Thread by @lhfang

Bouie is a fabulist when it comes to policing and crime, lots of examples.

Here he invents a conspiracy that police murdered Joshua Brown as a cover up in the Guyger trial. Not remotely true, Brown was killed in a drug deal, his killers confessed.

https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1181666094882398209

Here's his tweet last year falsely claiming that Michael Reinoehl, the antifa guy who murdered a pro-Trump supporter in Portland, was some type of conservative "emulating Kyle Rittenhouse"

Here's a more sneaky deception. Of course the U.S. has an overall lower rate, but violent crime is highly concentrated in working class areas avoided by the elite media. Baltimore has a higher murder rate than San Pedro Sula, the murder capital of Honduras

https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1385646871490740234

Bouie claims that it's not true that "more than 60" police were intentionally murdered last year, but only included gun homicide, not vehicular or assault related murders of police. Police run down or dragged to death by cars brings the 2020 total to 67.

https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1385401889785851907

The first tweet in this thread Bouie claims there's no way Joshua Brown would be murdered over a weed deal w/only $10k worth of drugs. That's incredibly out of touch, people are killed on the streets over disputes over a fraction of that amount literally every day in America.

We have too many op-ed writers in elite bubbles with zero evidence-based reporting experience. Go out to working class communities and gather evidence independently, stop playing to the crowd by offering simplistic political narratives.