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What you are about to read and watch is stranger than fiction. It's so racist and so outrageous, that people are questioning whether or not it's satire from The Onion. It's real though, and that's what is so shocking and heartbreaking about the whole ordeal.
Getting their picture taken above is the mayor of Minneapolis, Betsy Hodges, with Navell Gordon, a young volunteer from the respected Twin Cities charity, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change.
To better understand the context, please take just one minute to watch the beginning of the video below. Pay particular attention at 0:32-0:39 as Navell and Mayor Hodges share a clumsy "how do we pose in this photo together" moment.
Imagine, then, the shock, utter disappointment, and disgust when the local ABC news affiliate, KSTP ran a news story on Thursday night claiming that Mayor Hodges dangerously flashed a gang sign with a known criminal and has put officers in harms way. Follow the trail below.
First, ABC reporter Jay Kolls wrote the following tweets before the news story ran live on Thursday night.
Then, the story ran with this insane headline, but the video below it is worse than you could EVER imagine!.
You have to watch this video to believe it. It's so outrageous and has such a phony feel to it that it seems almost like a practical joke—except it's completely real. In it, current and retired police officers claim that Mayor Hodges has put the safety of officers in serious risk by her deliberate and flagrant action.
But what KSTP isn't telling you in this news story is that the Minneapolis chief of police, Janee Harteau, was actually there with Navell and Mayor Hodges the entire time. Here they are in a picture together. That's the chief on the far left.
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/11...ate-may-be-the-most-racist-news-story-of-2014
Getting their picture taken above is the mayor of Minneapolis, Betsy Hodges, with Navell Gordon, a young volunteer from the respected Twin Cities charity, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change.
To better understand the context, please take just one minute to watch the beginning of the video below. Pay particular attention at 0:32-0:39 as Navell and Mayor Hodges share a clumsy "how do we pose in this photo together" moment.
Imagine, then, the shock, utter disappointment, and disgust when the local ABC news affiliate, KSTP ran a news story on Thursday night claiming that Mayor Hodges dangerously flashed a gang sign with a known criminal and has put officers in harms way. Follow the trail below.
First, ABC reporter Jay Kolls wrote the following tweets before the news story ran live on Thursday night.
Then, the story ran with this insane headline, but the video below it is worse than you could EVER imagine!.
You have to watch this video to believe it. It's so outrageous and has such a phony feel to it that it seems almost like a practical joke—except it's completely real. In it, current and retired police officers claim that Mayor Hodges has put the safety of officers in serious risk by her deliberate and flagrant action.
But what KSTP isn't telling you in this news story is that the Minneapolis chief of police, Janee Harteau, was actually there with Navell and Mayor Hodges the entire time. Here they are in a picture together. That's the chief on the far left.
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/11...ate-may-be-the-most-racist-news-story-of-2014
