CRIME WAVE AT WEST INDIAN AMERICAN DAY CARNIVAL !!!!!111!!!!

The NY Daily News breaks ranks with The Media ^TM .



Distorted and inaccurate mainstream media coverage marred the West Indian American Day Carnival parade

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... The widely distributed news reports had the annual event “marred” by shootings before it began — falsely linking the carnival parade to crimes that took place up to seven hours earlier, almost 2 miles from the Eastern Parkway parade route. These bullets of blame gave millions of persons around world the false impression that the Labor Day event is chaotic and even unfit to be held. These are the facts as reported accurately by the Daily News: A gunman opened fire into a crowd at Empire Blvd. and Rogers Ave. at 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 1, fatally shooting one man, hitting and wounding another man and woman. This location is 1.4 miles away from the parade’s kickoff point and 7½ hours before the event began at 11 a.m. In a second incident, a woman was shot in the buttocks on Utica Ave. near St. Johns Place, just two blocks from the parade’s Eastern Parkway route, but still six to seven hours before the carnival procession started. Finally, a man was shot in the foot at McKeever and Sullivan Places at 4:35 a.m. — 6½ hours before parade time and 1.8 miles away from the route. ...

Note: Only one of these incidents is even in the same neighborhood.



Yes it's a rough neighborhood, but evidently everybody kept it sweet for the parade.

Quote:

... Despite the facts, the venerable Associated Press’ wire service story on the carnival parade, headlined “NY West Indian Day Parade marred by nearby slaying,” was picked up by news outlets around the world, even sparking panicked phone calls from the Caribbean to New York to check on the safety of relatives. Instead of accurately reporting three Brooklyn shootings as part of citywide Labor Day weekend gun violence which claimed four lives and wounded at least 21 people, the AP, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today.com and scores of websites used phrases such as “before the parade” and “near the parade route” to justify their accusations the parade was marred by violence. ...

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