CNN's Burnett Ignores Key Points Made By Guest, NY Times Video Editor, On ICE Shooting
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CNN's Burnett Ignores Key Points Made By Guest, NY Times Video Editor, On ICE Shooting

The anti-ICE insanity continues on the streets of Minneapolis, and from the mouths of Democrat elected officials, while the liberal media continues to stand firmly behind the radicals who are impeding and attacking ICE officers. On Friday, The New York Times published a piece on the shooting of Renee Good titled, "Video Analysis of  ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments". Friday evening on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront on Friday night", she welcomed in one of the contributors to that piece, who basically admitted he couldn't be totally sure about what the officer went through. Aric Toler, Visual Investigations Reporter for the Times, was one of six names on the byline of this report. He joined Burnett, who led into the segment by claiming that the analysis "sheds a lot of new light on those crucial seconds and milliseconds" during the time Renee Good was shot. After playing a a short clip from the video report, she turned to Toler. BURNETT: ..So when Trump and others in his administration are adamant that Good, quote, weaponized her vehicle... that is something that they've all used again and again. The President said (Officer) Ross was run over at the beginning, but they've said weaponized her vehicle consistently against the ICE agent. When you synchronized all the videos, including some new ones that maybe viewers haven't seen, again and again, was that what you found? TOLER: Well, the videos don't quite show that...if we had more videos, it would be nice. But from what we can see, she's trying to crank her steering wheel away from the agent, and he doesn't get, like, hit full on by the car. I mean.. President Trump said that she was run over, that she ran him over, which isn't what happened. If you watch the videos, especially the cell phone footage that came out, much of the impact that comes from is when he has his hand up against the car and it's pushed up against his body. So he's not hit full on by the front of the car. But we can't say exactly how much. If he was sideswiped or anything like that. But there's nothing that shows from the video clips, at least that she was trying to run him over or anything intentionally. That is huge. The New York Times reporter verifies that Agent Ross suffered the  impact of the car, and he can't say exactly how much impact, or how "widespread" it was! One might think that Burnett would feel the same way, but apparently she chose to focus on Toler's last sentence, claiming that the video clips he's seen does not indicate that Good was intentionally trying to hit him. BURNETT: Which is crucial. No, it's not really crucial. If the officer, who had a split second to react, was hit and felt threatened, it really doesn't matter what Good was thinking at that time. Burnett continued.   BURNETT: ..So the administration is then also pointed to the video that that many of us have seen, Aric from the officer's cell phone .. .ICE has been encouraging officers to also film interactions. And so his phone jerks up... And they're saying, well, that's because he was in danger, right? He lost control of his phone. That's that's what they're saying. Okay. So you've gone through that. Aric, let me show your analysis there TOLER: Well, it appears the agent's getting knocked over. We can see that's not the case from the other angle, which shows he's standing with his hand near the headlight, his torso and legs away from the vehicle. In the cell phone footage, the agent's face flashes on screen. Then it goes black. The other angle shows us why. We can see the agent's foot sliding, his hand bracing against the SUV and his arm getting pressed into his chest. It is impossible to determine if this is happening because of the SUV's movement or the icy asphalt, or more likely, both. BURNETT: Also a crucial conclusion there, the ice. Whoa! The video says "It is impossible to determine if this is happening because of the SUV's movement or the icy asphalt, or more likely, both." Did Burnett not hear this? TOLER: ..The phone, he's holding his hand out the phone and it flips up because it hits up. And so it points up sky, but he's still on his feet... But it's important here when you think about kind of deconstructing exactly what happened. What parts of his body were touched and not touched and hit and not hit by the vehicle. And we've done the best we could of kind of with all the available evidence of showing that. BURNETT: .. It's important somebody is doing it. You know, we wish there were there were a full investigation that would give everybody in this country the confidence... Toler said his team did "the best we could."  Burnett seems to ignore the fact the her guest is attempting to acknowledge that piecing these videos together is hard work, and the analysis of them, may not paint a totally, 100% accurate picture of what lead up to those shots being fired. That automatically gives the benefit of the doubt to the officer, who had a split second to react, which is certainly not the desired narrative.