Here's What's True About the Shooting of Two LA Deputies
At worst, it was a purposeful attempt to discredit an initiative by the NFL to recognize systemic racism by erroneously linking it to the gathering outside the California medical facility. Any social media post that claimed "the NFL will honor and praise the organization that stood out outside hospital chanting" was at best a misleading attempting to connect dots that didn't exist. While some football players were indeed supporters or leaders of the BLM movement, no evidence linked them or the league with the events in Los Angeles. BLACK LIVES MATTER AND THE COMPLICIT MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS, ATHLETES, AND ENTERTAINERS ARE TO BLAME."īelow, we unpack that claim - which is ultimately a product of an expansive fear-mongering campaign by deceptive media sources to paint the BLM movement as a social force that doesn't match reality.Īdditionally, hours after the Compton shooting, another layer to the controversy emerged: Reports on social media alleged BLM protesters taunted law enforcement officers standing guard outside the hospital where the deputies were receiving medical treatment, and blocked emergency access to the facility: Sharing the video with her roughly 2.6 million followers, for example, conservative provocateur Candace Owens wrote on Twitter: Numerous viewers of the seven-second clip believed the apparent ambush - which sent the deputies to the hospital in critical condition - was a result of the momentum among civil rights activists to eliminate unjust killings of Black Americans by authorities, also known as the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, as well as supporters of it. While the sheriff's department said protesters at one point blocked entrances and exits at the hospital, no videos or photos confirmed that was the case.ĭuring America's growing political divide over policing, a video surfaced online in September 2020 showing a gunman shooting two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies in the head as they sat in a squad car.
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