As the Media Research Center's Justine Brooke Murray has pointed out, the video of an unprovoked black man murdering the white woman on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, was inconvenient for those who want to convince Americans that white supremacy is their greatest threat.
After initially ignoring the murder, they pulled the "conservatives pounce" card when they were forced to talk about it. Axios, Murray says, led the way.
"They weren't outraged that this white girl was murdered in cold blood over her race," she submits. "They were outraged because there was actual surveillance footage."
Eventually, most of the legacy media went the same direction.
"Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, and other Trump-aligned figures succeeded in making this senseless death a symbol of big city crime," said CNN's Brian Stelter.
He accused them, "MAGA media," of using the suspect's race to fuel outrage and using the story to push for harsher punishments and more incarcerations of black people.
These same outlets were quick to make a racial claim when Daniel Penny, a white former U.S. Marine, acted to protect a New York Subway car from a black man who was threatening to "kill everybody."
"They covered him about 100 times," Murray recalls. "This poor Ukrainian woman, they wrote about her once or twice … only after the video surfaced around the internet."
She does not think there will ever be enough evidence, no matter how jarring, for the leftist media to quit peddling their false narrative.
"The legacy media either will cover it up, claim it's the mental health crisis, or they might even condone it," she concludes.
