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Matt Lauer believes all black people look the same, uses Freddie Gray protest images instead of Walter Scott

Matt Lauer believes all black people look the same, uses Freddie Gray protest images instead of Walter Scott

Last updated on: December 7, 2016 at 12:23 pm by Sheriff David Clarke, Jr.

Matt Lauer believes all black people look the same, uses Freddie Gray protest images instead of Walter Scott 2016-12-07T12:23:17-05:00 Sheriff David Clarke, Jr.

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The Today show must think all black people look alike. Recently, they aired a segment about how a judge granted a mistrial for former police officer Michael Slager when a jury failed to deliver a unanimous verdict on the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man named Walter Scott. However, a Charleston, South Carolina prosecutor is promising to retry the case, which caused NBC’s Matt Lauer to soothingly say, “community leaders are urging calm” over this process.

“Urging calm?”

As Lauer’s words were spoken, images of protests in the streets down there in Charleston rolled.

But wait just one minute. Eagle eyed South Carolina senator Larry Grooms points out that the news segment proves the media isn’t interested in peace: the Today show used images from Baltimore protests to make it look like there were protests in Charleston.

There weren’t.

“I am proud of my home and it angers me when media folks like our friends at the Today Show project false and misleading images of my home,” Sen. Grooms told me. “After the mistrial, there was no racial unrest and there were no protests in the streets. However, the Today Show producers decided that there should be. When they aired their story about the mistrial, they showed images of an April 2015 protest that took place in Baltimore MD.”

Here’s a screenshot of the Today Show story, which Lauer pretended showed images of protests for Walter Scott.

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Here’s a photo from the Baltimore Sun of the real protest for Freddie Gray.

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Walter Scott, Freddie Gray. I guess The Today Show just can’t keep it all straight.

Either the entire Baltimore protest group reconfigured in the same clothes and order down in South Carolina, or the Today show is ENCOURAGING racial strife while pretending to fight it.

Dear Today Show, there is a difference between Charleston, South Carolina and Baltimore, Maryland.

Sen. Grooms even pointed out that “The Baltimore picture was even photoshopped to remove the slogans on the protesters signs.”

No surprise there.

“Behold Charleston as the producers want it to look,” he wrote. “Not as it actually is.”

Yet another insightful look at why you can’t trust the mainstream media.

Click continue to see the Today show’s misleading segment.

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