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As my colleague Shipwreckedcrew reported this morning, there was an officer-involved shooting death in Lancaster, Pennsylvania Sunday that occurred after a knife-wielding 27-year-old Ricardo Munoz charged at a Lancaster city police officer, according to bodycam footage.

For those who missed the video of the incident, please watch below:

This is the bodycam footage of the officer-involved shooting in Lancaster, PA that Black Lives Matter is rioting over. The perpetrator charged at the police officer with a knife over his head with clear intent to strike. pic.twitter.com/xD72TweQK4

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 14, 2020

The officer was reportedly responding to a 911 call from the family for help. Family members say Munoz was off his medication for schizophrenia, and that they called Crisis Intervention first in an effort to not escalate the situation. They told CBS 21 that Crisis Intervention urged them to call the police instead.

As you can see from the above video, the situation obviously escalated very quickly, from the time the officer showed up at the home to the time shots were fired. Unfortunately, some mainstream media reports on the incident have painted a false narrative of what happened.

And though violent rioters descended on the Lancaster PD quickly after the incident Sunday, the type of shoddy/incomplete reporting done by local and national media outlets that gave no context in their headlines for how and why the shooting occurred only helps fan the flames of the belligerent agitators who are just spoiling for another reason to violently attack police officers and destroy communities.

Twitter user Drew Holden put together a detailed thread with screengrabs included to document the numerous instances of headlines (and in some cases subheadlines and first paragraphs) not encapsulating the full story. The thread was too lengthy to include all of his tweets here, but you’ll get the gist of Holden’s point after reading some of what he posted:

🧵Thread🧵

We’re seeing a narrative evolve in real time in Lancaster, PA that omits the fact that the man who was shot & killed by police was actively trying to kill a police officer, even w/ bodycam evidence.

Enormously irresponsible, especially given the current climate. pic.twitter.com/BYgToAfFfG

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 14, 2020

We’ll start with @AP. They just so happened to leave out the reason why the officer was running away – a direct threat against his life – but managed to get the suspects race involved. pic.twitter.com/ZZ7XZyU4vm

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 14, 2020

Reporting from @AP got picked up all over, as it does, and recycled through the same lens.

Here’s @usnews, who manage to scrub the knife detail and focus instead on the trendy topics: police shootings and protests. pic.twitter.com/yc3oOSZHxE

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 14, 2020

Which is exactly the problem. By shoehorning a very obviously justified police use of force into the current narrative, you erase the details that matter. @PhillyInquirer did the same thing, facts be damned. pic.twitter.com/9Bi7nfDHy3

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 14, 2020

Absolutely zero mention of what precipitated the deadly shooting from @YahooNews. pic.twitter.com/wWtVQPmfeK

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 14, 2020

Here are how a couple of local news outlets reported on the story and the “protests” that followed:

I usually leave out local stations because they do a hard and thankless job, but you can already see the narrative forming here. pic.twitter.com/2H35lIJhvD

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 14, 2020

Like “Fox and Friends Weekend” co-host Will Cain did in a similar thread on why rioters feel emboldened, Holden noted that bad reporting on these situations that “obfuscates more than it reveals” makes the situation worse for everyone:

This death, like any other, is a tragedy. But that doesn’t mean it fits your world view or advances your narrative just because of a few of the details of the event.

If reporting obfuscates more than it reveals about these kinds of things, we’ll all be worse off.

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 14, 2020

Holden also speculated that this type of (in some cases willful) errant media reporting serves only to fuel “anti-police animus”:

Also, shouldn’t be lost on anyone that all of this is happening while two officers in LA are battling for their lives after someone attempted to assassinate them.

You want to know where the anti-police animus comes from? I’ve got a guess.

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 14, 2020

Both Holden and Cain are right on the money here. Between the mainstream media’s constant gaslighting on riots and Democrats helping fan the flames with their self-serving virtue-signaling about how all police departments are allegedly racist and must be defunded, the jobs of police officers and sheriff’s deputies alike have gotten much harder and much more dangerous, leaving communities less safe.

You can read Holden’s full unrolled thread, which contains other tweets I didn’t include, here.

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