1/ Wow @npr just reduced Kansas City’s @QuintonLucasKC quote in the news briefs to be the exact opposite of the thrust of the long interview with him that THEY CONDUCTED in the fuller segment. Sloppy and reckless.
2/ in the full interview with @rachelnpr, the mayor makes clear that 1) he learned of feds in city from twitter 2) wishes they would concentrate on illegal gun sales and cross-state lines gun flows 3) that they had to row back claims of arrests from 200 to 1 ...
3/ and that that arrest was actually conducted by a suburban police department 4) he worried about Mission creep and that this was an election stunt. So the “ok with help” came without about fifty levels of shade. Something you wouldn’t know if you just heard the news roundup...
4/ so a bunch of NPR listeners who didn’t hear the full interview have been fooled into thinking KC mayor is cool with federal troops. Uh, no. Here is the full interview npr.org/2020/07/23/894…
5/ of you had to reduce the thrust of that interview to a phrase it should be more like “KC mayor questions scope/motives/efficacy of federal forces in his city” or “wishes they would crack down on gun sales”
6/ so now my local NPR affiliate is bouncing off that news brief by saying “well, KC’s mayor might welcome federal agents, but Oakland’s does not” 🤦♀️
Anyway the full interview is good, take a listen npr.org/2020/07/23/894…
Anyway the full interview is good, take a listen npr.org/2020/07/23/894…
