of Dexter Reed shooting his handgun until the eighth paragraph of the story. That\u2019s not an exaggeration. They just ignore it until eight paragraphs in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, here\u2019s what the Washington Post talks about first. This is from the beginning of their article. It\u2019s as emotional and over-the-top as they possibly could have done it: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dexter Reed\u2019s mother remembers the last time she saw her son alive. \u2026. \u2018He was just riding around in his car,\u2019 Dexter\u2019s mother, Nicole Banks, [said] on Tuesday, as she broke down in tears. \u2018They killed him.\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the footage they\u2019re referencing:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So Reed\u2019s mother is out at press conferences crying and fainting on camera. I\u2019m sure she is legitimately distraught given that her child was killed. But as always, there is no self-analysis, no moment of honest reflection where she wonders how she raised a child who would throw his life away for no reason during a traffic stop. Instead she blames the cops \u2014 and the lawsuit, I\u2019m sure, will be close behind. And the Washington Post decides to lead with this, instead of an accurate description of what happened during the traffic stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s hard to think of a more deliberately dishonest way to frame the actions of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nfl-running-back-ryan-grant-puts-up-bail-for-accused-nypd-cop-shooter-nelson-pizarro\/\" title=\"Former NFL Running Back Ryan Grant Puts up Bail for Accused NYPD Cop Shooter Nelson Pizarro\">attempted cop-killer<\/a>. And just for good measure, the Post puts a giant photo of Dexter Reed at some graduation ceremony from 5five years ago at the top of the article. They leave off his mug shot from his felony firearms arrest. This is the way it always goes with BLM martyrs. You never see graduation photos of anyone who makes the news for any reason \u2014 unless it\u2019s a black guy killed by the cops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Twitter, a writer named Daniel Friedman <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanFriedman81\/status\/1778253473441558700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pointed out<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  the history of this tactic. It began after Michael Brown was shot ten years ago after fighting with a cop and trying to take his gun. Media outlets went on Brown\u2019s Facebook, and then they used unflattering photos of Brown flashing gang signs in their coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Friedman writes, \u201cBlack Twitter reacted angrily. They said that the media was using images of Brown that stereotyped him. There was a trending hashtag \u201c#if they gunned me down\u201d of college students or professionals posting pictures of themselves looking like thugs in solidarity with Brown.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the media relented and swapped out the thug photos for graduation photos. And they\u2019ve been doing that ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this case, the Washington Post wasn\u2019t alone in whitewashing Reed\u2019s actions. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/09\/us\/dexter-reed-chicago-police-shooting-video\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CNN<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ran a similar headline that made no mention of Dexter Reed shooting at officers<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201c96 shots fired in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tyre-nichols-family-filing-civil-lawsuit-in-memphis-to-get-truth-on-traffic-stop\/\" title=\"Tyre Nichols family filing civil lawsuit in Memphis to get 'truth' on traffic stop\">fatal traffic stop<\/a>. Here\u2019s what the bodycam footage shows.\u201d The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AP\/status\/1778251706389688495\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AP<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  reported<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cDeadly Chicago traffic stop where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-bury-key-detail-about-police-shooting-of-man-facing-gun-charges\/\" title=\"Media Downplay Important Information on Police Shooting of Suspect with Gun Charges\">police fired 96 shots raises<\/a> serious questions about use of force.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s almost comical when you picture the editors carefully trying to construct these headlines so that they don\u2019t mention the elephant in the room. It\u2019s like imagining someone trying to describe the maiden voyage of the Titanic without saying anything about the whole iceberg thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But I\u2019d be remiss if I mocked the media\u2019s ridiculous coverage of this episode without mentioning the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13293555\/black-lives-matter-protestors-chicago-police-dexter-reed-shooting.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daily Mail<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. They chose to portray Dexter Reed as an \u201caspiring broadcaster.\u201d So he\u2019s not an attempted cop killer \u2014 he\u2019s the next Tom Brokaw apparently<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Tuesday, Chicago Police released footage of the March 21 encounter which showed them firing 96 shots at Reed, even as he lay motionless on the ground outside his vehicle. The aspiring broadcaster\u2019s death has reignited conversations around excessive police force against black people, though officers maintain Reed opened fire first.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least they get around to suggesting that the officers were defending themselves. So there\u2019s that. It\u2019s easy to laugh at how absurd this is, but there\u2019s a point to it. BLM and their allies in the media are desperate to find a new George Floyd before the election. They know Democrats stand a very real chance of losing power in November. So they\u2019re using the same tactics they did four years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">George Floyd, we were told, wasn\u2019t a home invader, thief and drug addict. They <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2021\/03\/08\/remembering-george-floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">told us<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  he was a \u201cGentle giant\u201d trying to \u201cGet his life back on track.\u201d Now we\u2019re expected to believe that Dexter Reed is also some misunderstood pillar of the local community, instead of the degenerate he is. The plan is to cause riots, terrify everyone into voting the way they want, and force a \u201cnational reckoning on race\u201d to promote more of their mediocre allies into positions of power. And they plan to accomplish all of that by lying about a dead thug.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a strategy we\u2019re seeing more and more often as the election approaches. Last October, for example, the media tried to incite riots over the shooting death of Leonard Cure \u2014 a man who tried to kill a police officer on camera during a traffic stop. There\u2019s no dispute about this. It\u2019s on tape. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After seeing that footage, here was the Washington Post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/10\/18\/leonard-cure-exoneration-shooting-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">headline<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cDeputy fatally shoots man who served 16 years for wrongful conviction.\u201d The article begins: \u201cLeonard Cure, who was exonerated in 2020, was killed by a Georgia sheriff\u2019s deputy during a traffic stop Monday \u2026 The deputy used a Taser and a baton before shooting Cure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Post didn\u2019t get around to mentioning that Cure tried to murder the deputy until 14 paragraphs into the story. And even then, they describe it as carefully as they can. They say Cure was \u201cforcefully grappling with the deputy and pushing the deputy\u2019s head back with his hand.\u201d That\u2019s the Post\u2019s way of saying that he was trying to choke the officer to death. And of course, Ben Crump came out and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1716237599235326460\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">declared<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  that Cure had been shot simply for being black.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That effort didn\u2019t catch on in quite the way the media and BLM activists had hoped. So now they\u2019re trying again. And they will continue to try until one of two things happen. Either they get the riots they want and terrorize millions of people into voting for Democrats out of fear \u2014 or, for once, normal, sane people stand up and say what\u2019s obvious. And that\u2019s the fact that Dexter Reed and Leonard Cure and all of these BLM \u201cheroes\u201d are the dregs of society. They are not role models and they are not victims. They are, in fact, the cause of many serious problems that cities like Chicago are experiencing right now. That\u2019s the only message that can put an end to these riots before they start, and avert a repeat of the pillaging we saw in 2020. It happens to be a message that most Americans believe, even if they\u2019re afraid to say it. But as unpleasant as it may be, it\u2019s time we started saying it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his mid-20s, Dexter Reed, faced charges of firearm offenses in Illinois. He was accused of multiple counts, including possessing a firearm without a valid &#8220;Firearms Owners Identification Card.&#8221; This card is mandatory in Illinois for owning firearms or ammunition. 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