Fox Station Apologizes For Fake ‘Kill A Cop’ Protest Chant. Tawanda Jones Speaks her peace; she has been peacefully protesting for 73 weeks (West Wednesday) after her brother Tyrone West was killed by Baltimore police while in custody in 2013.The Fox station edits her words to suggest she is protesting against police officers. The editors stops the clip and edits it to sound like the protesters are saying ” so kill a cop.” when in fact the protesters are saying.”We wont stop we can’t stop till killer cops are in cell blocks” More details below
The station apologized Monday on both its Facebook page and in an interview with one of the protestors leading the chant, Tawanda Jones, Talking Points Memo writes. “Although last night’s report reflected an honest misunderstanding of what the protesters were saying, we apologize for the error,” the post read. “We have deleted the story on our webpage and we offered to have Ms. Jones on Fox45 News at 5:00 tonight for a live interview,” it continued.
In that interview, Jones reprimanded the station several times for misrepresenting her words.“The interesting part that really gets to me is, where you guys edited it and stopped — like, how could that be a mistake?” she said. “Once you play that whole thing, you would know that’s not something that’s being said,” she added. We’re all glad that the station issued an apology, but it’s really shameful that it had to issue one in the first place. How easily one segment of society comfortably casts blame on groups they perceive as powerless. Hopefully the protest movement, sparked by police violence in the Black community, will continue to expose and eventually uproot this sinister and deeply entrenched problem in media and beyond.
