CNN admits that they mischaracterized Sherelle Smith’s comments as a call for peace:
We shorthanded sister’s quote. Unintentionally gave the impression she was calling for peace everywhere. Correction: https://t.co/CUroBoxj60
— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) August 16, 2016
A recent report by CNN features a deceptively edited clip of Sherelle Smith — sister to Sylville Smith, the armed man shot by Milwaukee Police — making it look as if she was calling for peace on the streets in her neighborhood.
But a closer look at all her comments — most of which were edited out by CNN — reveals that rather than merely calling for an end to the destruction in her own neighborhood, she also ordered rioters to take their violence and destruction to the suburbs.
Titling its report “Residents try to heal,” CNN slipped in a few seconds of the words uttered by Sherelle Smith, a sister of the 23-year-old black man shot by an African American Milwaukee Police officer on Saturday. The young woman’s edited comments make it seem as if she was calling for peace, Newsbusters noted.
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