{"id":2531867,"date":"2026-01-09T08:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapos-analysis-of-the-minneapolis-shooting-is-propaganda\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:16:21","slug":"wapos-analysis-of-the-minneapolis-shooting-is-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapos-analysis-of-the-minneapolis-shooting-is-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo&#8217;s &#8216;Analysis&#8217; Of The Minneapolis Shooting Is Propaganda"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fwapos-analysis-of-the-minneapolis-shooting-is-propaganda%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=2531867&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>Shawn Fleetwood, writing for Teh Federalist, criticizes a Washington Post &#8220;analysis&#8221; of the Minneapolis incident in which an ICE agent fired at a driver. Fleetwood accuses the Post and its reporters (Aaron Davis and Jonathan Baran) of publishing dishonest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-ozy-medias-embarrassing-softball-interview-with-disgraced-ex-chairman-marc-lasry\/\" title=\"WATCH: Ozy Media\u2019s Embarrassing Softball Interview With Disgraced Ex...Chairman Marc Lasry\">partisan propaganda<\/a> that downplays the administration&#8217;s account that the driver disobeyed ICE and struck the agent with her vehicle.He says the Post&#8217;s frame-by-frame review &#8220;raises questions&#8221; about whether the agent was hit,but Fleetwood insists other publicly available video clearly shows a head-on collision that struck the agent.The piece is polemical in tone, portraying the Post as serving a Democratic, anti-ICE agenda and dismissing its reporting as misleading.The article is signed by Fleetwood and includes tags highlighting ICE, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">legacy media<\/a>, and media propaganda.  <\/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<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Washingtonpost.JPG\">Michael Fleischhacker\/Wikimedia Commons<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/09\/the-washington-posts-analysis-of-the-minneapolis-shooting-is-pure-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=The%20Washington%20Post%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%98Analysis%E2%80%99%20Of%20The%20Minneapolis%20Shooting%20Is%20Pure%20Propaganda&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/09\/the-washington-posts-analysis-of-the-minneapolis-shooting-is-pure-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=The%20Washington%20Post%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%98Analysis%E2%80%99%20Of%20The%20Minneapolis%20Shooting%20Is%20Pure%20Propaganda&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/09\/the-washington-posts-analysis-of-the-minneapolis-shooting-is-pure-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/09\/the-washington-posts-analysis-of-the-minneapolis-shooting-is-pure-propaganda\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=The%20Washington%20Post%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%98Analysis%E2%80%99%20Of%20The%20Minneapolis%20Shooting%20Is%20Pure%20Propaganda&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/09\/the-washington-posts-analysis-of-the-minneapolis-shooting-is-pure-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><em>Don&rsquo;t believe your lying eyes. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s effectively what the hoax-peddling Washington Post told its readers when it ran what can only be surmised as the most dishonest piece of left-wing propaganda published (so far) this year. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2058096234\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Splattered across the top of the outlet&rsquo;s homepage on Thursday was an &rdquo; analysis&rdquo; titled, &ldquo;Video shows ICE agent in Minneapolis fired at driver as vehicle veered past him.&rdquo; (An <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/GTrjR#selection-177.0-177.76\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">earlier version<\/a> of the article had the headline, &ldquo;ICE agent was not in the vehicle&rsquo;s path when he fired at driver, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-caught-them-lin-wood-outed-mysterious-georgia-operative-gabe-sterling-now-video-shows-him-admitting-he-helped-set-up-drop-boxes-and-promoted-far-left-activists-as-absentee-ballot-counters\/\" title=\"WE CAUGHT THEM: Lin Wood Outed Mysterious Georgia Operative Gabe Sterling ... Now ... ... Him Admitting He Helped Set Up Drop Boxes and Promoted Far Left Activists as Absentee Ballot Counters\">video shows<\/a>.&rdquo;)<\/p>\n<p>Right from the get-go, it&rsquo;s clear that make-pretend &ldquo;reporters&rdquo; Aaron Davis and Jonathan Baran aren&rsquo;t trying to inform their audience of what actually happened but are instead seeking to advance the Democrat Party&rsquo;s anti-ICE agenda. <\/p>\n<p>Upon navigating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2026\/01\/08\/video-ice-shooting-minneapolis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Orwellian article<\/a>, readers are immediately bombarded with the presumption that the Trump administration&rsquo;s central (and well-documented) claim &mdash; that the now-deceased woman disobeyed ICE and then hit an agent with her car &mdash; is false. In typical legacy media fashion, Davis and Baran play up such framing by asserting that their &ldquo;frame-by-frame analysis&rdquo; &ldquo;raises questions&rdquo; about the administration&rsquo;s account of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The SUV did move toward the ICE agent as he stood in front of it. But the agent was able to move out of the way and fire at least two of three shots from the side of the vehicle as it veered past him, according to the analysis,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >propaganda-style article reads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The authors then take readers on a trip through different video frames of the moment in question, in which they even call into question the documented fact that the agent was hit by the suspect&rsquo;s vehicle. With little hesitation, they write, &ldquo;Videos examined by The Post, including one shared&nbsp;on Truth Social&nbsp;by Trump, do not clearly show whether the agent is struck or how close the front of the vehicle comes to striking him.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Really? Readers are supposed to believe that?<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&rsquo;t take much searching online to find <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/robbystarbuck\/status\/2008977690783519141?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video footage<\/a> of the incident <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bonchieredstate\/status\/2009315210096771576?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">definitively<\/a> showing that the agent who fired the shots was, in fact, hit by the suspect with her car. And not just side-swiped either. It was a head-on collision that could&rsquo;ve severely injured or killed him.<\/p>\n<p>But according to Davis and Baran, this is simply all speculation. &ldquo;No need to rush to judgement until the fraud-plagued Minnesota authorities can tell us what <em>really<\/em> happened,&rdquo; or so the mindless media thinking goes. <\/p>\n<p>The reality is that Davis and Baran are journalists in the same way that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/rachel-levine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Richard Levine<\/a> is a woman. Both parties are living in a fantasy land where lies hold dominion over truth and playing dress-up is more fun than living in the real world. <\/p>\n<p>In the case of Davis and Baran, they&rsquo;re attempting to masquerade as hard-hitting reporters while actually serving as sycophants for the Democrat Party. The unfortunate news for them is, much like with Levine&rsquo;s wannabe woman gambit, they&rsquo;re really bad at pulling it off. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. 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